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

Our Eagles

Thank you to our local Eagle 🦅 expert, Simon Cherriman. This is AMAZING data which shows scientifically, that Satterley would be destroying know Wedge-Tailed Eagle habit should proposed North Stoneville be allowed to proceed. We can do better than continued urban sprawl which wipes out biodiversity...

Message from Simon Cherriman

HEADS UP about #habitat destruction folks!! See the #Waalitj #eaglet on the right? That's #Ngooni, a #WedgetailedEagle that was satellite-tagged in October 2017. Like his #twin brother #Naakal & many other juveniles of his species, Ngooni has wandered to the far north of Australia & back again during the first 2 years of his dispersal phase, recently 'settling' in an area near #Kalbarri on the west coast of WA, where he's spent the last few months. BUT... last week he shot south & spent 2 days 'resting' in habitat already rezoned & proposed for development by our local, friendly 'lovers of #God's creatures' The Anglican Church & 'concreters of all creatures great & small' Satterley. The first map here shows Ngooni's 450 km incoming journey south to visit & rest up in a nice patch of #NoongarCountry #Marri forest (blue dots), & his subsequent outward journey back to the Kalbarri area (green dots). The 3rd map shows his rest stop in relation to the proposed & gastly @NorthStoneville development site (red outline), which is already home to a breeding pair of adult Wedge-tailed Eagles, whose nest sites are marked with blue dots, & whose home range will be enveloped by housing. The message??

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SONGLINES in ancient Australian culture connect places of great significance #oncountry at the landscape scale. So concreting such places (or even filling them in with 'sustainable developments' claiming to minimise environmental impact by clearing 165ha of forest & sticking blocks of houses among the few remaining trees left post-clearing) makes them unusable, not only to local species but to those that travel far & wide too. This patch of #Parkerville is too valuable to lose to dangerous destruction, to the ongoing #deathbyathousandcuts wave of 'progress'. Let's make sure we know this, folks, & we keep the protective dialogue flying. 🦅📡🗺🌳🌳💛💪🏽