Sydney’s great on development plans. It’s not so good on implementing them. Since the end of World War II, the country’s largest city has come up with two big-picture schemes to manage growth – and they’ve fallen well short of ambitions.
The latest attempt to manage the growth of housing, infrastructure and economic development – the Greater Cities Commission – is in doubt. And if that falls apart, it will mark 70 years of failure, worsening a housing shortage that routinely puts Sydney among the world’s most unaffordable cities.