The Montessori school in Rockingham is seeking to relocate that school from their current campus to a new site on Mandurah Road in Karnup. It is important to point out that the Rockingham Montessori school is a respectable and well established member of our community and this article is referring to the planning elements of [Read more…]
Parking around school Zones
Residents often raise concerns around school parking, or a lack of! The City and Council are often accussed of being the responsible entity and blamed for the lack of parking, this is not the case though. With normal developments there are rules that allow the city to ask for X number of parking bays. An [Read more…]
Councillors
Your feedback is required please. The City of Rockingham staff review the previous council elections as a matter of course and I believe this is an excellent opportunity to look at having some open conversations about Council, and your constructive feedback is required please. Currently there are 10 councillors and there are 4 ‘ward areas’ [Read more…]
Baldivis Dog Park
Baldivis Fully enclosed dog park coming this year! Baldivis is home to over 4500 registered dogs which makes our suburb, by far, the largest suburb in Rockingham per number of dogs. In May 2015 Cr Whitfield put forward a Notice of Motion, that was carried by the Council, to increase the number of declared dog [Read more…]
Resume advice for Baldivis Residents
Every Tuesday Cr Matt Whitfield publishes a list of around 60 jobs on his Facebook page. All of these jobs are taken from the major websites (seek, indeed, WA jobs) or are occasionally directly sent through to him. It has become apparent that the required level of resume, and cover letter, really needs to be [Read more…]
Baldivis Police Stats – Jan
A really productive City Safe meeting tonight where residents, councillors, volunteers and the police all come together to discuss (basically) how to make our City safer. I wanted to share some feedback from that meeting with you. In Baldivis the monthly crime stats are well down when compared to this time last year with the [Read more…]
V8 Supercar track near Baldivis
A Motorsport facility could be coming only 17km from Baldivis! Months ago sources close to this potential deal told me that the proponents would not even consider looking at sites within the City of Rockingham boundaries . Instead they have approached the Shire of Serpentine and Jarrahdale who have been exceedingly proactive in offering advice [Read more…]
Bankruptcies in Baldivis
Unfortunately there were more personal insolvencies than anywhere else in Australia with 107 bankruptcies in Baldivis in the 2016-17 financial year. Ordinarily stats such as this can normally be answered by saying that Baldivis is a large suburb, however there are much larger cities on this list and it appears to be a true reflection. [Read more…]
Outer Harbour Presentation
There was an outer harbour presentation tonight in Kwinana and CR Whitfield attended and this is not an article on the actual proposal in detail (that information can be found at the links at the bottom of this article), more of an overview of the evening itself. The Federal Member for Brand , Madeleine King, [Read more…]
New Baldivis Primary School
New Baldivis Primary school announced for Baldivis by the education minister today. Baldivis North (South East) Primary School will cater for 430 students and first-class art and music facilities will be incorporated into the $16 million school and is expected to open in 2020 with works to start as soon as possible. This will be [Read more…]
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