Mayors decry Perth council boundary plan THERE'S been a largely negative response to the West Australian government's revised plan for expanding the City of Perth's boundary. Under the state government's contentious plan to force local councils to merge - reducing the number from 30 to 14 - the inner-city boundary will be broadened to include James Packer's Crown Casino, two hospitals in Nedlands, Kings Park and the University of Western Australia. And the City of Perth would completely swallow the Town of Vincent, to the north of the city. The City of Perth would prefer to split Vincent with the City of Stirling and also wants the ageing Belmont Park Racecourse, which is being eyed for a new residential development, but the state government has not included that in its preferred model. Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi says she's disappointed with the revisions. While the WA government said it had listened to the residents of Vincent, saying they were in favour of the plan, Ms Scaffidi labelled the claim "a selective consideration of the community's views" that cited a recent poll with "very low participation." The Town of Victoria Park is also miffed, with Mayor Trevor Vaughan saying 97 per cent of locals who responded to a recent poll were against the proposal to strip it of Crown Casino. But the university is in favour of being included in the City of Perth because it is currently split between three councils. "It adds unnecessary time delays and unnecessary expense to get the simplest things done around parking, waste management, public transport and planning," vice-chancellor Paul Johnson said.