Right suburb, right site, right scale. The lesson was there for anyone who wanted it – initial objection and eventual outcome are rarely the same thing. A live proposal on Angelo Street – at a fraction of the height of those original towers – is drawing the same tenor of complaint. Good planning depends on scrutiny, and Perth is better for having a public genuinely engaged in how its suburbs grow. Western Australia will not close its housing shortfall while precincts already zoned for growth resist the very density which zoning was created to deliver.