PLEASE HELP COLLECT SIGNATURES FOR A PETITION

Mt Claremont Residents Association members collecting petition signatures at the Mt Claremont Growers Market

I had a lot of fun today talking to residents and visitors to the Mount Claremont Growers Market . We collected dozens of signatures from people concerned at the Christmas Eve announcement by the WA Government that all planning control over the Old Swanbourne Hospital would be transferred to the WA Planning Commission, removing our elected local government from the approval process.

Our petition is to the WA Parliament Upper House - called the Legislative Council - calling on the Members of the Legislative Council to recommend to the Minister for Heritage that he does not proceed with the proposed Order removing the City of Nedlands from planning control over the Old Swanbourne Hospital.

The Residents Association petition is full of legal language, but is drawn from the language used in the Notice published in the Western Australian Government Gazette just before Christmas.  You can download a PDF file copy of the Notice from here.

You can help us collect more signatures for the petition by downloading the petition from here   in Word format, printing off some copies, collecting signatures on the form and then delivering or mailing them to the address at the foot of the petition.  Please - this is important:

- don't change any of the words - because the Legislative Council is very particular about how petitions need to be worded.
- send in the ORIGINAL document - not a copy.

You don't have to be a Mount Claremont resident to sign the petition, you just need to be a resident of the State of Western Australia.

You can also send an email to the Mount Claremont Residents Association at president@mountclaremont.org offering your support if you would like to help the Association collect petition signatures or distribute flyers.

Thanks for your support.

David Thomas