NO more waiting for water: The Maylands Waterland will finally be wet again with the taps to be turned on this October 5 at 11am.  The facility had to be closed in 2019 due to old age and Bayswater council originally hoped the renovations would be done by the end of summer last year. Supply…

THE grand 120-year-old Desborough House in West Perth is in line to be demolished. The mansion’s owners have lodged an application with Perth council to flatten the entire block.  Dersborough House, on the hill at 1161 Hay Street, was designed by architect and former Subiaco mayor Austin Bastow around 1900 and built for real estate agent…

LEEDERVILLE welcomes the WAFL grand final for the first time this weekend, turning into a carnival town to welcome fans for the West Perth v Claremont clash.  The WAFL’s first choice was Optus Stadium due to its bigger capacity, having fitted in near 30,000 people for the 2021 grand final. But that stadium’s busy hosting…

CONDITIONS at the City of Perth have improved slightly since the council’s suspension in 2018, but staff are still reluctant to recommend it to other workers. The latest staff satisfaction survey found 69 per cent considered the council an “excellent”, “good”, or “okay” place to work; up from 63 per cent in 2020.  But only 14…

Perth City Council Ordinary Council Meeting September 27, 2022 A NEW ‘elegant’ adult store can open up at 129 Barrack Street after winning approval from Perth council. Some neighbours were concerned Pink Rabbit Adult Boutique might bring in some unsavoury customers, but the owner assured the council they wanted to run a tasteful shop that…

ROBERTSON PARK is in the running to become an incubator of tennis talent, with Vincent council hoping to woo Tennis West into investing in six clay courts. Tennis West has been scouting venues around the city to find a place to build six new clay courts and reckons Robertson Park is looking like the best…

IN this week’s column from the Vincent Local History Centre we have the story of the Chinese immigrants who set up Perth’s early market gardens that were once abundant through the inner-city suburbs.  EARLY settlers established the first commercial vegetable gardens in Perth shortly after 1829.   Decades later in the 1880s, small but increasing…

A “WIND telephone” has been installed at Claughton Reserve for bereaved people to feel closer to lost loved ones. The project was driven by Bayswater resident Merle Taylor, whose son Chris died in his sleep in 2018 aged 34.  She had heard about the concept of the Japanese “kaze no denwa” (phone of the wind)…

PERTH lord mayor Basil Zempilas wants to bring more troops into the CBD, by giving the 10th Light Horse Regiment ‘freedom of entry’ for an honour march. Granting freedom of entry is a rare honour and the highest accolade a local government can confer on a military unit.  The convention against armies entering towns stems…

PLANNING minister Rita Saffioti has overruled Perth council to allow Ruah to move its drop-in centre in Northbridge. The centre is on Shenton Street opposite Russell Square but Ruah wants to build a seven-storey centre for women and children escaping domestic violence. To free up the site, the drop-in centre will now move 270 metres…