Planning
Sydney Fish Market executives reel in larger salaries as finances sink
The Sydney Fish Market sees so little value in relocating to its new billion-dollar Blackwattle Bay digs that it has written off millions in costs related to the development.
- Harriet Alexander
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Why can’t we build enough houses?
The housing crisis has become a perennial issue in Australia and is top of the list for many voters.
- Gemma Grant
Inside the yard where Sydney’s bendy buses are being put back together again
Moving the doors on 83 buses found to have cracks is critical to easing chronic delays for commuters on the northern beaches and north shore.
- Matt O'Sullivan
‘Like putting a highway across a park’: The problem with the fish market ferry plan
Sydney’s rowers and kayakers are worried about being run over by ferries.
- Megan Gorrey
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- Shoddy Sydney
Out the back of a Haymarket suit shop, you can get your tradie qualification without sitting a test
Tradies can obtain qualifications without formal testing from a vast number of private organisations.
- Max Maddison and Harriet Alexander
Search for buildings with defect notices across Sydney
Building defects cost homeowners north of $700m a year. These are the rectification orders issued in the past four years.
State clears the way for farmland on Brisbane fringe to be developed
The Crisafulli government has lifted a ban on the development of farmland in one of several future growth corridors, as it finalises plans for a new motorway.
- Sean Parnell
Sydney has a new playground. But it’s not for little kids
A once-dead space has been transformed with the goal of getting teens off their phones.
- Ellie Busby
The building commissioner doesn’t think Sydney has a defects crisis. Tell that to Amanda
What does NSW need to do to solve its defects crisis? It starts by acknowledging there’s a problem – then taking these seven steps.
- Max Maddison and Anthony Segaert
Much-loved music venue ordered to improve its soundproofing – for flats that don’t exist
Justin Stanford’s Night Cat in Fitzroy may have to close after being ordered to make costly upgrades because of a residential building that doesn’t yet have planning approval.
- Alexander Darling and Tom Cowie
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