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Small property developer Jim Clarke-Sullivan on the property in Rosanna.

Council rejection means off-the-shelf apartment proposal won’t get off the ground

The state approved a 17-dwelling plan in Melbourne’s north-east. But a council overruled in a move described as a masterclass in adding to the housing crisis.

  • Rachael Dexter

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Premier Jacinta Allan and Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny last year.

Automatic green light for townhouses, small apartments to speed up builds

Neighbours will lose appeal rights for three-storey projects if the plans meet a set of strict standards aimed at streamlining low-rise residential development.

  • Rachel Eddie
Annandale development.

The millionaire, the dilapidated Sydney buildings and the 50 council complaints

A row of properties that developer Babak Moini bought in 2018 is the subject of allegations the site has become a dumping ground and an illegal boarding house.

  • Max Maddison
Rozelle Parklands.

Millions have been spent on these football fields but no one is allowed to play on them

A year after Rozelle Parklands opened, Inner West Council has accused Transport for NSW of holding up a planned handover of the site.

  • Michael McGowan
An aerial view of Frankston, where apartments up to 16-storeys tall have been approved.

Housing targets scaled back across Melbourne

The state government also says it is cutting back plans for medium-density development because of response from the community.

  • Rachael Dexter
Gif of former Weet-Bix factory in Warburton.

Weet-bricks: Plans to turn old breakfast cereal factory into tourism venture

The owner of a heritage-listed Weet-Bix factory in Warburton will make one final attempt to transform the building into a multimillion-dollar tourism development overlooking the Yarra.

  • Benjamin Preiss
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The government wants to build more terraces and small apartment blocks throughout greater Sydney and surrounds.

These changes promised to deliver 100,000 homes in NSW. Fourteen months later, they’re still not here

Developers and councils are intensifying pressure on the Minns government to finalise the second stage of its divisive medium-density housing reforms.

  • Megan Gorrey
Brisbane remains a popular city for people to go to university, enter the workforce and raise families.

Brisbane set for population shift not seen in Queensland since the 1970s

The federal government expects more people to be living in Greater Brisbane than the rest of Queensland within months.

  • Sean Parnell
A documentary directed and produced by award-winning local filmmaker Bruce Walters about a campaign to save two trees in Ruskin Rowe, Avalon.

The smashed Mercedes and a community fight over two trees

Residents have put “a stake in the ground” to save two towering 60-year-old gums in a majestic tree-lined street on Sydney’s northern beaches.

  • Michaela Whitbourn
One of the biggest developments is proposed for fast-growing Rhodes in Sydney’s inner west.

More than 6000 homes have been fast-tracked in Sydney. Here is where they are

A new housing authority has recommended major housing developments from Parramatta to Miranda are accelerated to bypass local councils.

  • Megan Gorrey

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