City of Canning mayor Patrick Hall said ratepayers did not expect councils to involve themselves in the national debate on the virtues of advertising liquor or fast foods.
Basil Zempilas isn’t getting invited to media events he reckons the City of Perth should have a presence at. So what’s opened this rift between the mayor and the WA Labor government?
The big majority of homeowners do not want towering apartment blocks built next door to their homes. Councils know that and reflect their ratepayers’ wishes.
The government was chasing feedback over its draft “minimising noise impact from outdoor community basketball” guidelines. The City of Stirling had a blunt response to the proposal.
The state has re-educated a group of councillors wielding a voting majority in defiance of community sentiment as $20 million federal cash hangs in the wind.
Shalom House has bought the old Mercyville Hostel in Craigie to house the rehabilitation service’s women’s program.
Residents wanting to lodge development applications will have to run them by their neighbours or pay more,a western suburbs council has decided.
The motion says the city should not accept sponsorships from companies whose main business is the extraction or sale of coal,oil and gas,and likened this advertising to tobacco advertising in the past.
Replacing a modest wooden lookout with an almost identical plastic one for close to $400,000 has sparked an outcry from residents of this coastal suburb.
Progress on an $80 million recreational facility opposite an inner-city university has ground to a halt – despite a community that actually wants development. And now some councillors want to only deal with ‘decorous and temperate’ petitions.
Residents of the inner southern suburbs are in uproar as a landmark project they thought was signed and sealed is now in jeopardy due to council infighting.