Roller shutters Port Kennedy

These are the burglary counts WA Police recorded for Port Kennedy for four years between 2017 and 2025:

• 2017: 173
• 2021: 113
• 2024: 44
• 2025: 44

The five year direction is clearly down. The 2025 count is 61.1% lower than 2021 and 74.6% lower than 2017, and the last two years held level at 44. Spread across the population, 2025 works out at 3.3 burglaries per 1,000 residents, under the metropolitan Perth rate of 4.0. As with every suburb, the total covers homes and businesses together.

Motor vehicle thefts dropped too, from 33 in 2021 to 8 in 2025.

A shutter does one practical thing for security. It is a physical barrier on windows and doors, so forced entry becomes slower and noisier. It sits alongside the locks, alarm and sensor lights that WA Police list in their burglary advice, not in place of them.

The suburb is named after the port feature in Warnbro Sound that Surveyor General JS Roe named in 1859 after Governor Sir Arthur Kennedy. Its housing is mostly detached: 93.7% of occupied dwellings were separate houses in the 2021 Census, with 6.1% semi-detached or townhouses and no flats recorded. Home ownership was 73.4%, above the Greater Perth figure of 70.4%.

For houses, residential roller shutters on bedrooms and glass doors are the main job. We make each one in Wangara from Ozroll components and test it before it leaves the factory.

Townhouse owners have two strata steps under the default by-laws: written consent from the strata company for anything visible from outside that is not in keeping with the building, and 14 days written notice before altering the structure of the lot. Landgate notes that strata approval is in addition to any development and building approvals.

Alfrescos and patios suit Ziptrak or Slidetrack outdoor blinds, which we also build in Wangara.

Port Kennedy sits in the City of Rockingham, and the City's development applications page says a single house, including patio additions, does not need development approval on residential zoned land. That matches the state exemption, which holds only when the R-Codes apply, the work meets the deemed-to-comply provisions and the home is not heritage protected.

Bushfire mapping adds a condition. The state rules switch the exemptions off on bushfire prone land where approval is required at BAL-40 or BAL-FZ, and in a special control area whose provisions call for approval. With most of the suburb mapped, check your assessment before you order.