Planning
‘Height uplift’: Bid for tall towers to overshadow Newstead House
Developers continue to challenge height restrictions with a promise to provide more inner-city housing. The latest area of contention is around Breakfast Creek.
- by Sean Parnell
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‘Hang our heads in shame’: Locals join public housing tenants’ development fight
Port Melbourne residents have joined forces with former tenants of the Barak Beacon public housing block to fight plans to build an 11-storey tower on the site.
- by Cara Waters
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Vocational training
Victoria’s worst free TAFE completion rates revealed
Just 1 per cent of Victorians who registered for a free plumbing course in recent years successfully completed their training.
- by Broede Carmody
Analysis
Housing crisis
Housing is Sydney’s biggest crisis. Now targets are here, the hard work starts
The plan is clear: the city’s west will keep expanding, but now the east and north must too. Above all, the housing must be delivered.
- by Alexandra Smith
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Revealed: The number of new homes coming to your Sydney suburb
Some parts of Sydney’s north and east have had their housing targets tripled and quadrupled under figures released by the state government today.
- by Michael Koziol, Michael McGowan and Anthony Segaert
Want schools? Build housing: Premier dangles the carrot to Sydney
The Minns government will tie funding for key local infrastructure to councils which meet and beat new five-year housing targets.
- by Michael McGowan and Alexandra Smith
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Revealed: How Sydney’s housing push will be watered down
A “policy refinement paper” obtained by the Herald reveals several land zones will be excluded from the forthcoming low- and mid-rise housing policy, among other concessions to local councils.
- by Michael Koziol
The ‘zombie’ housing projects linked to Sydney’s housing crisis
Sydney property prices are at record highs and rental vacancies at historic lows, but new homes are struggling to get off the ground.
- by Matt Wade
50-cent fares: Who wins big in plan for cheap public transport tickets
Transport planners say there’s a lot about south-east Queensland’s system that Labor’s “radical” cost-of-living measure will not fix.
- by Tony Moore
Farmland or townhouses? The fight for the future of Daylesford
Like many areas, Daylesford is facing a housing crisis. But some locals fear a plan to extend the popular spa town’s urban boundaries will threaten its very identity.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Who are the YIMBYs? Inside the group that is shaking up Melbourne’s neighbourhoods
The YIMBYs want to rewrite the planning rules, scrap heritage overlays and start a housing revolution. And they have the ear of government.
- by Royce Millar and Rachael Dexter