Inner west residents are pushing back against the state’s largest ever build-to-rent development – because they want more affordable housing on the site.
Councils are publicly named and shamed over the time they take to approve housing developments. Now it is the government’s turn.
Townhouses and apartments can now be built,with fast-tracked approval,closer to footpaths and neighbours under sweeping changes.
One opponent argued that the 16-storey block proposed for the languishing Balmain Leagues Club site would be “as workable in Rozelle as a snowflake is in hell”.
A proposal to replace a bowling green with pickleball courts has the backing of some locals,but others have raised concerns about the noise and whether it will just be a “passing fad”.
Australia’s capital cities are home to a record 18.4 million people after their populations swelled by another 430,000 residents over the past year.
A critic has slammed the $300 million project as an “ill-conceived,wasteful and destructive assault” on the heritage of the museum’s 35-year home.
The decision to demolish the Gabba – but not a heritage-listed school – has set the scene for a vast urban renewal project in Brisbane’s inner-south.
Ku-ring-gai’s plans have been revealed months after the council took the state government to court in an attempt to block more intensive development.
In some neighbourhoods,properties have been selling at a loss,but it depends on their type.