Roller shutters Champion Lakes

Champion Lakes is a small suburb, and its burglary numbers are small too. WA Police recorded 33 burglaries in 2021 and 18 in 2025, so the count has come down over five years, with 24 in 2024 in between. Across 2021 to 2025 the average was 21.4 a year.

The 2025 rate is 13.3 per 1,000 residents, against 4.0 for metropolitan Perth. It is calculated on only 1,355 residents from the 2021 Census, and the population has grown an estimated 16.4% from then, so the rate overstates. In a suburb this size, a handful of incidents moves it a long way.

The police count takes in homes and businesses together. On any house, a roller shutter is a physical barrier on windows and doors, and it makes forced entry slower and noisier.

Separate houses made up 92.5% of Champion Lakes dwellings at the 2021 Census, against 77.8% across Greater Perth. Semi-detached and townhouse dwellings were 1.0% and flats 0.6%, and home ownership was 71.7%.

On houses like these the work tends to fall into two parts. Inside the line of the house, residential roller shutters go on bedrooms and glass doors. Outside, the alfresco takes Ziptrak or Slidetrack blinds running in side tracks, or cafe and motorised blinds. All of them are made in our Wangara factory, with marine grade aluminium frames cut to your opening.

Motorised blinds can also be fitted with sun and wind sensors that adjust automatically to changing weather.

The state rules come first. Shutters on a single house do not need development approval if the R-Codes apply, the work meets the deemed-to-comply provisions and the house is not heritage protected. Champion Lakes is not one of the localities on the City of Armadale Heritage List. On bush fire prone land, though, a site assessed at BAL-40 or BAL-FZ needs development approval for the kinds of development the bushfire provisions cover, despite any exemption.

The City's Designing Out Crime policy asks that shutters, where they are needed, be used sparingly, stay visually permeable and suit the design of the building. It guides how development applications are assessed rather than ruling shutters out.

For the cost, the City's Security Incentive Scheme 2026 to 2027 includes roller shutters: $200, rising to $250 for holders of a Pensioner Concession, Health Care or WA Seniors Card. With 17.0% of residents aged 65 or over, the state WA Seniors Card Safety and Security Rebate, up to $400 per household for security window screens or window shutters, may also suit.