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'Protecting a liquor store by destroying a school'
A major tunnelling site for the WestConnex motorway is likely to be established next to an inner city high school instead of an area used for a bottle shop.
Jacob Saulwick is City Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.
A major tunnelling site for the WestConnex motorway is likely to be established next to an inner city high school instead of an area used for a bottle shop.
A state policy on housing affordability will be announced in the "very near future", says new Planning Minister Anthony Roberts.
Pubs and other venues would be able to host acoustic music and other forms of "low impact" entertainment without the need for government approval, under a plan being pushed by a Labor MP.
Ratepayers in Sydney's south-west will be slugged half a million dollars because of the state government's failure to implement its own laws.
When Jan Gehl was hired by the City of Sydney in 2007 to help make the city a more attractive place to live and work, the renowned architect and urbanist focused on the fact that so much of Sydney's space was given over to cars.
Randwick Council will become just the fourth local government in Sydney allowed to levy developers for affordable housing contributions across the council area.
It was a policy dictated from the heart of commercial Sydney but if the state's council amalgamations plans are defeated, it will have been because of political power exercised from RSL clubs, town halls, and showgrounds on the other side of the Great Dividing Range.
In the days following Gladys Berejiklian's statement that she wanted to ensure "every average hardworking person in this state can aspire to own their own home," the premier's actions have served only to undermine that goal.
The Berejiklian government is considering using plebiscites to allow residents to decide the future of the state's councils, in a potential major about-turn from one of the Coalition's signature policies.
Trucks repaired with gaffer tape and ride on mowers without windscreens. These are examples of how Botany Bay Council's vehicle fleet has fallen into disrepair.
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