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Unknown vandals have drilled multiple holes into a hundred year old fig tree, poisoning it.

Fight to save Hunters Hill trees after ‘calculated act of vandalism’

Injected with poison, razed and drilled with multiple holes. Now the latest in an alleged string of “calculated” attacks against Sydney’s trees has left residents fuming.

  • Cindy Yin

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John Curtis took his neighbour to court over palm trees, shown inset, that he alleged blocked the view from his Darling Point home.

The palm trees, the harbour views and the multimillion-dollar mansion

A former Allianz Australia chairman claimed his neighbour’s trees obstructed views from his Darling Point trophy home.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Property development group Goldmate had about half its land in Luddenham near Badgerys Creek compulsorily acquired by Transport for NSW.

The $33m Sydney block and the supersized price tag

A prime parcel of land near Sydney’s planned second airport is at the centre of a landmark court fight.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
Snip, snip: the Land and Environment Court ruled on the neighbourly dispute on Friday.

War of the lilly pillies: Mosman neighbours don’t hedge bets in tree row

Two north shore families called in silks to argue the finer points of law concerning an offending hedge - and whether the law should be applied in the present or past tense.

  • Carrie Fellner
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
A section of harbourside bush has been illegally cleared of about 100 trees and 200 other plants at the end of Lucretia Ave, Longueville .

‘Throw the book at them’: Trees destroyed in Sydney harbour vandalism attack

Lane Cove Mayor Scott Bennison said the council believes it knows who was responsible for the illegal destruction of 300 trees and plants.

  • Jessica McSweeney and Megan Gorrey
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Jean Nassif’s Toplace empire has been placed into administration.

Jean Nassif’s property development empire Toplace goes into administration

The decision will plunge thousands of apartment owners into uncertainty as they fight to repair their troubled buildings.

  • Carrie Fellner
Brian Locke

The buried gold, the crumbling fraud case and the billionaires’ tsunami

Sydney’s richest businessmen were on the hunt for a legendary cache of gold when things turned ugly.

  • Carrie Fellner
Royal Sydney Golf Club has planned a $17.5 million redevelopment which will now begin in 2024.

Opponents lament tree ‘massacre’ after Sydney’s ritziest golf club reno approved

Woollahra Council said it had garnered an additional 300 trees for the site in amended plans rubber-stamped in court on Thursday.

  • Michael Koziol
Charlotte Pass in the NSW Snowy Mountains.

Ski resort paid out $233k over ‘unacceptable’ sewage pollution

Charlotte Pass resort has been fined for allowing millions of litres of improperly treated sewage effluent to flow into nearby waterways in Kosciuszko National Park.

  • Sarah Keoghan

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