Important Update

This Tuesday evening, December 10, Mundaring Shire Council will consider declaring a Climate Change Emergency.

THIS is important...

If you can, please join us at 6.30pm tomorrow night, at the Shire offices. Mundaring is WA’s highest fire risk shire and Australia’s 5th highest.

Save Perth Hills will make a deputation pushing for a joint Shire-Council statement to all our politicians and planning authorities - including the WA Planning Commission, that we all need to step back, immediately, and carefully consider how to plan safely and appropriately in volatile environments like ours - especially as the Eastern States’ fires continue to burn.

Our weather records are tumbling - hottest, driest, longest, earliest...

WHY is this important? A declaration would help consolidate our position that Perth’s Hills are no place for suburban style developments, like the Satterley and Anglican Church proposal of ‘North Stoneville’, that would see thousands more people living in extreme and proven fire zones.

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Nature by Nathan: https://www.naturebynathan.com/perth#3

Seven West Media:

https://watch.thewest.com.au/show/pub-104661

🍻 Perth Hills Pub Test #4 🍻

…And so it continues… Tonight we invite the WA Planning Commission’s Lino Lacomella to the pub.

We ask, why is somebody so connected to the property industry in WA able to sit as a decision maker on the Statutory Planning Committee at the WAPC? The role of this committee as defined on the WAPC’s website is:

“The committee is the WAPC’s regulatory decision-making body. Its functions include approval of the subdivision of land, approval of leases and licences, approval of strata schemes, advice to the Minister on local government planning schemes and scheme amendments, and the determination of certain development applications under the Metropolitan Region Scheme.”

QUESTION: Does this ☝️ PASS the Pub Test?

Additionally, and perhaps, for us, importantly, Mr Lacomella has worked with Satterley in the past 😳. KPA Architects (where Mr Lacomella is a Senior Consultant), put together the design for the Austin Lakes Shopping Centre which is a Satterley development. Given this former relationship, will Mr Lacomella give us a fair go in the decision over proposed North Stoneville?

QUESTION: Does this ☝️ PASS the Pub Test?

We’re sorry to say… there are even more Pub Tests to come… stay tuned folks.

**NB** To lodge any formal complaint about your feelings on this matter, we recommend you go through the WA Ombudsman.

http://www.ombudsman.wa.gov.au/Complaints/Complaint_Form.htm

References

https://linoiacomella.com/about-lino/

https://www.propertycouncil.com.au/Web/Content/Media_Release/WA/2018/Lino_Iacomella_to_step_down_from_Property_Council.aspx

https://www.dplh.wa.gov.au/about/the-wapc/wapc-board-and-committees

https://kpa-architects.com/pages/austin-lakes-shopping-centre/

https://kpa-architects.com/pages/lino-iacomella/

Want to take action?

For anyone interested in making a formal complaint about your feelings on the Pub Tests, we recommend you go through the WA Ombudsman. Here's the link to the on-line complaint form. It’s a bit of a process - but it's the proper process - and after all, that's exactly what we're seeking here - proper process.

Go to it! We’d love to hear how it goes:

http://www.ombudsman.wa.gov.au/Complaints/Complaint_Form.htm