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Changed catchment zones for Killara High School

This north shore school catchment shake-up blindsided parents. Now there’s a delay

A controversial change to the catchment zone of one of Sydney’s top-performing comprehensive schools, Killara High, has been pushed back.

  • Nick Newling

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Changed catchment zones for Killara High School

It’s one of the north shore’s most prized school catchments - and it just shrank

Families pay a median price of $3.3 million to live in Killara. Now, many of them won’t get their kids into Killara High.

  • Nick Newling
Gordon train station

North shore council reaches secret deal over housing plan

Planning Minister Paul Scully accused the council of wasting ratepayers’ money to stop development in the middle of a housing crisis.

  • Megan Gorrey
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Gordon train station and Grosvenor Place, which stands 45 storeys tall.

The plan to squeeze 45-storey apartment buildings into Ku-ring-gai

Ku-ring-gai councillors resisted the government’s plans for high-density apartments. Now their staff have come up with their own plans.

  • Anthony Segaert, Megan Gorrey and Daniel Lo Surdo
The seven-storey apartment block in Lindfield was the first application lodged under the state government’s reforms.

Lindfield proposal leads the race under state’s new housing reforms

“We had a joke in the office that wouldn’t it be amazing if the first [one] was in Ku-ring-gai LGA, and it was,” Planning Department deputy secretary Monica Gibson told a developers’ conference last week.

  • Michael Koziol and Anthony Segaert
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Ku-ring-gai Council: What your candidates said

Ku-ring-gai voters will choose 10 councillors across two wards.

Opposition to development in Ku-ring-gai is vociferous.

‘Bad for the whole of NSW’: Inside the north shore’s NIMBY crusade

Ku-ring-gai Council is taking the state government to court to block its planning reforms. But even in NIMBY central, attitudes about housing policy are starting to shift.

  • Michael Koziol
interior photos of Lindfield Learning Village. Supplied

Parents left in the dark after principal and deputies leave north shore school

Families say they are “bewildered” by the sudden change in the public school’s leadership. The NSW Education Department says there is an internal investigation under way.

  • Lucy Carroll
Ku-Ring-Gai Mayor Sam Ngai on Thursday.

This mayor says he’s ‘more YIMBY than NIMBY’, but his council will sue the state over housing

Ku-ring-gai mayor Sam Ngai has come under fire from the planning minister for making a legal challenge to the state’s new laws.

  • Anthony Segaert

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