GOOD ON YOU, DREW!

The proposed dangerous and destructive North Stoneville urbanisation is opposed by all who value our unique Hills environment.

This week Save Perth Hills had the absolute privilege to present, to the WA Planning Commission (WAPC), an inspiring environmental investigation of North Stoneville by a Parkerville teenager who’s identified the area worthy of protection.

Drew Wallace’s three year investigation has rightly earned front page news in this week’s Echo.

The WAPC has confirmed Drew’s report will be formally considered when a decision on the controversial proposal, is made, likely in the next few weeks.

Our community has been fighting, consistently, against North Stoneville for 26 long years.

Save Perth Hills says ‘Good on you Drew’!

It’s heartening to see the next generation stepping up to join the fight to save their future.

https://echonewspaper.com.au/three-year-study-shines-spotl…/

THIS STINKS!

Another insurmountable problem with North Stoneville is the proposed PRIVATELY owned sewage recycling plant.🤑

Intended to sit next to Suzannah Brook Catchment, Water Corp WA refuses to involve itself in the plant - opposition stretching back to 2004.

So, in 2016, the re-zone to URBAN was based heavily on SATTERLEY’S POO PLANT being PRIVATELY owned and operated by Water West - which has NEVER built a sewage plant in Hills geology!

We have asked many technical questions about environmental safeguards, smell, contamination - only to be told: “These details don’t need to be provided until subdivision stage”.

So, we ask again:

💩What if the private operator goes broke?

💩What if the recycled water is contaminated?

💩What if it overflows or runs into landowners’ dams and Suzannah Brook?

💩What if the ‘ponds’ leak into pristine aquifers?

💩Will Satterley put up a $50+ million bond (at least) on his POO PLANT against environmental contamination?

💩And what about the smell? ....

Just ask the people of Craigie, in Perth’s northern suburbs, about the ‘smell’.... they’ve been inhaling Poo Fumes since 2017!🤧

https://www.perthnow.com.au/…/locals-kick-up-stink-over-cra…

BLACK SUMMER OF FIRE - ROYAL COMMISSION: DAY 1

The dangerous and destructive North Stoneville plan is just weeks away from determination and Save Perth Hills is watching, very closely, the Royal Commission into the Black Summer of Fires.

Already, Day 1 confirmed what we have long-known and shared, with the Government, Shire, land-owner (Anglican Church), and Satterley:

🔥 ”Climate change means that the past is no longer a guide to future climate-related impacts and risks." (Dr Helen Cleugh: CSIRO), and;

🔥”...fire seasons would not only start earlier and finish later, but become worse and more extreme.” (Dr Karl Braganza: Bureau of Meteorology).

Save Perth Hills mandate that putting 4,000+ people inside an extreme bushfire zone, will create a fire trap.

We base our facts on the work of these very scientists who predicted and warned of the Summer of Fires, and who are now informing the Royal Commission.

The evidence tells us - urbanising North Stoneville is a dangerous plan of the past.

That’s why it conflicts with current State Planning Policies - huge road risks, zero public transport, insufficient fire exits, no MetroNet access.

And, it collides head on, with the State’s Fire Policy ‘3.7’ by creating insurmountable bushfire dangers.

We say, again, to the State Government: Heed the warnings - and the science.

Plan for the future, not the past, and safeguard our fire-prone communities, like the Perth Hills.