9 h. ago Landmark planning changes show the Minns government truly understands Sydney’s housing crisis

Well-designed, well-located and affordable housing is vital to a modern, progressive city. These changes will help.

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9 h. ago These planning law changes won’t please everyone. That’s the point

The former state government tried and failed to deliver major changes to NSW’s unwieldy planning system. Coalition MPs cannot now afford to stand in the way.

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14 h. ago ‘Single front door’: The biggest overhaul of NSW planning laws in 50 years revealed

Labor said the biggest rewrite of the legislation in nearly five decades was designed to make the planning system quicker and simpler to navigate.

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30 h. ago ‘Your positions will no longer be required’: Plans to shut down uni degrees revealed

Staff were called to a meeting on Tuesday and told about the plans, to be officially unveiled tomorrow morning, which would “disestablish” the UTS school of education.

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3 d. ago ‘Time to stop talking and start building’: The plan for 8000 new homes along Parramatta Road

Thousands of new homes could be delivered along one of the city’s most important corridors, after the state government announced a new partnership with a Sydney council.

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1 week ago A new lawn, events for 1500: The $27m plan to reinvent a Sydney landmark

The state government wants to hold more events at the sandstone building. Nearby residents say it will disturb their peace and create “traffic chaos”.

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2 w. ago ‘Unexpected meeting invitations’: The Sydney university forced to suspend plans to axe 150 jobs

It is the latest chapter in the University of Technology’s controversial plan to make up to 400 staff redundant, as it seeks to make savings after recording a deficit of $78 million last year.

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2 w. ago Let there be rock: How this Sydney council plans to honour its AC/DC legacy

As Liverpool is to the Beatles, so too will Burwood be to Australia’s greatest rock export under plans designed to put Melbourne’s AC/DC Lane in the shade.

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3 w. ago Woollahra NIMBYs will wail, but this station plan ticks every box for good planning

Woollahra station could become a pearl in a string of eastern suburbs transport oriented development stops, but only if sanity prevails and NIMBYs are stared down.

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3 w. ago The divisive plan to bulldoze 80 units to ‘make way for millionaires’

Developers want to raze a landmark building and replace it with high-end apartments. The local MP reckons they’re “having a laugh” at the housing crisis.

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3 w. ago How new planning rules could stop emergency services blocking housing

A contentious plan to build hundreds of homes near Lizard Rock in Belrose could be the beneficiary of planning reforms being mulled by the state government.

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