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Shop local and you could WIN!

When you shop local, you're allowing someone like Alyce (above) to send her kids to local singing and dancing lessons.  This not only benefits her kids but helps grow our local community making Cockburn a more vibrant, sustainable and fun place to live.

How to enter
Spend a minimum of $10 each at three separate Cockburn businesses between 1 October and 15 November and email your receipts to shoplocal@cockburn.wa.gov.au to go into the draw to win some awesome prizes. T&C applies. 
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A pawesome doggy event

The Cockburn Fur Run boasts lots of fun activities for you and your pooch including a pooch parade! You can also register/renew your dog's registration before the 1 November deadline at the event.

Other activities include:
  • Agility course
  • Expert behavioural tips
  • Mutt Strutt fashion show
  • Discounted dog wash.


Sunday 18 October, 10am-1pm, Manning Park, Hamilton Hill.
A day at the fair!

The kids will be excited when you tell them you're spending a day at Cockburn Rotary Spring Fair.

Enjoy a game or two at sideshow alley, visit various stalls, taste yummy foods and see stage performances at the Frosh Youth Festival. 

This year's theme is 'Stay Safe' so you will see roaming entertainers demonstrating the innovative ways they stayed safe this year.

Sunday 25 October, 11am-8pm, Manning Park, Hamilton Hill.

 
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Share your passion for social inclusion 

International  Day of People with Disability

Be inspired to make a change in your community at a Social Inclusion Forum this December. Join with like-minded people and listen to thought-provoking presentations by industry professionals on what it means to be included in the community. Suitable for professionals and volunteers in the sport, recreation and community sectors. The forum will consist of practical tips and advice that you can implement in your community.

If you share a passion for social inclusion, don't miss this inspiring forum.
Register today. (Live streaming option also available)

Friday 2 December 2020, 3.30-6.30pm, Coogee Beach Surf Lifesaving Club. 
Cost $25 per person.
Register
Museum closed 30 October - 15 November

The Azelia Ley Homestead Museum has closed for a short time for renovations, but don't despair the Wagon House adjacent to the Museum will remain open on Sundays. The Wagon House is where all the old wagons, trucks, carriages, potato diggers and carrot washers are kept along with other historic agricultural machinery. 
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Nominate your local hero

Do you know someone who has changed the lives of others for the better? Or a local hero doing amazing things in your community? Nominate them for the 2021 Australia Day Community Citizen of the Year Awards. It could change their life or yours.
Closes 31 October.
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Renew your love of bike riding

October is WA bike month and it's a great excuse to explore Cockburn and get some exercise while you're doing it. Activities include:
  • A community bike ride (Sun 18 October, 9am)
  • Back on your bike session (Sat 17 October, 10am) and
  • Discover Cockburn rides (Wed 14 and 21 October, 4pm)
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Be a good cat owner, keep them safe at home

Keeping cats happy at home extends their average life expectancy from just three years to between 12 and 18 years. It also helps preserve 46 per cent of Australia’s threatened fauna that live in our cities and towns.

Cockburn is one of six local governments in the southern Perth metropolitan region to launch the Happy at Home campaign this month. It's an education program for cat owners keen to keep their feline friends and native fauna safe from harm.
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Animal Management and Exercise Plan

The City's newly adopted Animal Management and Exercise Plan will enable about 40 per cent of Cockburn's coast to be accessible to dogs and provide more off-leash dog exercise areas at large public open spaces.

The plan will also create a new local cat law in 2021, prohibiting them from conservation and bushland areas and confine cats to their owners' property for their own protection and that of local fauna, by 2025. 
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Planning reforms to help West Australians

The Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage is reviewing the Planning and Development (Local Planning Schemes) Regulations 2015 as part of Western Australia's COVID-19 recovery plan.

Consultation is sought on thirty proposed changes to local planning regulations that will exempt small residential and non-residential projects from needing development approval.

For further information on the proposed amendments click the button below.
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These items are open for your feedback

Fig Tree proposed for City's Heritage Inventory
There has been a proposal for the City to add a significant fig tree located to the west of Dixon Park, north of Rockingham Rd, Hamilton Hill to its Heritage Inventory. We are seeking community feedback on whether the tree holds social or historical value.


Proposed Structure Plan Lots 11, 74 and 9046, Beenyp Rd, Banjup
The plan proposes a mix of R30 and R60 to enable subdivision of land into housing lots, the extension of the local road network from Prosperity Loop, Gibbs Rd north to south link, a wetland buffer and open public space. 

Planning application - High Care Nursing Home in Beeliar
The City has received a planning application for a High Care Nursing home on Merevale Gardens, Beeliar. 

Removal of Norfolk Pine Tree in Hamilton Hill
A planning application has been submitted for the removal of one of the four Norfolk Pine Trees located at 104 Forrest Rd, Hamilton Hill. The tree is included in the City's 'Significant Tree' list within the Heritage Inventory. 

A tavern at Pantheon Ave, North Coogee
The City has received a Planning Application Change of Use request for a Retail and Restaurant to change into a Tavern at units 3 and 4/72 Pantheon Ave, North Coogee. 
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