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We visit the Hills frequently to spend time with our family there.
The expanse of bush, the variety of flora, the running streams and the safety all that affords the wildlife that lives amongst the area is reason enough to leave this area as is.
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Jennifer supported: Stop the Anglican Church from Bulldozing 60,000 Trees in Perth's HillsThis development is reckless, profit-driven, and utterly irresponsible. It threatens native bushland and vital wildlife habitat in a known bushfire-prone area with limited access, putting future residents and emergency responders at serious risk. When—not if—a bushfire occurs, it will endanger lives, inflate insurance premiums, and overwhelm already strained infrastructure: power (we lose it every year), phone reception, roads, schools, emergency services, and supermarkets.
Developers walk away from the consequences while the community is left to pay the price—financially, environmentally, and emotionally. I live on Stoneville Road and already struggle with congestion; adding more people will make everyday life unworkable.
Think of the animals. This land is home to countless native species who will lose their habitat and their lives if this goes ahead. Animal lives matter. In a time of escalating natural disasters, rising costs, and increasing crime, this kind of senseless expansion is unacceptable.
Most shameful of all is the role of the Anglican Church. Archbishop Kay Goldsworthy should be ashamed that the Church is enabling the destruction of this fragile, fire-prone land—selling out nature and its people for profit.
Enough is enough. Our community and our wildlife deserve better.
Kathleen supported: Stop the Anglican Church from Bulldozing 60,000 Trees in Perth's HillsOur native animals need their houses just as much as people do - go for infill over bulldozing bushland
Kelsey supported: Stop the Anglican Church from Bulldozing 60,000 Trees in Perth's HillsI have worked and lived in the hills for over 20 years and the idea of turning Stoneville into suburbia and increasing the risk to life and property from bush fires is completely ludicrous. I can't believe this development is even being considered as it is the complete opposite of the way of life people move to the hills to have.
Dion supported: Stop the Anglican Church from Bulldozing 60,000 Trees in Perth's HillsI live in the hills and the amount of pressure that already exists on the current infrastructure (go to Mundaring shops on a weekend and you’ll agree we can’t support a huge estate being built) and the pressure on local wildlife is enough without adding a new estate and 50k more people! :(
Georgia supported: Stop the Anglican Church from Bulldozing 60,000 Trees in Perth's HillsThis development will change the fabric of our community because once one big development is permitted, the rest will follow and our area will end up becoming the Joondalup of the East. Our community is essentially a small country town where some people have lived their whole lives, we are friendly with our neighbours and we celebrate our local people, businesses and events, and by adding a lot more houses and people, that will be completely destroyed. We live here and not down the hill for a reason, because we want to be part of this unique community, live in nature and have space to breathe; we don't want to be overrun by people with self-centred city mindsets, we don't want our community vibe to change which it naturally will as more and more people move here but also as these people start noisily making demands for things they prefer, we don't want flora and fauna be removed, and we don't want to live on top of our neighbours like they do down the hill, because that isn't living to us and our way of life needs protecting. I appreciate there is a housing supply issue, but this development is senseless and purely driven by financial greed; not only is it cutting down trees and plants as well as removing natural habitat for wildlife, but it's in a bushfire prone area that has limited access in and out, which increases the risk of a resident or emergency response person getting hurt when a bushfire inevitably occurs, and places extra strain on those also evacuating in and around the development, and this will undoubtedly increase everyone's insurance premiums once there have been a couple of bushfires, and it will place significant strain on our roads and services (electricity (we already have power outages every single year!), phone reception (ours drops out with every power outage), schools, supermarkets, emergency services, recreational facilities, etc.) that don't currently have the capacity to cater to many people and won't magically be improved and enhanced as a result because that funding isn't coming from the development. The developer essentially gets to drop and run, and not deal with any of the consequences (which is what they are doing all over Perth!), and the existing and new residents get left with a subpar and likely more costly standard of living. In a time where cost of living is high, our native trees are under attack from foreign pests and diseases, big development building is cookie cutter and shoddy, the weather is volatile creating more natural disasters, there's an increase in preventable diseases and there is more extreme crime, why would we invite that into our community? I live on Stoneville Road and getting out of my driveway just to go to the supermarket can be an ordeal sometimes because there's already so many people on the roads and at the shops, add in more people and it will be impossible. I'm saying enough is enough and I hope others share my sentiments.
Hayley supported: Stop the Anglican Church from Bulldozing 60,000 Trees in Perth's HillsOur shire has always been adamant about retaining as much flora on properties as possible. In fact, when I bought my small 1/2 acre here 35 years ago, I was fined by the shire for cutting down 2 trees that were hanging over the house that I considered a fire hazard. Now, for the sake of $$$$$ we see the approval of tiny metro sized blocks in what is still considered a rural area thereby ruining the appeal of the area and adding thousands of residents that we do not have the infrastructure to service.
Gordon supported: Stop the Anglican Church from Bulldozing 60,000 Trees in Perth's HillsOur family moved to the hills because of the natural beauty, wildlife and space. It is diabolical that they seem so comfortable destroying what we love cherish and value about wildlife.
We share this space we do not destroy the space!!!
We were not here first! We are not the only species, nor the most valuable species that lives in the hills.
Linda supported: Stop the Anglican Church from Bulldozing 60,000 Trees in Perth's HillsWe have lived up here in the hills for over 33 years - and loved the openness of the surrounding area - it would destroy the habitat of several ground animals and treetop nesting sites of several bird species in the area
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