Royal Commission Reports

💥****** BREAKING NEWS ******💥

Australia's Bushfire Royal Commission announces:

"DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH RISK AREAS SHOULD BE AVOIDED'...

So, as we swelter in a 37-degrees SPRING day 🥵 and, just 4 days before Satterley and the Anglican Church's outrageous Appeal begins against the REJECTION of their dangerous and destructive North Stoneville development 🔥, some sobering findings from the Royal Commission into the disastrous 2020 Bushfire season.

The Inquiry has delivered 80 recommendations from that deadly Bushfire crisis, which is considered to be a glimpse of what our heating climate will deliver in the future - compromising traditional firefighting techniques and rendering current bushfire prediction models, ineffective.

While a National co-ordinated Bushfire response features significantly, today's report delves into how wise future planning can REDUCE risk.

Satterley - Anglican Archbishop Goldsworthy - TAKE NOTE: 😡

"Point 19.60 - Good land-use planning decisions can mitigate future risks.

Decisions about new developments should be based on the best information available on current and future risks.

In addition, development in high risk areas should be avoided unless risk can be clearly communicated and cost-effectively managed. Where new structures are built in high-risk areas, they should be sufficiently resilient for their expected lifespan."

And, Point 19.73 - "Fire behaviour, such as ember attack and proximity of other houses, are apparently not adequately addressed in the current standards."

WA's Planning Commission (WAPC) REJECTED North Stoneville because it DOESN'T COMPLY with WA's Bushfire policies designed to SAVE LIVES.✅

Now, the National Royal Commission supports the stance of our own Govt agencies'- DFES & WAPC, and our COMMUNITY.

We repeat, clearly and categorically, that the proposed North Stoneville urban development is DANGEROUS and puts the lives of the Hills' Community at unacceptable risk.

The Royal Commission has spoken:

⛔️DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH RISK AREAS SHOULD BE AVOIDED.⛔️

Satterley - Archbishop Goldsworthy - PULL THE PIN on your Appeal NOW - 🤚🏻🚫 and know that you have saved lives - and perhaps, your reputations.

https://naturaldisaster.royalcommission.gov.au/system/files/2020-10/Royal%20Commission%20into%20National%20Natural%20Disaster%20Arrangements%20-%20Report%20%20%5Baccessible%5D.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0OVt1wxZUeTwkt3PogzEwvecoskEjiVMyhSdGjm_S-rgSOnZ5aPFVttOI

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SP79 On Hold

Finally - Some COMMON SENSE! ...in the quest to blindly urbanise our bushfire-prone Hills - in Australia's 5th highest Fire Risk locality. 🏠 Congratulations to our friends at SPPA (Stoneville Parkerville Progress Association), who’ve done a great job to help secure a deferment for 58 suburban-style homes on Kilburn Road, Parkerville. The plan, (SP79), by Parkerville Children’s Home and Youth Centre, is on Clutterbuck Creek, with ZERO Public Open Space - and, FIRE-TRAP cul-de-...sacs. It was heading to Mundaring Council TONIGHT October 13, for a decision. 😰BUT!!! 🥁... The Parkerville Children and Youth Care (PCYC) have LISTENED to the community's concerns and put their plans ON HOLD - at least until the end of the year! 👏😁 👏SPPA met with PCYC expressing deep concerns about the plan's bushfire and environmental risks. PCYC suggested they press PAUSE and - ⚡️ await the outcomes of the Royal Commission Summer of Fires in which 33 people died and more than 3000 homes were destroyed, ⚡️ await Satterley’s APPEAL against the Planning Commission's REJECTION of the dangerous and destructive North Stoneville development - right next door to Kilburn Rd and; ⚡️ to LEARN more about community concerns about building housing developments in the Hills’ extreme bushfire zone regions. So, while the Anglican Church rams ahead with Satterley and its costly appeal on their North Stoneville disaster plan, PCYC are putting PEOPLE AHEAD OF PROFITS - a lesson in humanity for ALL developers. There are better ways than transforming Perth's Hills into a fire-trap suburbia - that is doomed to failure and tragedy. Good on your SPPA - and thank you PCYC - this deferment is a WIN for community.