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The 120 Collins Street Ground Plane refurbishment project.

This tiny CBD garden provides an oasis for the office-weary

The 310m² courtyard aims to “offer refuge” to those in the busy city centre.

  • Gemma Grant

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Western Harbour Tunnel.

Beneath Sydney, a mini-city is being dug for machines bigger than an aircraft fuselage

Giant caverns – each large enough to house the body of an A380 – will house the boring machines that will carve the road tunnel between Waverton and Birchgrove.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
An artist’s render of the 17-storey affordable housing tower proposed for Para Rd, Greensborough.

The suburban towers being green-lit without community approval

The Allan government has frequently used its strengthened powers to bypass local councils and green-light developments, including one set to change the skyline of Greensborough.

  • Daniella White
Curt Thompson, who has long fought plans build homes on the former Talbot quarry, stands at the southern boundary of the site.

Plan to move 2500 residents onto former dump and quarry full of unstable ‘slime’

Next to a famed golf course, this parcel of land is filled with pits of waste piles and enormous “slimes” that plunge up to 20 metres beneath the surface.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Western Sydney Airport has raised concerns of bird strikes on aircraft

This $50m park poses an unlikely threat to Sydney’s new airport

The plans have sparked fears of strikes on low-flying aircraft due to an increase in birds and bats that may be drawn to the green space.

  • David Barwell
Bipartisan reforms of the Environmental & Protection Act are taking shape.

Momentum builds to overhaul major housing handbrake

Labor and the Liberals are working together to reform controversial planning laws, but suspicions of an ambush remain.

  • Max Maddison
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Rosehill Gardens Racecourse, with Parramatta in the background, has been earmarked to be transformed into a “mini-city”.

Rosehill saga another depressing chapter in Sydney’s sorry housing story

The debate to sell a racecourse at Rosehill for housing development has been unedifying. It should have been a no-brainer.

  • The Herald's View
An artist’s impression of the proposed development at Lords Road.

The Sydney football club fighting plans for 200 apartments

APIA Leichhardt FC fears it will be forced into curfews or noise restrictions if a planning proposal to build eight-storey unit buildings goes ahead.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Long-time Kensington resident Simon Harvey stands near some of the Macaulay Road build-to-rent projects.

Build-to-rent ‘loophole’ robs communities of millions for new parks

Councils say the controversial loophole allows build-to-rent developers to escape a green space levy.

  • Sophie Aubrey
Triffid/Little Italy composite index pic

Brisbane’s Triffid forces redesign of $1.5 billion tower project

The Triffid took the developers and Brisbane City Council to court over the approved Newstead project, which is set to loom over the live music venue.

  • Cameron Atfield

Original URL: https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/topic/urban-planning-63m