Lindfield
The plan to squeeze 45-storey apartment buildings into Ku-ring-gai
Ku-ring-gai councillors resisted the government’s plans for high-density apartments. Now their staff have come up with their own plans.
- by Anthony Segaert, Megan Gorrey and Daniel Lo Surdo
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Lindfield proposal leads the race under state’s new housing reforms
“We had a joke in the office that wouldn’t it be amazing if the first [one] was in Ku-ring-gai LGA, and it was,” Planning Department deputy secretary Monica Gibson told a developers’ conference last week.
- by Michael Koziol and Anthony Segaert
Ku-ring-gai Council: What your candidates said
Ku-ring-gai voters will choose 10 councillors across two wards.
‘Bad for the whole of NSW’: Inside the north shore’s NIMBY crusade
Ku-ring-gai Council is taking the state government to court to block its planning reforms. But even in NIMBY central, attitudes about housing policy are starting to shift.
- by Michael Koziol
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Education
Parents left in the dark after principal and deputies leave north shore school
Families say they are “bewildered” by the sudden change in the public school’s leadership. The NSW Education Department says there is an internal investigation under way.
- by Lucy Carroll
This mayor says he’s ‘more YIMBY than NIMBY’, but his council will sue the state over housing
Ku-ring-gai mayor Sam Ngai has come under fire from the planning minister for making a legal challenge to the state’s new laws.
- by Anthony Segaert
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Planning
Sydney won’t get 170,000 new homes at stations. Here’s why
We’ve done the maths and, for 170,000 homes to be delivered, all 37 zones would require the density of Elizabeth Bay.
- by Michael Koziol
Why was the eastern suburbs spared in the housing blitz?
Sydney mayors say plans for thousands of new homes around Metro stations are now uncertain after the Minns government accidentally released its signature plans to ramp up density at major transport hubs.
- by Michael McGowan, Max Maddison and Michael Koziol
Hot Sydney suburbs where home buyers can get in for less - with one compromise
Home buyers willing to compromise on space can buy into prime pockets of Sydney for a fraction of the cost, but will face a hurdle when it’s time to upsize.
- by Kate Burke
Young family drops $4,445,000 on Strathfield house at auction, plans a renovation
Bidders who had spent months searching for a home in the suburb managed to purchase in its Golden Mile, and will do a renovation that could cost another half a million dollars.
- by Kate Burke
Local kids raise $1000 for RFS in face of bushfire disaster
Children from North Shore community Lindfield have raised $1000 for NSW RFS in stalls they set up on Sunday morning, which sold a variety of hand-made goods.
- by Catriona Stirrat
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