NO NIGEL NO

NO NIGEL NO!!

This weekend (18th December) marks an important anniversary for all of us at Save Perth Hills.

It’s 3 years since $atterley blind-sided our Community with their dangerous and destructive SP34 North $toneville plan.

A sprawling estate of 1500 houses, (some 350 sqm), for more than 4000 people, surrounded by an Extreme Bushfire Zone.

With NO warning, $atterley gave us just 3 weeks, over Xmas/New Year to comment on their firetrap surprise package.

So we did... and have gone on to achieve the following:

• Almost 1000 submissions said NO NIGEL NO!

• 1200 people at Council said NO NIGEL NO!

• Our Council UNANIMOUSLY voted NO NIGEL NO!

• WA’s Planning Commission said NO NIGEL NO!

• 3000 people rallied saying NO NIGEL NO!

• REZONE to RURAL applications say NO NIGEL NO!

• Politicians on ALL sides say NO NIGEL NO!

What part of NO doesn’t Nigel doesn’t get?

In that time, YOU have

• donated your hard-earned $ to the cause!

• put banners on your fences!

• SPH stickers on 100s of cars!

• waved placards at our rallies!

• sent amazing messages of support!

• helped 2 SPH Chairs get to Council! (Councillor Amy Collins for Shire of Mundaring and Councillor Paige McNeil)

$atterley is still chasing their SUBURBAN NIGHTMARE through Appeal.

And we’re still fighting it at every turn.

Just remember, $atterley had planned to build in 2020.

Thanks to YOU - ALL they’re building is one helluva ROTTEN REPUTATION.

A picture paints a thousand words... doesn't it?

Here is Planning Minister Rita Saffioti MLA in a lineup of ten women this week, standing right alongside $atterley’s latest recruit - Megan Adair.

It's a double-spread newspaper feature about ‘property’s most influential women’ titled ‘Powerful New Level of Success’.

In it, the Minister calls for ‘female leaders to take on a bigger public profile.’

It makes you wonder... what were Minister Saffioti and Megan’s new boss Nigel $atterley, discussing, intensely, at an Urban Development Institute lunch last month?

We’re going to help Megan take on a ‘bigger public profile’, when we place Ms Adair’s appointment with $atterley under our Pub Test spotlight...

More to follow....

NO COMPLACENCY IN FIRE SEASON

Last Thursday’s headline says it all. Emergency Minister Reece Whitby MLA warns of a ‘horror bushfire season’, revealing WA is spending ‘record amounts to mitigate bushfire risk.’ Everyone must have a Bushfire Plan, he says. We agree 100%. But what about the Govt’s Bushfire Plan? Is it consistent - or complacent, with the reality we face?

Last Tuesday the Govt’s own Planning Committee (SPC), considered approving 56 houses in Parkerville, on land adjoining $atterley and the Anglican Church’s (currently rejected), dangerous and destructive North $toneville. Save Perth Hills has revealed to this Committee, the plan’s: - DODGY Map (see earlier post) - DODGY BAL Ratings, based on... - DODGY Slope Estimates - OUT OF DATE 30-METRE Clutterbuck Creek Setback and; - INADEQUATE ESCAPE for 240 EXTRA people

More than 100 locals, Mundaring Shire Council, Stoneville and Parkerville Ratepayers’ Association (SPPA) and Save Perth Hills, OPPOSE this plan that will INCREASE, not MITIGATE, bushfire risks.

Minutes before last Tuesday’s meeting, Save Perth Hills urgently informed the Committee of SEVERE BUSHFIRE CONDITIONS developing. Then, as the Committee deliberated, Chittering came under serious bushfire threat (a housing development is on the table over there, BTW) The next day, Margaret River region erupted in bushfire that’s still burning. We’ve URGED the Committee to DEFER their decision at least until Wooroloo’s Bushfire Inquiry is released (any day now). Our point is: ...the Govt spends TAXPAYERS’ millions to ‘MITIGATE RISK’ then tasks its own Planning Chiefs to consider INCREASING RISK by approving more houses, for more people in regions more at risk than ever, of bushfire catastrophes. Had Chittering’s fire escalated to a Wooroloo scale - while Margaret River burned, our limited firefighting resources - stretched over 360kms, could NOT have saved both regions.

There’s no room for complacency - on ANY level. We ALL need a bushfire plan - including our Govt. The Govt’s plan MUST be to PLAN DIFFERENTLY in Perth’s Hills. The Govt must approve ONLY what we can defend... including what to do in CONCURRENT bushfire emergencies.

We find out next week if the Committee has the courage to DEFER this flawed Parkerville plan - and demonstrate a Govt commitment to put lives ahead of irresponsible planning. Because THAT would be a Govt Bushfire Plan worth having...