Gary's Guidance

The Karridale community have been denied any explanation as to why the plan they favoured for development of their location was rejected without official comment from the professional planning team at the Shire of Augusta Margaret River. Gary and his team have given us no insight into what guided their decision making processes.

Economic Sustainability?

I still haven’t been sent any clear definitions of sustainable development and so I’ll just plod on with considering it to be some form of development that allows a community to thrive and flourish in a way that supports a shared perception that there is a worthwhile future.

Sustainable Society?

Sustainable Society?

What does this mean? We often hear sustainable this, or sustainable that, but does anyone explain to the community what having their social, economic and environmental development planned in ways that are sustainable will mean in ways we can understand? The answer is a very definite NO!

The Wonder of Woolies

The wonder of woollies that causes many residents distress can possibly be explained by the apparent injustice of the process preceding the decision. The speed with which all community aspirations were swept aside in order to deliver a new shire office building was bound to be recognised by the residents as a demonstration of inequity in both planning and complete lack of self-determination for the residents. 

Withering words?

“Demonizing”, “shire bashing” these are all emotive words that can be used to describe a person with a different point of view. Withering words intended to cut the opposition down to size.

The Prevelly Development Trust

Apart from being another piece of inappropriate development in a high bushfire risk area is there a common factor in the development of Prevelly and the development of Karridale?

Why did they buy Kalkarri Rise?

In response to the post "Community Engagement" James asked the question, "didn't the residents of Kalkarri Rise know there was a state forest adjacent?"