GLEBE: Minister for Social Housing, Brad Hazzard, has announced the Cowper Street site of the Glebe Affordable Housing Project site will be divided into both private and social dwellings, with construction set to begin early 2016.
Inner-city residents are divided on the issue of the City of Sydney’s Neighbourhood Parking Policy redraft after a Planning and Committee Meeting was held on May 6. The meeting, held at Town Hall, allowed residents to express concerns or support for the proposed redraft of the policy.
Three candidates representing disability support organisation FRANS (Croydon) will be travelling to Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in the 16th World Congress for Inclusion International.
EVELEIGH: Images of the proposed Central to Eveleigh urban renewal have been broadcast on Channel Nine, concerning residents and protection groups in the area.
Three ALP candidates have been announced to contest preselection for the newly rezoned state seat of Newtown. Penny Sharpe (MLC), Sean Macken and Natalie Gould will be campaigning for the position of the ALP representative when voting begins on March 10, 2014.
Two thousand people attended the premiere of London-based documentary filmmaker John Pilger’s latest project, Utopia, at the Block in Redfern on January 17.
DARLINGTON: Residents have expressed their opposition to the proposed University of Sydney student accommodation to be built on Abercrombie Street. The accommodation, part of the University’s Abercrombie Precinct Development, will provide studio apartment rooms for 200 students.