General Meeting 8th August

Save Perth Hills

WHAT'S NEXT with Save Perth Hills? The North $toneville saga is not over yet! Join us for our General Meeting Sunday the 8th of August 2pm-3pm @ Mundaring Arena (Bendigo Room) for: - a full update of Satterley and the Anglican Church’s appeal - the latest on our Petition > our call for an open and public Wooroloo Bushfire Inquiry, and; - Save Perth Hills’ bid to change the site back to a safer ‘rural’ zoning. We have LOTS to tell you and LOTS to share and celebrate! Save Perth Hills and the community have achieved so much together! To register your attendance please visit the Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1DY7GD9D0 and mark yourself as 'going'. You can also send an email to saveperthhillsinc@gmail.com See you on the 8th of August! Let’s keep Saving Perth’s Hills

Arrest Made

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TIME FOR THAT BUSHFIRE INQUIRY PREMIER McGOWAN

THANK YOU Greg Rankine , local vollie and Stoneville resident, for speaking up on behalf of bushfire prone communities, on 7 News last night.

Given the developments around the alleged cause of the Wooroloo Bushfire, there must be NO MORE DELAYS by the Government to call a full and open PUBLIC Inquiry.

The court case will procced. But it does NOT prevent an Inquiry into the management of this catastrophic blaze, and what should be done differently next time… especially given WA’s Bushfire Planning Framework is currently under review.

Bushfire prone communities, such as ours, MUST BE ARMED with the latest information. Our next Bushfire Season is less than 12 weeks away.

The Keelty Report, into Roleystone’s 2011 bushfire, sparked by a person using an angle grinder, was given Royal Commission powers, and was completed within 6 months of that disaster. It told State Parliament, in 2011, about WA’s ‘inadequate ability to minimise bushfire risk’, with the uncanny warning - ‘potential for another Roleystone remains'. Head of the-then FESA was sacked after that scathing Report.

Wooroloo Bushfire was the Perth Hills’ biggest bushfire, and burned to Perth’s suburban fringe. As Greg Rankine said, our region is 'vulnerable and volatile' - to all kinds of bushfire threats.

An Inquiry is IMPERATIVE. There are no excuses left.

Wooroloo bushfire: Man arrested after angle grinder sparked WA fires that destroyed 86 homes | 7NEWS

July News

Media Release

It has been 12 months today since the WA Planning Commission rejected proposed North $toneville. It was refused largely on the basis that $atterley did not convince the Commission that the proposal meets the intent and objectives of State Planning Policy 3.7 Planning in Bushfire Prone Areas. 1 year on and $atterley pushes on with appealing that decision through mediation at the State Administrative Tribunal, despite the worst Perth Hills bushfire in living memory (Feb 2021). In the meantime, Save Perth Hills has gone back to the WA Planning Commission seeking to have the land zoned back to rural. A decision is still pending but we are encouraged by the precautionary approach of the WAPC pending further advice.