A report re-examining the $33 million purchase of land near the Western Sydney Airport found no evidence of poor integrity,criminal activity or personal benefit to the officers involved that swayed their decisions.
Western Sydney Airport CEO Simon Hickey said the segment defied predictions after September 11 and other crises and will do so again.
The first study of its kind by the state’s valuer general found that property values rose years ahead of rezonings,some by almost 250 per cent.
A new city is an opportunity to set out a new vision - but the premier missed it.
Bradfield will be built adjacent to Sydney’s second airport at Bringelly and will grow into a third city,alongside the other city centres of Sydney and Parramatta.
The cost to build the state government’s marquee airport rail line will far outweigh any benefit it generates,the country’s peak infrastructure body has warned.
Two major design changes have been made to the future M12 motorway linking Sydney to the new airport as the cost of the project continues to swell.
Stuart Ayres has conceded there are serious questions over the adequacy of the state’s compulsory acquisition laws,following widespread community anger over the buy-up of land for an $11 billion rail line.
The audit office says the infrastructure department is only investigating one of two key people involved in a $33 million purchase of land near Western Sydney airport.
Small landowners say the compulsory acquisition process for the Western Sydney Airport rail line is taking an enormous toll.
It cements in a last-century transport model that diminishes our connection with nature then surrounds it with a lot of drive-to,depressing building blocks.