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The plans for Waterloo South include 3000 dwellings and a 2.2 hectare public park next to the future metro station.

The metro will transform this Sydney suburb but not everyone’s on board

Waterloo will be the suburb the metro rail line helped revamp, if the state government can pull off its plan to redevelop the surrounding public housing estate.

  • Megan Gorrey

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Residents fear Erskineville will turn into Green Square if developers are granted further increases to permitted building heights.

‘We will end up like Green Square’: Erko goes berserko over one extra storey

Dozens of objections to an additional level and baroque roof at a massive redevelopment in Erskineville have revealed fears the suburb will turn into Zetland or Waterloo.

  • Michael Koziol
The plans for Waterloo South include 3000 dwellings and a 2.2 hectare public park next to the future metro station.

Plans to build 3000 new homes in Sydney’s inner south one step closer

The state government wants to build thousands of apartments near a new metro station. One local councillor has lashed it as an “epic fail” to deliver more public housing.

  • Megan Gorrey
Mark Wahlberg asks people to “save Moore Park Golf Club”

Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg ‘pleading’ with Sydneysiders to save Moore Park Golf Club

The golf club in Sydney’s east has an unlikely new ally in the Hollywood star, who on Saturday filmed a video urging people to save it.

  • Sally Rawsthorne
The plans include 3000 dwellings and a 2.2 hectare public park next to the Waterloo metro station.

Waterloo estate plan rejigged to accommodate more social housing

The process to move hundreds of existing tenants whose homes will be bulldozed is expected to begin in mid-2024.

  • Megan Gorrey
Green Square, with Crown Group’s Infinity building in the bottom left corner.

It’s the suburb Sydneysiders love to hate – but is it really that bad?

Green Square is nearly two thirds complete and will house about 70,000 people in a decade. Lord Mayor Clover Moore says it should be embraced as the city’s future.

  • Michael Koziol and Megan Gorrey
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Anne Lacaton and Jean Philippe Vassal, Pritzker Prize Laureates.

The French solution for Sydney’s apartment blocks

The winners of the world’s most prestigious architectural prize know how to turn dark and dingy units into light-filled spaces.

  • Julie Power
Anna North in her Waterloo unit.

‘The opposite of a solution’: Eight years to decide if Anna’s home will be bulldozed

The state government is forging ahead with plans to redevelop the Waterloo housing estate, which is home to more than 2000 vulnerable residents.

  • Megan Gorrey
One of the publicly owned properties was a terrace on Mitchell Street that was once home to prominent women’s workplace rights campaigner Sadie King OAM.

Inner Sydney homes mysteriously taken off the market

The empty terrace houses had been listed for sale by auction, some with a price guide of $1 million.

  • Megan Gorrey and Andrew Taylor
The mostly vacant 1.1 hectare block has been the subject of multiple plans for residential development since 2013.

Hundreds of apartments to transform empty block opposite Redfern Oval

The state government is proposing a mix of private and social housing units, as community groups protest the sell-off of public land.

  • Megan Gorrey

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