I have one word to describe the Special Council meeting that was called to adopt the Local Planning Strategy tonight: Mindless. Social psychologist Ellen Langer states that when an individual is mindless their thinking is dominated by a narrow perspective, they rigidly rely on narrow categories and fail to take into consideration different perspectives. Never [...]
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John Day recently wrote a response to Iris Jones’s letter to the editor in which she called for the Honourable Minister John Day to resign (click here to view a copy of her letter). Often when people become highly emotive, they lose perspective, are unable to see things clearly and fail to see other viable [...]
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The community has made their feelings well known with regards to the urbanisation of Wattle Grove East (officially in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010). But once again, we are being asked to comment on the future of this area. The Shire has released their Draft Local Planning Strategy with Aged Accommodation listed as first “issue” for [...]
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The Wattle Grove Action group will have the following piece published in the next edition of the Kalamunda Reporter. We felt it was important to clear up the misinformation that has spread throughout the Shire of Kalamunda on this issue. Please click on the image below to download and read a copy of our response.
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Recently developer Ross Leighton placed an open letter to the Minister for Planning John Day in the Echo community paper (click to enlarge). The letter fails to tell the whole story and deliberately omits a number of crucial facts. Here is our response to his letter – Mr Leighton states that the Shire of Kalamunda [...]
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Earlier this week I received a copy of a letter sent out to 10,000 Kalamunda Shire residents by ex-councilor John Giardina. His letter titled ‘An important request’ outlines the fact that there is a serious shortage of aged care accommodation within the Kalamunda Shire and urges residents to strongly support the rezoning and development proposal [...]
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We have 22 days left for the community to send in their submissions opposing the rezoning of 32 Gavour Road…the only problem is many local residents have not been alerted to this fact. The image below is of a sign that was put up by the Shire of Kalamunda outside the Proponent’s property to alert [...]
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‘It’s like a wild forest!’ my cousin’s 5 year old daughter cried out in delight as she ran through our garden in Wattle Grove at Easter. I have never seen a little child look so excited! You see my cousin’s daughter has lived in a dense urban area all her life. Her exposure to plants [...]
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