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The former Hoffman Brickworks site.

No one will fix this heritage chimney. It’s costing owners thousands of dollars

The developer blames red tape, but for residents footing the bill, the real issue is a system with no consequences.

  • Rachael Dexter

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The vast majority of the land is zoned for industrial use.

No mini-city, but still more apartments: What’s next for Rosehill?

Rosehill is made up mostly of industrial land. Despite the failure to sell off the racetrack, there’s movement to make the rest of it new homes.

  • Anthony Segaert
Vaucluse MP Kellie Sloane has told a housing forum in Double Bay that she supports “sensible development”.

‘No decent supermarket’: The Liberal MP who wants Sydney’s east spared from more housing

Vaucluse MP Kellie Sloane says the Labor government’s housing plans are “quite confronting” for Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

  • Alexandra Smith and Jessica McSweeney
Kings Cross activist and newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen at her Potts Point office in 1974.

How Juanita Nielsen sparked reforms that transformed city landscapes

The death of the Australian anti-development activist was the catalyst for a huge range of planning and policy changes that are now under the spotlight.

  • Sue Williams
Future South Bank Master Plan - AILA Awards - The plan sets out the vision, rationale and strategies to foster a precinct that is greener, livelier and more inclusive. The vision will be achieved by providing more green and public spaces, upgraded assets, diverse experiences, improved travel connections, increased river frontage and more people-friendly streets.

Plans to shake up South Bank, removing the Piazza, win acclaim

Several Brisbane projects received accolades in the AILA Queensland Awards – including some that only exist in the gleam of an architect’s eye.

  • Nick Dent
An artist’s impression of the proposal.

Council dealt blow in fight against plans to turn sports field into homes

Ryde council has been fighting tooth and nail to stop an RSL club from turning a sports field into seniors housing. It’s just lost a major challenge.

  • Jessica McSweeney
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Graya Developments’ plans for a mixed use development at 63-71 Racecourse Road.

One of Brisbane’s trendiest streets in line for landmark development

A developer plans to build 37 units as part of a mixed-use project on a famous northside strip.

  • Cameron Atfield
The Western Sydney International Airport terminal building

Inside Western Sydney Airport’s surprisingly small terminal

Resembling one of Sydney’s new metro stations, the newly finished terminal is a gleaming, ultra-modern monument to the many shades of brown.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
The Young Henrys brewery in Newtown would be demolished and replaced with a six-storey apartment building under a new development application.

Popular inner west brewery faces demolition for new apartments

The brewery where the PM and his fiancee had their first date will be torn down if plans for a six-storey apartment building are approved.

  • Jessica McSweeney
Dirk Skelton inside his accommodation, talks with Trish Bowie.

These pods were built to house flood victims. They’re shutting down

Four temporary pod villages set up to accommodate victims of the 2022 Northern Rivers floods will shut down next month. One mayor wants them to stay.

  • Jessica McSweeney

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