Celebrating Community Awards

Celebrating Save Perth Hills was recognised on Sunday at the Shire of Mundaring 2021 Celebrating Community Awards!

Thank you Matt Swinbourn MLC for sharing this! And thank you for jumping in on the photo. To those who don't know, Matt is the Parliamentary Secretary to the Attorney-General; Minister for Electoral Affairs and the Member for the East Metro Region. Matt tabled our petition to Parliament of over 3,200 signatures, calling on the government to press PAUSE on development plans in the Perth Hills pending the outcome of the Wooroloo Bushfire inquiry. That petition was handed over on the steps of Parliament House back in June. We thank Matt for his support.

AND to Councillor Paige McNeil, the Shire of Mundaring Deputy President, who read the Award nomination and has been a pillar of support and strength in our work over the years!

To be recognised as an inspirational group for our contribution to the local community has us all humbled but also a little proud. Thank you to all the amazing volunteers who were recognised today - what a community we have!

But, the show rolls on.... We’re going to be submitting written deputations to the Planning Commission for Tuesday 7th Dec regarding SP79 (See previous post)… As always we’ll keep you in the loop as we learn more!

Over 10,000

Crikey! Over 10,000!

That's the reach our last Facebook post had regarding the mapping errors by the Planning Dept on Proposed Structure Plan 79 (next door to Nth $toneville).

Your Save Perth Hills team has always been focused on ensuring accuracy and accountability. Imagine making planning decisions based on incorrect data - it makes us wonder - what if we hadn't been there to notice.

Thank you to all of you tuning in, donating, liking, sharing, commenting and continuing to support.... 10,000+ tells us you are there listening and on this journey with us

Never before has our catch cry, "Once it's gone, it's gone!" been more true... stay tuned folks.... more coming...

SPOT THE ERRORS?

You're looking at a critical PLANNING DEPT map, to help WA’s Planning Commission decide if a potentially dangerous development - RIGHT NEXT DOOR to proposed North $toneville, should be approved. This plan, called ‘SP79’, belongs to Parkerville Children and Youth Care - part of the Anglican Church, which owns North Stoneville next door. The plan is for 56 houses, crammed into Kilburn Rd, an Extreme Bushfire Zone, 56 sewerage systems (ATUs) just 30 METRES from Clutterbuck Creek, ZERO Public Open Space, and limited emergency exits for 240 people onto RURAL Roland Rd. (by the way - Mundaring Council rejected it - so the WAPC gets to decide). Can you see the mapping mistakes ‘Toodyay Rd’ is NOT Toodyay Road! It’s just little old ‘Woolhouse Lane’ (old Cameron Rd). And ‘Great Eastern Highway’ - is the VERY RURAL - RILEY ROAD! North $toneville is circled as if it’s a handful of hectares - not 555!!! But it also appears North $toneville reaches Toodyay Rd! And SP79 looks almost as BIG as North Stoneville! And Mundaring is NOT 4 kms away - it's AT LEAST 6-8 KMS! These errors are more than ‘typos’ They’re seriously misleading. FALSE impressions about vital bushfire escape options. Fortunately, Save Perth Hills was in the WAPC opposing this plan - and exposed these unacceptable errors. We asked the WAPC to DEFER A DECISION on SP79 because the Wooroloo Bushfire findings are due in just 2 weeks. And WA’s significant Bushfire Planning Review is due in just a couple of months. These important inquiries will help to ensure this questionable plan meets the most up to date bushfire standards. But - at the end of the day - it should NOT rest with the Community, or Save Perth Hills, to ensure our State’s Planners have ACCURATE DATA on which to make decisions on which LIVES DEPEND. It really makes you wonder - what else have they got wrong???

30 years into the North Stoneville Saga, and we like to think nothing can surprise us anymore...