City of Stirling

... [laughs] which we are familiar with, but many people probably wouldn't be.

It's a bit of a, a strange like planning term, but basically means that the planning decisions got handed back to the, the city of Stirling rather than the state government.

Um, and they have two sites there, so, uh, totaling around, around 5,000 square meters.

Uh, and there's a 2,500-ish s- square meter site, and the council says that they are seeking input from hospitality providers in particular.

Yeah.

Yep, for sure.

Anyway, uh, staying in the city of Stirling, of course, which is, it's our largest local government area surely in the metropolitan region.

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Her enduring legacy includes guiding major regional projects and empowering residents across the state.

And in Western Australia, the city of Stirling has set out a vision for two vacant sites at Scarborough Beach, together covering 4,700 square metres in the centre of the foreshore.

The city is progressing planning for the northern site as public space for sport, recreation and events.

For the southern site, it's launching an expression of interest process for a low-scale, hospitality-led, family-friendly destination of one or two storeys.

Councillor Robinson's term is due to expire in 2029.

The City of Stirling is backing Bowls Australia's 2026 Nationals, which are underway at three of its bowling clubs and run until the 23rd of October.

Mount Lawley, North Beach and Osborne Park are hosting 31 national titles across six championships.

The City has contributed a $115,000 sponsorship package.

Well, the club was formed in 1962.

We had some land at the Des Penman Reserve set aside by the city of Stirling and the club basically grew from there.

People around the area came down and had a hit and, of course, as we had more people come along, so we put more courts in.

I mean, these days we've got three bays of courts, which is 18 grass courts.

So, yeah, then we had to convince the council that it was something that would save the club.

So, yeah.

The City of Stirling made some funds available for us to paint some lines on the hard courts and then we approached Amber Jade Sanderson and asked if there was anything that the government could assist us with, and they helped us buy some nets and paddles and a few other things, and we haven't turned back.

It's just gone gangbusters since then.

I guess that comes from the last season of setting up down there from what, donations?

Yeah, so we have local sponsors and the City of Stirling is our main sponsor who help us with things like that and we also have a few local businesses in the community who are just incredible at helping and So, yeah, they contribute towards the market and then that sum of money would go towards our local makers and all of our free wellness activities, our mini makers program and all of our sustainability initiatives to keep the market running.

Hmm.

It's a fantastic event.

So I had a two-year-old and I was about to give birth and I had submitted the proposal originally to the city of Perth for expo and they were very keen for me to bring it in.

But then luckily I always envisioned Scarborough being the place to, to, sort of launch year I knew that was where I wanted to launch Xpro if anywhere within Australia so I held out um and and kept sort of plotting ideas throughout maternity leave and then submitted it the following year to the city of Stirling and that's where Xpro launched so the the biggest challenge I'd say was that Xpro doesn't have a giant corporation behind it it's really just me sharing that vision I had and getting people to believe in it for that first year that was probably the biggest challenge it took a lot of resilience on my part wearing different hats sort of pitching that that and I had no visuals right I had no lots of events when you see nice decks and nice websites and great social media which we have now but at the beginning I was just pitching an idea and I'd say whether it was negotiating with you know major partners or vendors or talking to presenters or exhibitors, it was getting them to believe in my vision to be able to create it and get it off the ground.

So it's something I'm incredibly proud of that I was able to do.

And since that first year, I think I've proved that that concept works.

So you heard this pretty early today.

City of Stirling putting out some signs warning against swooping.

Dylan sent us one.

Good name, Dylan.

I'm going to get to you in just a moment.

Also coming up, we'll touch base with Adam Papalia, talk a little sport.

And we'll get into this Magpie stuff as well, word on the street, talking about those signs out at City of Stirling.

A few of you have seen those.

So trying to find, I mean, some of the quotes are ridiculous, but I don't think they just looked at it or anything.

So, but yeah, it's just working with the city of Stirling as well.

So obviously it's quite regulated in Australia as well.

Yeah.

So yeah, that's probably the best time to sign up.

It does go a little bit more to $40, but hopefully a pretty good event for $30 right now.

Did you say City of Stirling?

Yeah.