Council election in Mosman Park WA
It's local council election time in Mosman Park WA and important who you chose.
So if you live in the northern part of Mosman Park you might be interested in councilor Libby Eustance. I know her from several environmental and sustainable happenings and think she would be a good person to have on board of the local council!
Check out her website for more information, click here. You can comment on a lot of issues on her site, so please have a look.
I wish she was in my local council... I went for the first time to a council meeting in Claremont this week and was shocked by the stiff atmosphere. I went to ask questions about the cutting of 39 mature trees in our street to replace them with a 3 story modern school building while we are in a heritage zone and they have plenty of space a bit further from the road so they can both keep the trees and keep the heritage feel. I think they didn't like my question as I didn't get much of an answer they are just like a lot of other councils out for greed, lots of commercial stuff to get more money and it doesn't matter to them that all green has to make way for concrete... so sad...
Hi Wilma,
ReplyDeleteI used to work for local government, and I worked for the Town of Claremont for three years as the urban strategic planner. Some of my documents are Connecting Claremont: Traffic and Transport Strategy, Clearly Claremont: Local Planning Strategy and the Street and Laneway Activation Plan.
I was fighting a losing battle in Council to try to get good initiatives started. I was halfway in producing the Local Planning Scheme for the Town and hit so many barriers in trying to introduce a Municipal Inventory for our street trees and also begin voluntary covenants of private land owners for retention of their trees from future development.
It would be ideal to get back to the Town of Claremont as a Councillor with inside knowledge on how to get some of these plans implemented. I'm sure there's going to be a few nervous executives at the Town hoping against all hope I don't make them do any meaningful work!
I could use your help and advice on these issues of tree preservation - I'm only starting to get my teeth into it in preparation for getting on Council.
Hope I get your vote :-)