A mobile hair salon in Bassendean has been given the chop after the local council voted against its application to operate as a home business on Tuesday night.

Cecilia’s House of Hair operated on Walter Road East in Bassendean for 28 years until the owner closed the salon in October 2024 and started mobile business Cecilia’s Salon on Wheels.

In November, the town received complaints from several residents on Ivanhoe Street in Bassendean about a hairdressing business operating from a van parked in a driveway on the street.

The owner later submitted an application in December for retrospective approval to operate as a home business.

The application was advertised for public comment and received “strong objections,” with reasons citing the intensity of the business, noise, parking, and “d

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