Council slammed for opposing park plan for terminally ill children

It's a mini portion of onshore successful Perth's westbound creating a large problem.

Planning and Lands Minister John Carey coming stepped successful and overruled nan City of Nedlands successful their determination to reason plans to move nan Swanborne land, located adjacent to a children's hospice, into a parkland for terminally sick kids.

"I've not seen thing for illustration it, I deliberation Nedlands is 1 of nan worst councils successful Western Australia," Carey said.

Carey moved successful to return nan onshore astatine Allen Park disconnected assembly hands.

"This is nan correct decision," he said.

"It is simply a damning indictment of nan Nedlands assembly and their guidance to some nan hospice and now this park."

The Perth Children's Hospital Foundation is building nan hospice, which will beryllium fresh for terminally sick children from mid-next year.

"We are delighted that nan City of Nedlands has been made irrelevant and we tin get connected pinch building a beautiful autochthonal bushland," Ian Campbell from Perth Children's Hospital Foundation said.

"They person been an astonishing irritation, conscionable for illustration a mosquito that won't spell away."

The spot of onshore is conscionable 3000 quadrate metres, which is astir nan size of two-and-a-half Olympic swimming pools.

Despite aggregate attempts, nan City of Nedlands refused to reply our questions aliases talk connected camera today.

Instead releasing a matter connection statement, saying "the organization has expressed interest regarding nan bushfire area and ensuring nationalist entree done Allen Park to nan formation astatine each times".

Carey labelled it "nimby-ism gone mad".

"It makes perfectly nary consciousness to want to support a barren onshore location alternatively of a beautiful plot that will service families and sick and dying children," he said.

The Minister will put nan mobility earlier parliament successful 10 days time.

After 2 weeks, if nary 1 disagrees, onshore ownership will alteration and go authorities land.

A mobility nan guidance says it supports.

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