Breakfast ruined
I LIKE to read your paper online, usually on Friday morning (I am 12 hours behind WA).
While drinking my morning coffee I see a story about South Beach. Hell, we all love the beach. Then, a picture of a toilet where an apparent ass bomb went off.
Hard to get your coffee and scones down at that point. I am a classless low-life but that made even me sick! I hope that was synthetic faeces and not the real thing. Reminds me of the ancient Chinese book of wisdom; Translated; Brown spots on the wall written by; Who Flung Poo.
Your story in my opinion was For Unlawful Cardinal Knowledge and up. You should have called the story Holy Crap or floating at the beach. Thanks for making me sick more than 12,000 miles away.
Scott Petrill
Old Monroe Marshville Rd
North Carolina, USA
The Ed says: We live to serve. And it was real. Yuk.

So over it
AN acclaimed citizen booted over boorish visitors? (Herald, February 14, 2015).
Well where should I start, I am a resident in Nicholas Crescent and live very near numbers 16 and No 18.
I have been in this area for four years and I have not been able to have a restful sleep in a long time, which is  affecting me and other residents nearby. It has been a nightmare. People in and out of the tenant’s house—numerous people and children staying there—have caused disruptive behaviour. Between No 16 and No 18 there have been constant problems and we have had to call the police out numerous times at all hours, mostly night time and early mornings.
Fremantle mayor Brad Pettitt should get the right information and his facts right before he expresses his pit. Well, the tenant should be responsible for what has been going on and should not have let the place be used as a halfway house. Mayor Pettitt, for his information the people who were all staying at the house are now staying next door at 18—what do you say to that and the disruptive behaviour will continue.
Maybe Mayor Brad Pettitt should come and stay here for a week or two!
We are all so over this problem. There is another case, house up the road where the indigenous flag was.
They were evicted well guess what—most of them have moved into another department of housing property just a few houses away. Explain this.
We just want peace and quiet I would love my son to be able to play outside and be safe and not hear foul language and see drugs and drug addicts going in and out of these houses.
Explain this, Mayor Brad Pettitt.
Unhappy and disturbed resident!
Name supplied
Nicholas Cres, Hilton

Out of mind
THE National Libraries of London, Rome, Sweden and Riyadh hold pride of place in their respective cities and are proudly housed in magnificent buildings for all to see, admire and use.
Other such proudly situated libraries include Rockingham and all state libraries of Australia.
Whenever I travel, I always visit the local library which is usually in an architecturally interesting building, displaying unique local artefacts and is a mine of information.
This being the case, why on earth is Fremantle council even contemplating banishing our much loved, community-based, well-frequented library by locals and visitors alike, to a cellar?
Pamela Leeson
Hulbert St, South Fremantle

Enough is enough
IN response to the article “Evicted at 78” (Herald, February 14, 2015) and the tenant’s eviction from her Homeswest home, the only thing I can say is—finally!
After living in close vicinity to the home and enduring endless fights, brawls, visiting drunks, unattended toddlers on the street, foul language—you name it—at any hour, at all hours.
I am a personal friend of the tenant and have huge respect for her and her service to the community.
But that does not mean I nor anyone else should be subjected to this constant anti-social behaviour originating from her home.
The residents of Nicholas Crescent deserve some peace and quiet after much more than the 25 complaints mentioned in the Herald.
Let’s not have a pity party.
There have been so many warnings given and nothing has ever changed.
I challenge you Brad Pettit to live here for a week and then hear what you have to say.
We have rights too—rights to a safe neighbourhood for us and our children, rights to not be abused when we set foot outside our doors, rights to be heard when we go through the painstaking process of complaining to Homeswest.
Come on, enough is enough and it’s time to understand what living in a community consists of—respect both ways.
Name supplied, Hilton

Bums off!
I AGREE with the three photographed gentlemen (“Beach loo blue,” Herald February 21, 2015) that we need clean toilets, but also clean tables to eat off and clean seats to sit on.
Bums on seats, feet on ground, please, sirs!
David Meredith
Hannibal St, Palmyra

This has been going on for far too long
IN response to the article “Evicted at 78” (Herald, February 14, 2015) I have a fantastic idea.
Perhaps Brad Pettitt, Labor MPs Simone McGurk, Peter Tinley, Melissa Parke, Senator Sue Lines and former WA attorney-general Jim McGinty would volunteer to move in as neighbours?
That ought to turn that sorry puppy dog look on Brad Pettitt’s face to one of horror—one I am all too used to when people find syringes and bongs in the front garden where kids play!
They can also look forward to their wives or daughters being threatened with rape or unwanted advances by the many random men.
No takers?
Perhaps if we sweeten the deal by throwing in a few squatters living out of makeshift humpies in the backyard for months on end or better yet I can offer limited front-row seats to numerous drug raids the whole family will enjoy.
In all seriousness, the above mentioned has been a reality for neighbours for far too long.
The entire Hilton community and especially direct neighbours are the real victims in what has been a battle against disgustingly anti-social behaviour for more than a decade.
It has been an appalling failure on behalf of Homewest that it has taken so long.
I find it hard to believe any other Homeswest tenant would receive even half the leniency.
Twenty-five complaints in three years? [This has been going on] for 25 years—let’s see the total figure and let readers make their own mind up if this eviction is truly the outrage your article makes it out to be.
Victor
Hilton

Getting younger every year
INTERESTING reading of Hayden Grove’s article (Herald, February 21, 2015).
My house, built in 1995 on virgin ground, is heritage-listed! Shortly after moving in we were given the news.
Never any consultation and surely too new. Seemed like a mistake had been made. Now, as I need to replace the garage door, I must apply for planning permission as this 20-year-old house is still listed. Not amused, quite bemused.
No name and address if published please. I don’t want to queer my pitch with the planning department.
Name and address supplied.

Ablutions invest
THE South Beach Café is a much loved place, good company, food, coffee and morning chat. Watching it develop over the five years we’ve lived here has been great.
The final removal of the brown bubbling pools of sewage by the side was a relief to the nostrils. Then the murals on the outside were such a delight, the slap-dash paint job inside wasn’t so good.
As for the claim that the toilets are cleaned six times a day? Should that not read six times a week?
In all the time we’ve been in and out of the café at varying times during the day I certainly don’t recall seeing any cleaners parked outside more than once, or at most twice, a day.
For the amount of use this area gets one block of antiquated toilets is simply not sufficient. Instead of promoting developments for communal use, which by the by are excellent, please think ahead. All these things will simply attract more people, who will all need at some stage a toilet.
How about this winter dear council, you really upgrade those awful stinky loos? and start planning another block further up the beach area?
Perhaps we need to look at employing someone as an attendant during the peak summer season? Then the cleaning and general maintenance would be less of a herculean task. It would also, we hope, discourage some of the more anti-social behaviour, community service perhaps could include this as a job? My thoughts on the matter anyway, I’m sure I’m not the only one.
Lyn Shipp
Breaksea Drive, North Coogee

Consultation a luxury now?
THOSE who care about the future amenity value of our parks and reserves would be disturbed to read in the minutes (pages 23-24) of the February 17 council meeting that City of Melville executives, and evidently most councillors, consider that individual management plans for major parks and reserves are an unnecessary luxury.
City officers inform us it would cost around $112,000—including community consultation—to prepare plans for all 18 of the major reserves. We could conclude the cost of a plan for say just the Attadale Reserve, as a priority area, would be a fraction of that amount, perhaps around $10,000 or less.
The clear message from the city is that—in the absence of any strategic planning for specific parks and reserves—the community should be content that there are operational/maintenance plans in place.
A majority of our city’s elected representatives have on February 17 given their implicit unqualified support for that position. It seems management plans and “community consultation” have indeed become luxuries the community must do without.
Dave Osborne
Burke Dve, Attadale