What's Next?

Sooooo…. You all might be wondering, what’s next with “proposed” North $toneville AKA SP34….?

We have learned that the West Australian Planning Commi$$ion has announced they will be increasing the usual amount of time to consider the proposal by $atterley…. We understand that the time to deliberate on the proposal has been extended to the 30th April. The WAPC has cited the plan by $atterley as ‘complex’….

We ask, WHY?

Why the extension…? In fact, WHY even consider “complex” proposals like North Stoneville, in highly volatile environments, with MASSIVE fire safety concerns, while fires burn and destroy communities and environments, around the country? WHY?

SAVE the DATES:

As you all know, this planning DISASTER is not over. So please add these upcoming dates to your calendar.

📅 Monday 3rd February: THE annual electors meeting Shire of Mundaring. This is your chance to present a deputation to the elected members... with 2020 highlighting the threats of fire, there are just a few issues worth raising... https://www.mundaring.wa.gov.au/News/Pages/Annual%20Report%20and%20Annual%20Electors%27%20Meeting.aspx

📅 Saturday 8th February: Mundaring Twilight Market - Save Perth Hills will be there.

📅 Sunday 15th March (morning): TBA (you won’t want to miss this one)

Pub Test #6

Hey everyone! There really shouldn’t be this many pub tests…. One would be enough 🥴 but here we are with NUMBER SIX…. And we think it might open your eyes very wide indeed...

The UDIA Awards showcase the work being done by private developers. That is fair enough….

But, what seems potentially unfair is that the awards are sponsored by the WAPC… 😳 at Bunker Bay Resort... The WAPC are THE Platinum Sponsor.

In September this year, Satterley Property Group received several UDIA awards and Ray Stokes, Satterley’s Chief Planner - of North Stoneville, and FORMER Secretary of WAPC – with an association going back to at least 2002 on the North Stoneville plan, was awarded the most ‘coveted award’ of all - Life Membership of the UDIA.

We assert the WAPC, overall, is irrevocably conflicted via its “Platinum Sponsorship’ of this annual event which is also not in the interests of WA taxpayers. The WAPC is required to be an objective statutory planning authority, not an award sponsor for a private organisation that exists to acknowledge, promote, support and benefit from private urban development that can require formal approval of the WAPC - such as Satterley and Ray Stokes’ North Stoneville proposal!

Do we even need to ASK? Does this ☝️ PASS the Pub Test?

P.S. As we reported in Pub Test #3 🍺 Jane Bennett, is a WAPC Commission member and a high ranking member of the UDIA WA Council .

References:

https://satterley.com.au/about-satterley/our-awards

https://twitter.com/UDIA_WA

https://www.udiawa.com.au/blog/industry-issues-26-09-2019/

https://www.udiawa.com.au/buyers/awards-for-excellence/

Matthew Hughes’s letter to the Echo Newspaper

We agree Matthew Hughes Member for Kalamunda - well done for your presence, your interest and your leadership on this issue. Thank you too for encouraging this amazing Perth Hills community to keep going. WE WILL - stay tuned for updates in 2020 ⚡️

...One concern though... we’re not sure we’ll get a FAIR GO from the WA Planning Commission... Every time we take the pulse of the community and run a pub test 🍺 ...it seems that several members could be conflicted? Can you help look into that?

In the Echo Newspaper today, I provided some clarity on the controversial Structure Plan 34 for the North Stoneville townsite. - Matthew Hughes