Planning
Revealed: The cost of Sydney’s most bizarre roundabout
The diamond-shaped roundabout, which confused Sydneysiders and vanished just days after opening, was also meant to be a different shape entirely.
- Cindy Yin
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Housing targets falling short in nearly all Victorian council areas
Melbourne is on track to fall well short of its housing aims – a trend that could worsen the state’s housing crisis and prompt the state government to intervene.
- Angus Delaney
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- Development
‘Focus on the north shore and east’: Developers deserting western suburbs
One developer used to build in Liverpool but its newest acquisitions are in Northbridge and Rose Bay.
- Mostafa Rachwani
Plans unveiled for a new high school at Macquarie Park
Construction will begin next year on the eight-storey secondary school for 2000 students – a key step in the area’s transition from industrial to mixed-use.
- Anthony Segaert
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.
- Megan Gorrey
Eastern suburbs to get new railway station, up to 10,000 new homes
Plans to complete an abandoned stop at Woollahra to allow for new housing can be revealed.
- Jessica McSweeney
Inside the piano-shaped Sydney home that was built for romance
He was the quintessential Sydney architect, she managed the International Piano Contest. The house Ken Woolley built for Virginia was unlike any other.
- Julie Power
Andrew has a home close to a golf course. Now both are at risk
Plans for a cemetery at Carnarvon Golf Course in Lidcombe leave residents and players reeling as the city’s burial space crisis clashes with quality of life.
- Mostafa Rachwani
This should be a prime slice of the city. But it’s dark, noisy and unsafe
It could provide a crucial riverside open space for the growing number of CBD apartments, but instead Rebecca Walk is a “dead zone” infested with graffiti.
- Sophie Aubrey
Developer who illegally cleared land to build $3 million mansion forced to replant native bush
After illegally clearing the site, landowners proposed to build a mansion which included a tenpin bowling alley and a man cave.
- Kayla Olaya