New Woolstores plans lodged
NEW plans for the redevelopment of the Woolstores Shopping Centre have been submitted to Fremantle council this week. While the plans haven’t yet been released publicly, Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt […]
‘The forgotten ones’
NORTH FREMANTLE residents are the forgotten victims in the debate over the future of Fremantle’s port, sustainability professor Peter Newman told a public meeting this week. Organised by the North […]
Fremantle elections: Who’s running?
City Ward John Dowson is president of the Fremantle Society and an outspoken critic of Fremantle council, which he says has trashed way too much of the city’s heritage while […]
Council looks to tame Leeming traffic
IT’S taken six years, but Leeming resident Con Abbott has finally convinced someone to look into taming Farrington Road’s growing traffic snarls. “The first time I raised this problem in […]
Green win
MELVILLE greenies are celebrating after the local council voted to convert 2000sqm of prime Attadale land worth $1.5 million into parkland. The land, at the corner of Lawlor and Davis […]
Shed assured
MELVILLE is finally getting a new Men’s Shed. After spending five years looking for a suitable site, the council has approved a peppercorn lease for a Men’s Shed’s on Bob […]
Smelters history preserved
THE colourful but little-known history of a shanty town which existed in the sand hills along the Cockburn Coast for decades has been collated for a new exhibition. The Smelters […]
