Roller shutters for Mundaring homes

There were 8 burglaries in Mundaring in 2025, by the WA Police count. Set against 3,190 residents, the rate is 2.5 per 1,000, well below the 4.0 for metropolitan Perth.

Yearly counts here are too small to read a trend from. Police recorded 41 in 2017, 20 in 2021 and 7 in 2024, and the average from 2021 to 2025 was 11.6 a year. None were recorded in the first six months of 2026.

Low numbers are welcome, but a shutter is about the house in front of you. Down, it is a physical barrier on windows and doors, and it makes forced entry slower and noisier.

Landgate dates permanent settlement in Mundaring to 1882-84, and MH Jacoby adopted the name for the Mundaring Vineyard Company in 1893. Today the suburb is mostly houses: 92.2% of occupied homes were separate houses in 2021, and 6.9% were semi-detached or townhouses. 84.8% were owned, and 45.8% were owned outright.

For a house, start with residential roller shutters on the rooms you use most and the largest glass. We make each one in Wangara from Ozroll aluminium slats, pelmets and guides, and test it before it travels out, and there is a 10-year warranty on roller shutters.

If you own a townhouse in a strata scheme, talk to the strata company first. The default by-laws need its written consent for anything visible from outside your lot that is not in keeping with the building.

For a deck or alfresco, cafe blinds, Ziptrak, Slidetrack and motorised outdoor blinds are all options.

Shutters on a single house in the Shire of Mundaring are exempt from development approval under the state rules, but only if the R-Codes apply, the work is deemed-to-comply, and the home is not heritage protected. A further exception covers bush fire prone land: a site rated BAL-40 or flame zone can need approval.

Mundaring itself has places on the Shire's Heritage List. Under the Shire's own policies, the exemptions in Local Planning Policy 3.5 apply only to places not on that list, and Local Planning Policy 3.3 limits the exemptions for listed places to a short set of cases, such as internal works and maintenance. For anything else on a listed home, the Shire says development approval will usually be needed, and the proposal may be referred to the Heritage Council of Western Australia.

With so many residents aged 65 or over, the WA Seniors Card Safety and Security Rebate deserves a mention. It lists security window screens or window shutters as eligible, up to $400, and it can be claimed once.