THE burgeoning sport of bicycle polo is looking for a new home. Perth Cycle Polo player Scott D’Mello says players set up at carparks around Mt Lawley but they’d like something more official now the newly created sport is reaching the big time. “We had the Australasian championships in Perth last year and we had…

  KINGS PARK authorities have removed the tree where Barbara Campbell, 87, buried the ashes of her daughter Penny Easton in 1992. Easton was the Perth lawyer who killed herself after becoming embroiled in a political scandal that was to consume Carmen Lawrence’s Labor government and become known as the Easton Affair. Having scattered her…

Keen on the right name SEEMING to be in chit-chat with Stirling’s top brass and the Mount Lawley MP Michael Sutherland is “Stuart Keenan MP…” (page 2; Camera frenzy caption, May 18, 2013). Mr Keenan has previously evaded my radar, as the saying goes. My chattering friends wonder how often he’s mistaken for Mt Lawley’s…

THE Maylands Brickworks is set to get some TLC. Bayswater city council has adopted a conservation plan for the site—which has fallen into disrepair—and has pencilled in $80,000 on urgent maintenance in this year’s budget. The site, which is on the National Trust and state heritage lists, has the only remaining Hoffman Kiln in WA.…

THE head of Bayswater’s ratepayers association is fuming public money is going towards a cocktail party organised by a council body. Tony Green says the Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council’s biennial networking function at the WA Ballet centre this weekend is “meaningless”. The EMRC, which provides waste and environmental services for six member councils including Bayswater,…

ALANNAH MACTIERNAN says she didn’t know most of the people selected for a working group a local trader claims was “handpicked” by the mayor. Stuart Lofthouse, who runs Greens and Co on Oxford Street, made the claim at last week’s council meeting, where he also took a swipe at the council’s advertising of the group.…

BAYSWATER Sports Club has been given three months to get its house in order or risk losing its lease on Uppercrest reserve. Bayswater council says it’s sick of infighting between the local football and cricket clubs, which has paralysed the umbrella organisation. The BSC has three months to create a new club constitution, hold an…

VINCENT city council will test out its employees’ underarm deodorants later this year when it turns off the air-conditioning mid-summer. As part of a new high-tech energy saving program, energy management company EnerNOC will pay the city about $10,000 annually to switch off the air-con if the state’s electricity grid gets overwhelmed. EnerNOC recoups costs…

PERTH city council’s parking committee has been abolished. The committee’s chair Lyndon Rodgers claims the move is designed to unseat him because of tensions with fellow committee members James Limnios and Lily Chen. Cr Limnios says Cr Rodgers runs meetings inefficiently and cuts off dissenters, but along with Cr Chen he maintains it’s about resources…

PERTH councillors have approved a 12-storey mixed development on Aberdeen Street. The project drew criticism from the Deen Hotel and local entertainment venue advocate BIGN over concerns new residents would complain about noise and threaten the hotel’s existence. Cr James Limnios said designers Baltinas Architecture had been diligent in consulting with local businesses, understood the…