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Edison Residential Property Management @edisonproperty edisonproperty.com.au 9201 9800 VNo 1124 Saturdayoice March 7, 2020 • Phone 9430 7727 • www.perthvoice.com • [email protected] Blanket heritage splits city where the government businesses up for sale while all community of the consultation only by DAVID BELL will spend over $200m of and nearly everyone else submissions were nearly spread through word of BLANKET heritage taxpayers’ money”. struggling along. unanimously against the mouth and when property Owners “It is clear that there was zones may be applied to Mr Shanahan said proposal when it was owners looked into the businesses were already no community momentum advertised by council,” he proposal they were very Bayswater and Maylands struggling, with several for this heritage area to be said. unhappy. say they town centres. shops vacant, other formed in the first place, Mr Shanahan says news • Continued page 4 Dozens more individual properties have also weren’t been added to Bayswater council’s heritage list Your complete guide to beating the shortage despite many owners saying they were not alerted. informed Huge dissent preceded the vote at Bayswater ALONG with the two council’s February town centres, a split 25 meeting, with one council also voted deputation after another to apply heritage calling for the Baysie town classifications to dozens centre heritage area to be of individual properties. scrapped. Councillors were also Those rated category divided, with Michelle 1, 2 or 3 are added to the Sutherland saying the official “Heritage List” blanket heritage zones in the town planning had already scared some scheme and need planning investors out of town. approval to make changes. Category 4 and 5 are Sold up included in a “survey” with a note calling for “I do know late last heritage to be recognised year some landowners in and interpreted “if Maylands, on Guildford possible”. Road, had sold their Deputy mayor properties because they’d Filomena Piffaretti said heard about this and they there were problems got out,” Cr Sutherland with an unnamed said. consultant’s report and Respect Bayswater’s she couldn’t support its Heritage Heart member Salvation is Take a leaf from recommendations. Keith Clements fronted the closer than our ancestors’ “We do not have an meeting to support the plan, accurate report. The quality saying most locals valued you think book of the external consultant’s the town centre’s history. report is very lacking... But others were furious it’s not robust enough,” the city was ploughing she told the February 25 ahead with its blanket meeting. declaration. • Continued page 4 “It’s clear that no business or property owners SURVIVE THE Find the fake ad for your were consulted,” said pharmacist Greg Da Rui. chance to win one of 3 Future Bayswater chair vouchers of $25 each Paul Shanahan told the Voice he has a number of concerns about the plan, TOILETPAPERGATE saying red tape would SHELVES across the city were Before we resort to repurposing the river has a very south-of-the- discourage investment and emptied of toilet paper on the shoe buffer machines in the river suggestion. constrain revitalisation of Tuesday, from Maylands’ Coles toilets at Parliament House, one of See page 7 for her old-world our correspondents from south of solution to our toilet paper crisis the town centre – “a very to North Perth Plaza. See Comps for details. important Metronet precinct You deserve a new kitchen! 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Singaporean-based developer Claridges’ plans for a 26-storey 2 block of offices and a 33-storey 1000m of Showroom block of units was approved Visit our website to see pictures of our new arrivals! by Perth’s Development Assessment Panel on February 20, with the three state Open 7 Days Mon to Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 1pm - 5pm government appointed experts and Perth commissioner Gaye • Only one of these trees will survive the 83 Nanson St, Wembley (cnr Grantham St) Ph 9383 9239 McMath unanimous in their chainsaw. Photo by David Bell support. Perth council’s 2016 Urban Forest Plan is powerless to • Woods Bagot’s protect trees on private land design for the old – the council skipped the townhouse block stage intended to give the at 725 Wellington plan some teeth and instead Street. opted to encourage residents to “micro green” with flowers on their balcony or shopfronts. Provisions for protecting trees on privately-owned land is still several years away. Tallest The tallest of the gums stretches nearly seven storeys high, but only one will • Customised cleaning for all be retained for the $290m 2 development. Other smaller types of rugs from $33 per m species will also be felled. • Customised cleaning for all In a report to the panel the types of rugs from $30 per m2 council’s planners lamented the • Stain and odour removal loss of the trees but said they could not stop their felling. The council’s policies haven’t • Stain and• odourFibre protection removal just failed to protect the trees; another rule on its books calls for new CBD developments to have • Fibre protection• Repairs “nil setback”, making it virtually inevitable that developers have to chop them down. • Repairs • Pick up and delivery That rule can be waived if ‘Great cultural value’ there’s a good reason, but Perth’s WATCH OUR VIDEO planners cited it as a hindrance A NEIGHBOUR says the eight green corridors as• one Pick of its six up and delivery to keeping the trees at Claridges’ gum trees are of “great cultural key goals. Wellington Street site. value” and their removal The submission said if the ground floor of the front tower Apart from the deforestation, should be run past the city’s traditional owners to gauge was brought back in line with the Perth’s planners were glowing podium levels the trees could stay about the buildings, saying the their significance. without much loss of floor space. project would be “instrumental While praising the towers’ The project’s hired town in revitalising of this part of the high-quality design, the planner Peter Simpson responded: city centre”. neighbour said in a submission “While it is acknowledged that it A pedestrian bridge will link to the DAP they couldn’t support is preferable to retain mature ON OUR WEBSITE the two towers above a public them because of the tree loss. trees, the location of the trees plaza, which will retain the “The trees in question are and the size of the development single remaining gum at its entry potentially the largest in central means that any retention would near the existing Four Points Perth by height and canopy have a significant impact on the Sheraton Hotel. extent... [and] are also rare built form of the podium and Claridges is an offshoot examples of mature endemic tower above when considering 1300 MY RUGS of Bonvests Holdings, which flora in a city dominated by exotic the canopy of the trees. bought the site in 2018 for European species and therefore “Additionally, the tree root $33.5m after all former owners are of great cultural value,” the protection is also likely to impact 1300 69 7847 of the existing Eden Park strata submission read. the location of the basements. The neighbour said the trees’ www.therugcleaningcompany.com.au units agreed to accept the above- This would have a significant removal ran counter to the city’s impact on the project viability and market-value offer. Bonvests also cultural development strategy also the design of the proposed owns the Four Points which will which promoted native flora and development.” be given an upgrade. 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