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Berejiklian's debacle: one rule for rich Sydney, another for everywhere else
If you live in a wealthy area of Sydney, Gladys Berejiklian's government thinks your views are more important than if you don't.
Jacob Saulwick is City Editor at The Sydney Morning Herald.
If you live in a wealthy area of Sydney, Gladys Berejiklian's government thinks your views are more important than if you don't.
The NSW government has walked away from one of its signature policies.
Councillors across Sydney and in parts of NSW would lose the ability to vote on development applications, under a proposal to be represented to NSW cabinet on Thursday.
In a city thick with "visions", "precinct plans" and "redevelopment schemes", it is worth acknowledging the results when the best laid plans go awry.
The Sirius building on the fringe of the Rocks will remain standing for some time yet.
Another 70,000 homes will be built across a stretch of central Sydney in the next 20 years.
A rapid bus system along Victoria Road and an extension of Sydney's eastern suburbs light rail line from Kensington to Malabar are, along with a tram down Parramatta Road, inner Sydney options recently analysed by Transport for NSW.
Detailed plans for a light rail line along Parramatta Road linking Sydney's central business district to Burwood were developed by the state's transport agency - but were abandoned several months ago.
New roads can be funded using taxes that could otherwise be spent on schools or hospitals. Or they can be funded using tolls.
Proposed changes to state planning laws could make it easier for mining proponents and developers to skirt community concerns, critics say.
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