Station high rise no concern

Dear Echo News,

G Ross of Swan View seems concerned about high rise housing adjacent to the multi-level carpark and bus station development.

Depends, where the residential zone is going to be, and how high? ....and that will be up to the City of Swan and the Development WA Planning office surely?

And for the not so smug residents they will be happy to have somewhere to live as renters or owners close to all services, transport and shops.

Yet I doubt they will be more than nine stories high max with four/five storied units too.

Perth’s young architectural profession and city planners  are very creative.

North facing balconies two bedroom and one bedroom please, build to rent maybe opposite the car yard on Great Eastern Highway, and some trees for sound and shade protection across from the new bus station in Victoria Road with maybe an Uber or taxi drop off rank next to the Buzz Buzz, and in that shopping centre private road too, as well as at the new railway station.

The old railway station car park was a bit of a walk in the hot sun before.

A windy miserable place in winter for the past fifty years hey?

Behind the times of a more discerning public.

The next big question is what will become of the old railway station?

Another Yagan Square sort of place between some more so called high rise towers of G Ross next to the coal lake nearby.

Maybe eventually some tourist shops a la cafe alfresco too on the old station site.

Pretty ordinary design project for the chosen architectural practices.

A competition maybe. What do you  reckon G Ross of SwanView?

R Wood

Midland

Stop State Bill

Dear Echo News,

Every West Australian should be alarmed that legislation of this kind is being advanced in our state.

Premier Roger Cook’s rhetoric about ‘industrial FOMO’ disguises the true intent of this bill which hands sweeping powers to the Premier to override the very safeguards that protect our environment, our communities, and our democracy.

This is not ‘development’.

It is a power grab that places corporate and foreign interests above the people of WA.

Decisions would be made behind closed doors, protections stripped away, and scrutiny bypassed.

West Australians should remember the WA Inc era of the 1980s, when Brian Burke and his colleagues pursued backroom deals that eroded accountability, undermined our democratic process, and damaged public trust.

This bill risks legitimising the same double standards under the guise of ‘development’.

We cannot afford to repeat history by concentrating unchecked power in the hands of one Premier.

ST Johns

Stoneville