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Planning
These maps showed the risk of flooding at Rosehill mini-city
Flood risk evaluations of the Rosehill ‘mini-city’ site show what needs to be considered before 25,000 apartments could be built there.
- by Max Maddison
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Empty church ignites tension between heritage and housing
The fate of a church in Melbourne’s inner north raises questions about preserving the past and meeting the needs of the community.
- by Tom Cowie
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Property development
The inside story of how Rosehill got on Sydney’s housing map
In a two-week period late last year, the Australian Turf Club went from insisting there was “definitely no plan” to relinquish Rosehill Racecourse to approaching the government with a plan to build 25,000 new homes.
- by Michael McGowan and Max Maddison
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State Parliament
New Sydney housing targets rattle advocates and developers
Details about the government’s transport development zones have peak community housing groups as well as developers in agreement.
- by Max Maddison
Sydney Water denies old pipes and sewers cannot cope with more housing
The state-owned corporation also says it would be able to service housing growth at many more sites across the city.
- by Michael Koziol
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Opinion
Failing golf courses should be reimagined for the many, not the few
When inner-city land for housing or other community purposes is in short supply, aren’t all those lush fairways a luxurious use of land we no longer can sustain?
- by Lee Tulloch
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Planning
‘Watershed moment’: 14-storey tower in Frankston’s ‘Great Wall’ gets green light
A contentious high-rise apartment building, part of Frankston’s “Great Wall” overlooking Port Phillip Bay, has been approved.
- by Benjamin Preiss, Ashleigh McMillan and Lachlan Abbott
Merrick Watts’ simple rule during Eltham pub fights: ‘Grab the till and run’
Once Eltham was an “amazing dichotomy between ruthless bogans and the arts”. Nowadays, the leafy suburb is fighting not to look like everywhere else.
- by Clay Lucas
Hole lotta love could turn this quarry into a ‘South Bank’ by 2032
An internationally prominent urban planner believes a plan to rejuvenate Mount Coot-tha Quarry should be a project of state significance. And it can be ready by the Olympics, he says.
- by Tony Moore
Tennis bosses court Games organisers for more nets in Brisbane
With the Brisbane International regularly selling out, an expected 44 per cent more matches for the Olympics could be too much for the Queensland Tennis Centre.
- by Tony Moore
SEQ’s new ‘Gateway to Straddie’ in doubt as Walker abandons Toondah Harbour
Queensland Greens senator Larissa Waters wants the state government to upgrade Cleveland’s Toondah Harbour, while protecting endangered wetlands, rather than leaving it to the private sector.
- by Tony Moore