Power is demonstrably being taken from the local to the central, as the human drive to get more control continues.
JDAP has just disregarded many hours of work done by the FCC to modify the proposal for the ‘Henderson’ Hotel.
Even more spectacularly, the Minister for Local Government has given local councils only a few weeks to agree to his draconian changes – or he will implement them anyway.
Walyalup Koort
‘The heart of Walyalup’: good idea. I’m not sure if there is (or should be) a precise area to which it applies.
Almost half of what used to be Kings Square is now civic buildings. Most of the other half is St John’s churchyard, as it has been since 1844.
Perth Stuff > FS
I ran a website called Perth Stuff (perthstuff.info) for one year from WA Day in 2018, but for a number of reasons decided to migrate everything I’d done there to my main Fremantle Stuff site (on which this blog runs). The building above was one I wanted to discover. It’s the original barracks which gave Barrack Street its name – but it can be represented just as well here as there.
Fremantle Stuff
This site attempts to draw together information and images to do with the history and heritage of Fremantle, not only buildings but also people and places generally.
The WA Chambers building stood between the Post Office and Princess Chambers 1907-1971, and was demolished in favour of an extension to the PO with a perfectly blank brick wall set back from the street.