Residents wanting to lodge development applications will have to run them by their neighbours or pay more,a western suburbs council has decided.
Our extraordinarily plentiful and low-cost rooftop solar is paving the way for us to save $5000 a year on our bills in a 100 per cent renewable-powered city.
Four homes,four car bays and forty trees,all on a traditional quarter-acre block. It’s suburbia – but a shady,new kind for our hot sprawling Perth.
There are a couple of levers that when pulled will transform our fuel-guzzling city. Here are simple ideas to advocate for them – and what to do while you wait.
There are new seven-star national environmental standards for suburban homes – but planning and development leaders say WA is dragging its feet on enforcement.
Frustrated by not taking part in global transitions,by the slowness of politics? Wishing our city would act? Well,here’s our chance to get up to speed.
And just like that,winter is over and you’re allowed to turn your sprinklers on again... but some Perth and Mandurah householders must now make do with less.
To masterplan an area you outline a vision,hone controls,then developers interpret this with designs that tick the boxes yet stay profitable. Simple,right?
The record of visionary developments in Perth’s last 15 years of boom-bust-boom-again is mixed.
Dark roofs have been banned by a Perth council in a bid ensure new houses built are more energy-efficient and climate-resilient.
A property by the beach or the river in Perth is so sought after it has taken of the top five slots in a global report.