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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

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An anti-Woolworths development demonstrator confronts a YIMBY heckler at a community rally in Elsternwick.

Elsternwick erupts: NIMBYs v YIMBYs as VCAT bypass fuels local fury

Woolworths has sought to overturn a VCAT judgment and applied to Victoria’s planning minister to approve a 148-apartment housing proposal in Elsternwick.

  • Adam Carey
Ballan resident John Kowarsky.

This satellite town could double in size under plans for major development

Plans to grow this town west of Melbourne dramatically has sparked concerns from residents and environmentalists but support from others.

  • Benjamin Preiss
Heworth Holdings Group has increased the height of the proposed development from 12 storeys to 16 storeys.

This inner west apartment plan has split opinion. The council predicts there’ll be more

One opponent argued that the 16-storey block proposed for the languishing Balmain Leagues Club site would be “as workable in Rozelle as a snowflake is in hell”.

  • Megan Gorrey
Training at Rosehill

New D-Day for Rosehill after intervention on eve of crucial vote

Racing NSW announced late on Friday that it had instructed the ATC to delay the vote on turning the racecourse into a “mini-city” of 25,000 homes until May 12.

  • Michael McGowan, Chris Barrett and Alexandra Smith
Many home buyers do not see houses and apartments as interchangeable.

Where picking the wrong type of property could cost thousands

In some neighbourhoods, properties have been selling at a loss, but it depends on their type.

  • Elizabeth Redman
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All but four of the buyers at the original auction in 2003 rescinded their offers.

Sydney’s most expensive swamp hits the market

The parcel of empty land will finally be sold off for homes, decades after the army moved out. The council says the move will do little to help the housing crisis.

  • Megan Gorrey
Winchelsea is booming.

How does a country town grow fivefold without losing its charm? The locals have an idea

It used to be a stopping place on the way to somewhere else, but this riverside town in Victoria’s south-west is growing so fast it’s threatening to swallow up surrounding farmland.

  • Benjamin Preiss
A digital render of the planned building at 16 Bright Place, Birtinya.

‘He thinks there’s too many’: Bleijie halts affordable housing project

A war of words has erupted between Labor and the LNP after Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie rescinded approval for an affordable housing project in his electorate.

  • William Davis
Blackburne’s $200 million Ocean Village development earmarked for City Beach.

Planning body backs Blackburne’s $200m City Beach apartment plan amid community furore

More than 220 people converged on the Boulevard Centre in Floreat on Thursday, where the WA Planning Commission held its meeting.

  • Jesinta Burton

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