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(http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/wa/5860944/city-of-perth-plea-to-extend-boundary/)
LISA CALAUTTI, The West Australian August 26, 2009, 1:14 pm
The City of Perth wants to extend its northern boundary to Bulwer Street to improve its capital city status.
Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi said the current boundaries constrained the city's ability to enhance its vitality.
As part of the council's submission on local government reform, it has proposed the city's boundary be drawn along an 'appropriate radius' to allow it to control the range of facilities expected in a capital city, considering its role as a centre for commerce, government, culture and education.
The council hopes its call to include areas within the Town of Vincent in its borders - a request first submitted to the Local Government Advisory Board in 2006 - will be considered.
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OK, so moving the boundary north to Bulwer Street would sort of make sense, and maybe I'm just being paranoid and seeing conspiracies, but MES is on the south side of Bulwer Street.
Maybe this is a good thing, the City of Perth would have more money (and probably more political clout) to development MES and the surrounding area than the Town of Vincent, but are they as willing?