Lindfield
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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- Pauline Morrissey and Lou Sweeney
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
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
Ku-ring-gai Council: What your candidates said
Ku-ring-gai voters will choose 10 councillors across two wards.
‘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
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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
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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- Planning
Sydney won’t get 170,000 new homes at stations. Here’s why
We’ve done the maths and, for 170,000 homes to be delivered, all 37 zones would require the density of Elizabeth Bay.
- Michael Koziol
Why was the eastern suburbs spared in the housing blitz?
Sydney mayors say plans for thousands of new homes around Metro stations are now uncertain after the Minns government accidentally released its signature plans to ramp up density at major transport hubs.
- Michael McGowan, Max Maddison and Michael Koziol
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