A proposal for City of Cockburn ratepayers to foot a $114,000 bill for the mayor and three councillors to spend a week in Croatia has been put on ice.
A Cockburn council delegation to Split,Croatia,includes spending up to $25,000 on each councillor’s business class flights,plus an accommodation budget of $500 each per night.
West Australians are eligible to get at least $200 credit on their power bills while residents affected by the Mariginiup fire can access the Lord Mayor’s Distress Relief Fund.
The stalled project provides insight into what’s happening – or not happening – across the rest of the city,whose many heritage buildings are boarded up because the owners are not motivated to develop their properties.
The worst-performing places were outer suburban areas with rapidly growing greenfield developments and often lagging infrastructure.
Whether you get a warning or a $10,000 fine for interfering with your local suburban streetscape might depend on little more than luck in Perth.
Is this 51-storey South Perth record-breaker an environmental marvel,or an undercooked overdevelopment? It depends who’s talking,the developer or the council.
Architects are charged with putting people into homes. So why,during a housing crisis,are seven high-profile design professionals fighting to stop a major development?
Town of Victoria Park residents have passed a motion of no confidence over a series of major decisions they claim have left ratepayers out of pocket and in the dark.
In an era in which homes are on ever-smaller blocks with ever-fewer trees,a local council has ordered play equipment removed from a front verge used by many.
The number of short-term rentals has risen over the past year,but those needing the certainty of a longer lease face fierce competition.