MELVILLE CITY HERALD Volume 24 No 30 Melville City’s own INDEPENDENT newspaper 41 Cliff Street, Fremantle Saturday July 27, 2013 Applecross - Bicton Edition - Letterboxed to Applecross, Alfred Cove, Ardross, Ph: 9430 7727 Fax 9430 7726 www.fremantleherald.com/melvillen Attadale, Bicton, Booragoon, Brentwood, Melville, Mt Pleasant, Myaree and Palmyra. Email: [email protected] • Bulldogs CEO Stuart Kemp says Freo council needs to spend more time—and money— Year’s fi xing Victoria Pavilion. Photo by delay for Carmelo Amalfi MORE THAN JUST AN ONLINE NEWSPAPER. Kings It’s offi cial. Readers love the new interactive edition of the Herald newspapers. Your interactive editions are a great way to have your say on local issues that matter to you. Every week we’re adding to our Square interactive Dining Guide where you can access professionally written reviews, stunning photography, and restaurant menus. You can even make reservations. If it’s a new home you’re after then look no further than our facelift interactive Real Estate guide. Rats gnaw Every week you’ll find new homes from the area’s top agents. by BRENDAN FOSTER He also claims to not be disappointed with the delay, Our interactive editions are also THE long-anticipated saying there’s still plenty to a convenient way for readers $220 million Kings Square be done: “The international to enter competitions. redevelopment has fallen a architectural competition will still There are some big ones coming at pavilion up so keep your eye on the site. year behind schedule, without kick-off as planned in the next few weeks,” he says. www.fremantleherald.com even starting. steps are deteriorating. Exit points Sirona managing director The news is a blow to by CARMELO AMALFI are also falling apart. Matthew McNeilly is keen to get Fremantle traders, who regard the He describes toilets and cracking: “Construction may start THE iconic Victoria Pavilion at project as a lifeline for the port amenities in the administration at the start of 2014 or at the end Fremantle Oval is unsafe. Rats city’s ailing retail sector. o ces under the stand as third- of 2014, depending on tenant pre- have moved in and female staff Mayor Brad Pettitt says world and there is no fi reproof completion. work next to old toilets now continuing delays by the state insulation above the roof. All that “The thing is, buildings don’t DELIVERY JOBS government in sorting out its used to store memorabilia. lies between the roof and the stand just magically appear. To get a THE Herald has limited public service decentralisation “We have been here since is a gap. project of this size and scale of MAILBOX DISTRIBUTOR plans are the “major reason”. 1895,” South Fremantle Football “There is a distinct feel and the ground takes time. But we JOB VACANCIES in Bicton, The timelines were, “recently Club CEO Stuart Kemp laments smell of dampness, mould and are working our butts off on the Palmyra, Melville, Alfred Cove, just extended again so we are now outside the empty members uncleanliness due to the lack of designs and development.” Myaree, Applecross, Ardross, looking at a decision on this by the stands. “We have contributed upkeep of the building. Meanwhile, Spacemarket, Mt Pleasant and Booragoon. end of this year,” he says. greatly to Fremantle. I just feel “The sewerage went a few which holds the lease for the Myer Good rates, easy exercise. The council and its corporate SFFC has been neglected by the months ago and we often have the building, plans to rent out 30 Phone Marie 9430 7727 partner Sirona had planned council, which is disappointing smell of rotten sewage.” spaces for independent retailers to start work this month on because we have been a lifeline for The pavilion is one of several from October until April. delivering new cafes and Freo for so long.” sites included in a Fremantle Inner Dr Pettit says the project— Find the Fake Ad restaurants, o ces, shops and Expecting big crowds at the City Residents’ Association survey called Myre—could turn the old and Win a Chance for apartments, a new library and a footy this weekend, Mr Kemp of city assets: “Council can fi nd building into possibly Australia’s boutique hotel. The earliest start describes the heritage-listed and $1 million of ratepayers’ money a Feast for 2 at biggest pop-up shop. date is now this time next year. iconic pavilion as an “occupational to put into a $1.6 million concrete “It is extremely good news for Dr Pettitt is keen on nabbing health and safety nightmare and landscaped skate park on the Freo that some of the best creative the WA housing department as an waiting to happen”. grass of the Esplanade Oval, but minds and young retailers in Perth anchor tenant at Kings Square but He says there is no fi re-proofi ng cannot do basic maintenance for Indian Restaurant want to come down and try out says the project is not dependent of the stand, the timber structure is clubs like yours which have been some new things in Fremantle.” See the Competitions page for details on it. frail and rotten and the seats and • continued page 6 Lightening the Load for Families Schoolkids Bonus payments – January & July 2013 Child Care Rebate boosted to 50% Tax cuts for low-income earners Teenager Bonus – up to $4,200 yearly per child Melissa Subsidised dental care for children – starts 2014 Parke Your Federal MP Renewal’s the word the Fremantle Leisure Centre Parks and gardens will cost by BRENDAN FOSTER • $1.55 m for stage one $4m, including $1.6m for the FREMANTLE city council works of the Film and Television skatepark at the Esplanade, is going out with a bang, Building $350,000 for eco-zoning earmarking $10 million • $700,000 for the Evan Fremantle Park and $150,000 Davies building, occupied by the for new reticulation at Bruce in the 2013-14 budget for Dome Cafe and Kulcha Lee Reserve. More than $3 infrastructure spending. • $1m to start work on the million will be spent on roads This budget will be one of the Warders’ Cottages and streets and $500,000 on the last the elected council gets to • $550,000 to do up the run- council’s bike plan. approve before administrators down Fremantle Markets Mayor Brad Pettitt says the are appointed prior to the port • $375,000 for the Fremantle budget—the fi rst to crack $100 city’s formal amalgamation with Arts Centre million—is about “investing in a Melville and East Fremantle. • $220,000 on Arthurs Head renewed and sustainable future”. Rates are going up 4.65 per buildings. “Renewal is its core, from major cent (the council claims it’s the The council is also spending investment in the leisure centre second lowest increase across $14 million on a new council to heritage buildings to the arts metropolitan Perth after Stirling, depot on Carrington Street, to be in Fremantle. but Vincent came in under four shared with Melville. “Council has worked hard per cent so it’s at best the third Some $1.1m is set aside for to continue to deliver strong lowest). The council will pocket the new Leighton Beach Cafe economic and community a cool $36 million from rates and $350,000 for a mens’ shed outcomes in line with its over the year. at the Hilton Bowling club to strategic planning, whilst Spending includes: replace the one in White Gum ensuring the burden on • $5.2m to complete work at Valley. ratepayers is minimised.” RUOCCO’S REOPENED! • PINING FOR A PLAYGROUND: Iain Kirkham, Paul Gamblin, Emma Herrick and Simone * Tuesday-Friday 11.30am-2.30pm McGurk with William, Weekday Specials ** Limited selection of pizzas/pastas Charlotte and Griffi n. $15 $20 $20 $15 Photo by Matthew Dwyer LUNCH SPECIAL* TUESDAY SPECIAL WEDNESDAY SPECIAL THURSDAY SPECIAL Pizza or Pasta** Pasta & Beer** Pizza & Beer** Takeaway Pizza** FULLY LICENSED OPEN FOR PRIVATE FUNCTIONS Like us on Facebook to receive our latest off ers GIFT VOUCHERS AVAILABLE & updated specials. by BRENDAN FOSTER Dine in or Takeaway 9335 6939 AN entire block of buildings at Fremantle 217 SOUTH TCE, SOUTH FREMANTLE primary school—including Play fray Pizzeria E Ruocco’sRistorante Tuesday - Sunday (11.30 am till late) classrooms—is so structurally unsound it is to be torn But the equipment could “The school community has down. not be reinstalled because it no been hit hard this year,” Ms D Block includes classrooms, longer met required standards. Clarke says. the canteen, staff room Just two pieces of the “The kids have put up with and toilets. WA education playground remain, shared sub-standard toilets for a long department infrastructure chief amongst 250 students. time and now we’re losing a WA’S ONLY John Fischer says no decision has P&C president Felicity Clarke whole building and our canteen. been about replacing the block. says new equipment will cost “We lost our iconic “The staff room has been $50,000 and with the department Moreton Bay fi g tree because 100% NATURAL AND ORGANIC relocated to a spare classroom, going less than halfway, parents contamination, and now it’s the classes are being relocated to are being asked to help. playground.” other classrooms where needed, “Play is one of the most Fremantle state Labor MP LATEX MATRESS SUPPLIER transportable toilets are on site important parts of development Simone McGurk says premier and John Curtin College of for children,” she says. “Parents Colin Barnett is spending the Arts will provide canteen are being asked to contribute one hundreds of millions of dollars services in the interim,” he says.