The application was made after a police raid in May last year that drew the attention of council authorities.<\/p>\n
Former police officer, turned Canning mayor, Patrick Hall, strongly objected to the gang\u2019s application at the time.<\/p>\n
Councillors voted unanimously to reject the Bandidos\u2019 development application at last week\u2019s council meeting, after debating an item to reconsider the club\u2019s application. The city received 67 public submissions on the application – 64 of them objected to the club\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n
Mr Hall disclosed an impartiality interest in the item due to his past comments.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrevious comments I\u2019ve made publicly in relation to the Bandidos\u2019 outlaw motorcycle club may be perceived by others as demonstrating a degree of apprehended bias. That\u2019s not the case,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m fully aware and accepting of my responsibility to deal with all planning matters in a quasi-judicial manner, having regard only to the facts of the matter and assessing them against the relevant planning framework.\u201d<\/p>\n
He urged councillors to support the officer\u2019s recommendation to refuse the application.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe officer\u2019s recommendation has appropriately considered the impacts on amenity of residential properties within close proximity of the site, and (it) aligns and responds to the views received from the community during the advertising process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe proposed development is incompatible with the intended future character of the locality, and will have a significant detrimental impact on surrounding land.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the report, the club premises would accommodate up to 100 patrons with proposed 24-hour weekend operations.<\/p>\n
Cr Michelle Hurn said controlling the behaviour of this many people, particularly with alcohol involved, was \u201cunrealistic\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is no genuine and binding commitment to manage noise once the application is approved,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cResponsibility then falls on local residents and the city officers to manage noise compliance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the premises were on the opposite side of the road, the application would have been stronger as the proximity to residential housing is the key issue in my consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Camera IconPlans submitted by the Bandidos OMCG for its \u2018motorcycle-themed mens shed\u2019 clubhouse at Willetton. unknown Credit: unknown\/supplied<\/p>\n
The club, accused of leading police on a dangerous freeway pursuit earlier this year, made the request in a desperate bid to stop its club house from being shut down.<\/p>\n
In January, the club saw 18 members charged by police, and their bikes seized following an alleged dangerous pursuit on the Kwinana Freeway.<\/p>\n
The club is an identified organisation under WA criminal law but their planning application makes clear that their \u2018men\u2019s shed\u2019 proposal is \u201cconsidered to clearly meet the scheme land-use definition of \u2018club premises\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
In its application, prepared by Planning Outcomes WA, the bikie club sought approval to host 60 members or family at the \u2018men\u2019s shed\u2019, with up to 100 guests for occasional events, which would not have been open to the public.<\/p>\n
It proposed operating the club between 8am-10pm Monday to Friday for deliveries, occasional cleaning and set-up, while on weekends, meetings would run from 5.30pm on Fridays to 6pm on Sundays.<\/p>\n
It asked that motorcycle fans will have access to a BYO bar and said the club hoped to apply for a liquor licence in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are not, and will not be, any firearms or firearm safes on the premises,\u201d the Bandidos reassured in the application.<\/p>\n
Ahead of the council\u2019s decision, the club had urged council staff to consider their \u201chuman right under international treaty to freedom of association\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an understandable tendency at first glance to regard the Bandidos MC as an \u2018outlaw gang\u2019 and therefore planning approval cannot or should not be granted for their clubrooms,\u201d the application says. \u201cHowever, the fact is that the mere existence of the club is not illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bandidos said they were willing to meet with neighbours to discuss any proposals outlined in the application.<\/p>\n
Local planning and development regulations, which were used to asses the Bandidos application, states a club premises means it is \u201cused by a legally constituted club or association or other body of persons united by a common interest\u201d.<\/p>\n
In its application, the Bandidos MC claimed they were \u201cclearly a body of persons united by a common interest of motorcycles\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf any crimes have been committed, or will in the future (crystal-balling), it is the individuals (not the club) that are investigated by WAPOL (not local government), they have legal rights to procedural fairness, and are presumed innocent until found guilty by a court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Hall said ahead of the council\u2019s decision last week that his \u201chands might be tied\u201d if the clubhouse met the planning laws.<\/p>\n
He called on the State Government to intervene and update the laws and said the definition of a club premises under planning laws needed to be urgently reviewed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t do this by ourselves. We need a full-court press,\u201d Mr Hall said. \u201cWe are standing up against a national, if not international crime gang. If the planning application complies with the current laws, it is likely to pass.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t have WA claiming to have the toughest anti-consorting laws in Australia, but at the same time, allow it to happen behind closed doors. It wasn\u2019t the government\u2019s intent for this to happen, but the door needs to be shut on it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to use every lever available to us to stop this . . . we need to give these gangs no place to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bandidos \u2018men\u2019s shed\u2019 on Kembla Way first drew the attention of police and council staff last year when community members reports seeing \u201cpatched\u201d members gathering from around Australia near the venue. Following the raid, two people were charged.<\/p>\n
Mr Hall took to social media at the time to say it was the first he had heard of the outlaw gang gathering in the city.<\/p>\n
A planning application was subsequently lodged after a directions notice and a building order for land-use and a sea-container on the property, was issued by council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canning council has knocked back a notorious bikie gang\u2019s request to turn their local clubhouse into a \u201cmotorcycle-themed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6589,312,1774,152,335,149,4316,464],"class_list":{"0":"post-5285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-perth","8":"tag-canning","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-local-government","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-perth","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-south","15":"tag-wa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}