Houses, no trees

A letter in The West featured by our friends at Melville Tree Canopy Advocates…

Acutely relevant for our own circumstances as $atterley and WA’s Anglican Church Diocese push ahead, blindly and arrogantly, in their appeal to enable a dangerous and destructive quest to bulldoze 60,000 trees at Stoneville, and replace them with black bitumised networks of roads for 3000+ people.

Fortunately - our Local Govt, Mundaring Shire Council, AND the WA Planning Commission oppose this crazy plan - but our planning process allows $atterley seemingly endless appeals - which is what we face right now.

Stick with us folks - we can - and must - stop this madness…

Shift away from Urban townsites

The ‘increasing ‘shift away from Urban townsites’ in Mundaring Shire’s Hills, features in a double article in this week’s Echo Newspaper.

A great example of Council and Community unity, on the desire for sustainable and safer planning in our Hills.

It comes as the second Fire Weather Warning in a week is issued for the Hills with 80kms winds forecast Friday 22 March. A Total Fire Ban and Extreme Fire Danger are also in place.

This week’s intense Red Hill Fire rapidly escalated into a massive blaze putting thousands on high alert.

It’s still smouldering.

And so, again, we urge $atterley and the Anglican Church to heed the warnings, follow the common sense lead of other developers, and put people ahead of your profits.

Abandon your dangerous 1990s Urban notion of cramming thousands of people inside an Extreme Bushfire Zone.

New plan leaves Satterley high and dry.

Great coverage in WAtoday.com.au about Mundaring Shire Council’s support for a ‘Rural Residential’ plan for North PARKERVILLE - and endorsement for ‘lower-density and a shift away from Urban.’

This land is across the road from proposed URBAN North $toneville.

Within 3 hours of WA Today’s report being published, $atterley countered with an article in a subscription-only on-line business news feed announcing that $atterley is ‘discussing with WA’s Planning Commission’, how to progress North $toneville - and that 76-year old Nigel $atterley intends to ‘work until he dies.’

Let’s be very clear here…

Unlike Nigel, SPH has no ‘use-by-date’.

Unlike Nigel, when it comes to North $toneville, we’re here for ‘the longest’ run - 33 years and counting…

Take a read of the attached - and please, dig deep, if you can, to support ‘our longest run’ - to Save Perth Hills!

Donation details - Bendigo Bank

BSB 633000 Account 160715942

Containers For Change: Save Perth Hills

Number 10307279