Achievements in Bellevue, Western Australia

Some of our achievements

Graffiti Vandalism Project
Railway Heritage Trail Information
Telephone Booth Move
Craft Group
Traffic Calming & Management
Traffic Signals Clayton Off Ramp

In 2007 the association took up an idea put forward by Martin Chape to seek a grant to set up a pro-active early intervention graffiti vandalism project with school children. This was because the City's strategies at dealing with Graffiti Vandalism was mainly reactive in cleaning up.

After being refused funding by the Office of Crime Prevention a grant for $7500 was eventually provided by the City of Swan in 2008. The project consists of several parts.

Cheque Clayton View

Cheque from City of Swan

During 2008 a team of Media Studies students from Central TAFE worked on producing video content for teaching program to be run at Clayton View Primary School.

At the same time year students from Governor Stirling Senior High School researched the cost of graffiti vandalism and put together Power Point presentations. The best of these were taken and presented by the high school students to Clayton View Primary kids.

In late 2008 the Bellevue Ratepayers joined forces with a company, Learning Conversations, for the final part of the project, producing the teaching package.

It was intended previously to independently produce the teaching package for testing in Clayton View Primary.

	After finding that a package was being prepared professionally the video content from the first parts of the project were donated and Clayton View added to a list of primary school where the OCP project is being run. The teaching package was assessed at Clayton View primary and a number of other schools and is now and is now available for use from the WA government Goodbye Graffiti web site.

	Martin Chape JP and the late Mayor, Charlie Gregorini at the opening of the Information Bay on the Railway Heritage Trail, Bellevue. The association raised $8.5K to erect this public facility with the help of Department of Sport & Recreation, LotteryWest, City of Swan and the Midland Redevelopment Authority. It is hoped this will encourage a healthier population through walking for exercise.
The public phone shown right, on Great Eastern Highway, Bellevue close to the bottle shop was re-located as a result of lobbying by the ratepayers association. Telstra agreed to site this phone on the more public highway in return for removing two other phone booths in the back streets that attracted anti social behavior. The new location provides safety for customers with good passive surveillance whilst Telstra wins with reduced vandalism costs and complying with their customer service obligations. A good outcome for everyone with the revenue from the phone exceeding that of the two removed.
	The Bellevue "Chat and Do" Craft Group utilises our community building. The picture left shows Wendy Braithwaite from that group in the African Continent delivering toys made by the group to needy orphanage children. Contact the group if you are interested.
The association has been successful in having the City of Swan spend funds on a traffic study for Bellevue after the upgrade of the Great Eastern Hwy following the runaway truck crash. The inclusion of the underpass beneath Great Eastern Hwy connecting Bunninyong and Miller Roads has increased and altered traffic flows. Miller Rd, shown below, has a 50Kmh limit and traffic calming in the form of an centre island with trees. It is, at the association's lobbyng, subject to regular speed checks by police.

The roundabout, shown above, at Henkin and Clayton Streets is one direct outcome of the traffic study and the association's lobbying and was funded by City of Swan and Commonwealth Black Spot funds.

Unfortunately lack of coordination with Main Roads(MRWA) did not see the left-in, left-out at Clayton St/ Rason Pde go in when the traffic signals were installed there. This would have discouraged non local traffic using Rason Pde by making it go back up Clayton to the roundabout.

The traffic signals at Rason/Clayton, shown right, were installed by MRWA after lobbying by the association because of the dangerous problem exiting the Roe Hwy off-ramp into Clayton.

The association is working with the Swan Chamber of Commerce to have City of Swan carry improvements to Clayton between Roe and Military Road. We would like to see a traffic island in the centre and parking pockets to make it more shopper friendly, pedestrian safe and encourage property owners to improve their street frontages.