SPOT THE ERRORS?

You're looking at a critical PLANNING DEPT map, to help WA’s Planning Commission decide if a potentially dangerous development - RIGHT NEXT DOOR to proposed North $toneville, should be approved. This plan, called ‘SP79’, belongs to Parkerville Children and Youth Care - part of the Anglican Church, which owns North Stoneville next door. The plan is for 56 houses, crammed into Kilburn Rd, an Extreme Bushfire Zone, 56 sewerage systems (ATUs) just 30 METRES from Clutterbuck Creek, ZERO Public Open Space, and limited emergency exits for 240 people onto RURAL Roland Rd. (by the way - Mundaring Council rejected it - so the WAPC gets to decide). Can you see the mapping mistakes ‘Toodyay Rd’ is NOT Toodyay Road! It’s just little old ‘Woolhouse Lane’ (old Cameron Rd). And ‘Great Eastern Highway’ - is the VERY RURAL - RILEY ROAD! North $toneville is circled as if it’s a handful of hectares - not 555!!! But it also appears North $toneville reaches Toodyay Rd! And SP79 looks almost as BIG as North Stoneville! And Mundaring is NOT 4 kms away - it's AT LEAST 6-8 KMS! These errors are more than ‘typos’ They’re seriously misleading. FALSE impressions about vital bushfire escape options. Fortunately, Save Perth Hills was in the WAPC opposing this plan - and exposed these unacceptable errors. We asked the WAPC to DEFER A DECISION on SP79 because the Wooroloo Bushfire findings are due in just 2 weeks. And WA’s significant Bushfire Planning Review is due in just a couple of months. These important inquiries will help to ensure this questionable plan meets the most up to date bushfire standards. But - at the end of the day - it should NOT rest with the Community, or Save Perth Hills, to ensure our State’s Planners have ACCURATE DATA on which to make decisions on which LIVES DEPEND. It really makes you wonder - what else have they got wrong???

30 years into the North Stoneville Saga, and we like to think nothing can surprise us anymore...

We're back at the pub

...A N D... we're back at the pub This time we're asking about Property Developers and Councillors. Of particular interest is $atterley’s 2021 Head-Hunting Drive! It’s almost 3 years since $atterley and the Anglican Church imposed their dangerous and destructive North $toneville plan on our Community. Their timeline was to build... THIS YEAR! (2021...)

$atterley and his Anglican mates clearly under-estimated the POWER of our pesky Community!

Nevertheless, we’ve noticed $atterley is recruiting to strengthen its ‘front line’. Let’s begin with Chontelle Stone who is a City of Cockburn Councillor. Ms Stone has JUST been appointed to coordinate $atterley’s ‘Community Development and Social Media’. (Nov 10). We’re not suggesting Ms Stone has done anything wrong - the question here is - should property developers be allowed to recruit councillors who are privy to confidential and privileged information often related to property development?

*What do YOU think?* Should Property Developers be banned from head-hunting Councillors? Do you think CONFLICTS OF INTEREST might arise in a Councillor - Developer relationship? Does Satterley’s appointment of Ms Stone pass the Pub Test?

We look forward to your ‘polite’ observations!

Change is in the Air?

A 720 ABC Radio Planning Forum this week heard that Perth’s urban sprawl is over... just as well, given it is an embarrassing 150kms long from (Dawesville to Two Rocks). WA’s NEW planning mantra is Build UP not OUT, and around train stations connected to transport hubs. So where does this leave ‘North $toneville’ - apart from being 26 kms away from the nearest train station? Planning Minister Rita Saffioti said on the show: We can’t continue building new suburbs... the environmental impact of clearing hectares for new housing is significant... Does Rita mean, for example, North $toneville’s 200+ bush hectares (more than half of Kings Park) earmarked for bulldozing for $atterley’s 1500 houses and 4000+ people? Is this ANOTHER nail in North $toneville’s coffin? We all know the plan is dangerous and destructive - but with this new urban approach for our city, it also looks like a dinosaur Outa date! Outa step! Outa time!! C’mon $atterley - save your reputation, and our lives. It’s time to pack up your appeal, and your Anglican Church business partner!

Check out the link and listen for yourselves… 3.40 –52 “…I don’t think we can just continue to build new suburbs because the impact, and a lot of people talk about the environmental impact of density, but the environmental impact of clearing hectares for new housing is also significant.”

Spotlight forum: density and development in Perth suburbs - Mornings - ABC Radio