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A metro train runs through the new section of track between Campsie and Sydenham for the first time.

First metro train rolls along the final stage of Sydney’s $21.6b line

The first metro journey marks the start of more than 6500 hours of testing which will determine when the line opens to passengers next year. 

  • Matt O'Sullivan

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New plans have been submitted for 47 Edward Street in Brisbane.

Heritage-listed Edward Street building to become four-level city pad

The Victorian warehouse, which has survived floods, a fire and changes to its use, is set to become a luxury apartment.

  • Sean Parnell
The green and golden bell frog and Garfield Road East in Riverstone

The Sydney council, the vulnerable frog and the $7m lawsuit that backfired

A company that rejected the first offer of $2.49 million for a forced acquisition of land will receive much less.

  • Michael Ruffles
An expert panel appointed by the Queensland government wanted small lots to host more than one home.

Think small: What expert housing panel wanted to tell the government

Only weeks before the Queensland election, government-appointed experts met to express their frustrations and put their unheeded advice in writing.

  • Sean Parnell
Ku-ring-gai council residents Michael Clayden, Samantha Bing, Peter Tulip, Jo Karaolis, Todd Cefai and Matthew Hayes on Clanville Rd Roseville where new developments are set to go up.

The great divide over this north shore council’s housing plan

There was only one item on the agenda at Ku-ring-gai Council’s extraordinary meeting on Monday, yet it was hours before councillors could debate it.

  • Frances Howe
CLT with TLC.

New Sydney homes that go up ‘like a Lego kit’

A leading architect whose clients include 20 of Australia’s richest people is experimenting with fast, sustainable materials on a row of four terraces in Bondi Junction.

  • Julie Power
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Neighbours, including Rachmat Djajadikarta, second from right, are campaigning to adjust the proposed development.

The surprising reason this neighbourhood opposes a new development

Inner west residents are pushing back against the state’s largest ever build-to-rent development – because they want more affordable housing on the site.

  • Anthony Segaert
The state government says its agencies must be held to account to ensure there are no delays to housing approvals.

Revealed: The state agencies holding up new housing in NSW

Councils are publicly named and shamed over the time they take to approve housing developments. Now it is the government’s turn. 

  • Alexandra Smith
Commuters will be forced to catch replacement buses between Bankstown station and Lidcombe.

Second passenger train line faces two-month closure

Commuters also face disruptions from full or partial closures of the busy M1 metro line over several weekends, as well as services stopping earlier some nights.

  • Matt O'Sullivan
Victorian planning reforms will allow larger apartments and townhouses across Melbourne.

The three-storey apartment blocks coming soon to your neighbourhood

Townhouses and apartments can now be built, with fast-tracked approval, closer to footpaths and neighbours under sweeping changes.

  • Sophie Aubrey

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/urban-development-63l