The NSW state government has announced that Alexandria Park School will consolidate both the junior and senior schools into a 2,200-student multi-storey school on the site of the junior school campus, next to Alexandria Park.
Cities all around the world are moving away from freeways and tollways. They have discovered that roads do not work. Building more roads does not reduce congestion.
The building construction was privately certified. Under state legislation, private certifiers are responsible for ensuring that building works comply with the approved construction certificate....
Don’t believe it, was the advice from these two transport specialists. Contrary to intuition, they explained, research conclusively shows that additional roads never reduce...
Lord Mayor Clover Moore told Alexandria and Erskineville residents that she might only approve further development of the Ashmore Precinct if there was a firm commitment by the state government to provide more local infrastructure.
ALEXANDRIA: Residents were shocked to learn that a Development Application had been lodged to demolish the iconic Alexandria Hotel and replace it with a block of 28 apartments. Only residents within a 50-metre radius were directly informed by Council. Fortunately, residents were able to use social media to spread the word more widely. Among the first to do so was Alex Robinson, who set up the Facebook group “Save the Alex pub”.
The South Sydney Herald is distributed across four state seats: Heffron, Sydney, Newtown and Balmain. Since the state election on March 28, only Heffron is held by a major party.
Balmain is shaping up to be a hotly contested seat between sitting member Jamie Parker (Greens), former member and Minister Verity Firth (Labor), and 24-year-old Lyndon Gannon (Liberal), an office manager for a pro-Liberal lobbying consultancy.
Alex Greenwich is opposed to the sale of inner-city social housing and supports The Rocks-Millers Point-Dawes Point community. “We’ve had major demographic changes with...
I’m disappointed. This so-called right of reply doesn’t reply to any of the issues I raised. It doesn’t explain how WestConnex is going to be paid for. It doesn’t explain how local roads will accommodate all those extra cars – or if it is possible at all. Instead, Mr Cliche has confirmed that “detailed traffic modelling” is not yet complete. It begs the question of why this has not yet happened.
More than 1,100 people have already indicated they will attend the “Party Against the WestConnex Motorway”, a Reclaim the Streets event to be held on December 13 at Simpson Park, St Peters.
The Abbott government has announced that it intends to wind back or abolish the RET (Renewable Energy Target), which sets a target for the percentage of power required to be generated from renewable sources.
On the morning of September 6, several hundred concerned citizens withstood wind, cold and rain to protest the latest “get Clover” legislation from the Shooters and Fishers, legislation that would see many business owners given two or more votes, while other business owners would lose the one vote they currently have.
Inner-city public schools face a double hit on capacity as the total population of the inner city and the percentage of the population with children increase. After falling for decades, the number of school-age children in the inner city is climbing.
They say you never forget how to ride. Not true. Having now ridden a bike for the first time in maybe 20 years, it takes a few minutes to become comfortable on a bike again. It’s not something I would have tried in Sydney but Melbourne is far more cyclist-friendly – more bike-paths, wider streets, fewer cars – and a bike hire scheme called Melbourne Bike Share.
Last year, the O’Farrell government announced it will change NSW’s planning laws and has floated a Green Paper (an ideas paper) setting out the direction of the new legislation and asking for comments. Prior to the Green Paper, there was a bipartisan enquiry into planning that made 374 recommendations, including the need for a focus on Environmentally Sustainable Development.
