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Bruce Lancashire (centre), with Neil Hunichen and Richard Carthew, members of Brimbank Progress Association at Solomon Heights in Sunshine North.

How a century-old ‘zombie subdivision’ became Melbourne’s ‘worst case of urban blight’

A prime site in Melbourne’s west boasts river frontage, city views and proximity to transport links. Yet Solomon Heights has remained undeveloped for a century.

  • Adam Carey

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A plan for a new Woolworths in the heart of a Blue Mountains town has divided the community.

Woolworths has waited five years to build this supermarket. Its plans have divided a community

Locals in a Blue Mountains town have taken sides on a proposed new supermarket – now they are waiting for the verdict.

  • Ellie Busby
Rory Costelloe of Villawood Properties in Tarneit.

Cost of planning new suburbs skyrockets as approvals collapse

New analysis has revealed a dramatic slowdown in the delivery of new suburbs by the state’s planning authority.

  • Daniella White
Deciduous trees provide dappled shade in summer and let the sun through in winter.

We’re in for a long hot summer. It’s time now to grow your own shade

Looking forward to lazy days in the shade? Start planting now to manage the blazing sun and keep your cool.

  • Megan Backhouse
Tim Staindl and Duncan Wallace outside the Corkman pub rebuild in Carlton.

Brick-by-brick rebuild of bulldozed pub becomes a concrete ‘Temu Corkman’

Nearly a decade after its illegal demolition, the Corkman Pub is going back up. But what’s emerging has left those who fought for its rebuild feeling cold.

  • Rachael Dexter and Clay Lucas
A former industrial site in Berrys Bay, Waverton will be turned into parklands and could become a hotspot for firework viewers.

The new ‘local oasis’ you can watch fireworks from – but not until 2028

A park on Sydney’s lower north shore will provide stunning views of the city’s New Year’s Eve fireworks once it opens after a three-year delay.

  • Cindy Yin
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Inside a Neometro townhouse development on Martin Street, Thornbury that has won design awards.

‘Tick-box’ apartment standards stifle housing solutions, award-winning developer warns

Victoria’s apartment standards mean that unconventional plans, like boutique “lofts” similar to warehouse conversions, struggle to meet definitions for approval, Neometro says.

  • Lachlan Abbott
Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly giving evidence at the hearing on Tuesday.

Public housing tower demolition plan is ‘ethnic cleansing’, says mayor

Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly has slammed the state’s plan to demolish Melbourne’s public housing towers as a land grab and threatened street resistance in explosive inquiry testimony.

  • Rachael Dexter
Architect Rowan Opat (left) and home owner Russell Jessop stand in front of the 64-year-old Edgewater Towers in St Kilda.

Let there be light: Lessons from Melbourne’s first apartment high-rise

Apartments in the 1961 tower are larger and more light-filled than modern ones. An architect who has done refurbishments of the building says rules around high-density development must be loosened.

  • Sophie Aubrey
The two fields at Waterfront Drive in Callan Park. One will be converted to an all-weather surface, the other will stay the same.

Callan Park’s crumbling buildings slated for demolition

Nine buildings in Callan Park will be demolished for more green space, but critics warn a concurrent push towards commercialising parkland could spell trouble.

  • Cindy Yin

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