Can you believe it?

It's just over 12-months since Save Perth HiIls' 2025 Rally where more than 2,000 of our awesome Community gathered at Mundaring's Sculpture Park to listen to hopeful-politicians tell us, in 60 seconds, how they planned to save North $toneville's 60,000 trees earmarked for bulldozing by the landowner, WA's Anglican Church.

Of course 'Nigel $atterley's' surprise appearance was a show stopper - keeping the politicians to time with his 60-second chainsaw stop-watch!

Over the next few weeks we'll revisit some notable Rally highlights: the wit, wisdom - and warnings, of our supporters and experts who understand proposed North $toneville's increasing bushfire dangers and irreversible environmental destruction across the unprecedented scale of 530 hectares of Perth Hills' natural landscape.

In coming weeks Save Perth Hills will be preparing our legal response to Satterley's attempt to re-open its appeal. (Please refer to our previous post for details)

In the meantime, stay tuned! We have some exciting things planned for you to get involved and fly the Save Perth Hills flag high - and loud!

Our Campaign account is open 24/7 if you feel you can contribute to our fight... HUGE THANK YOUs to all of you who've recently donated - every single cent is SO greatly appreciated.

Tree Keeper Donations: www.saveperthhills.net

Bendigo Bank - BSB - 633000 - Account 160715942

Containers for Change: SPH ID-C1030729

$ATTERLEY SEEKS TO RE-OPEN APPEAL

$atterley wants to introduce more information in its fight to overturn decades of opposition to its proposed North $toneville development in Perth’s Hills.

$atterley's appeal, before WA's State Administrative Tribunal (SAT), ran across 4 months last year. Judge Jackson reserved his decision on December 11.

Now, $atterley has requested to re-open the case, and will lodge reasons with SAT by February 27th.

Lawyers for Save Perth Hills, WA’s Planning Commission (WAPC) and Mundaring Shire will then review Satterley’s request, and SAT will determine, in late March, whether to re-open the case and consider the new material - which would delay the long awaited decision-making process.

$atterley's request comes as dangerous bushfires have burned through thousands of hectares and close to hundreds of homes, including in Perth's Hills, over this Summer.

For the record:

Save Perth Hills’ North $toneville battle is in its 35th year.

Anglican Church landowner has FAILED for 35 years to get the plan 'right'

$atterley has FAILED for 11 years to get the plan ‘right’

Mundaring Shire & WAPC have REJECTED it 3 times since 2020

The case has spent 6 unresolved years in WA's State Tribunal.

And in case you're wondering...

Save Perth Hills will never, ever give up.

We remember Wooroloo 2021

We advise this post references bushfire trauma and loss.

Today, again, we unite in remembrance of bushfire disasters that have profoundly shaped our Hills' Community.

Today, February 1st marks the Wooroloo Bushfires' 5th anniversary, Perth Hills' worst bushfire catastrophe - that burnt for 3 weeks.

87 homes lost. Hundreds displaced.

Some yet to find their way back...

Our collective memory honours all who have cause to remember 1/2/2021, along with other bushfires that have brought our Community incalculable loss and trauma, including December 2023, December 2021, and January 2014, 2008 and 2003...

With more frequent and severe bushfires, Save Perth Hills has written three significant letters to Premier Roger Cook, since November, seeking to discuss Perth's worsening bushfire crisis, and specifically, the unacknowledged, permanent 'human' fallout.

Whichever way the pending State Tribunal's decision falls on $atterley and the Anglican Church's proposed 'North $toneville', we must define how we plan and prepare for disasters capable of inflicting immeasurable, lifelong impacts - on people.

We call on the Premier - please, respond to our letters, they're really important. And please meet with us - to learn from our Community’s experience, to help shape a safer future for us all...

Today, and always, we remember...