Planning & development

The Land and Environment Court has ruled in favour of Canterbury Bankstown Council and of the residents of Ashbury after dismissing an appeal by a developer seeking to develop land adjacent to Peace Park into seven residential lots.

As its name would suggest, Peace Park in Ashbury is a tranquil oasis in the tangle of suburbs that make up Sydney's inner west—a spot where families picnic, children play, birdwatchers observe the beautiful species that thrive along the Cooks River and locals gather for regular games of bocce.

The excellent team at the Haberfield Association have been busily working on a new flyer to welcome new residents to Haberfield.

Over the past few weeks of heavy rains, businesses and residents along Carrington Road, Marrickville, were again under water.

I congratulate Inner West Council and Haberfield community on the newly refurbished Haberfield Library and Community Centre.

The strongest way to reaffirm community confidence and protect the master-planning process for the Canterbury Racecourse site is to support the bill and extend the moratorium.

In many cases, the boarding house developments currently before our councils are not actually boarding houses but rather shoebox apartments no bigger than jail cells, without rent controls or other oversight to ensure they are housing the people who need the most support.

As development intensifies across Sydney, Canterbury Racecourse has become something rare and exceptional: thirty‑five hectares of precious open green space.

Notes the development application to rezone the carpark at Canterbury Racecourse on the corner of King Street and Princess Street as surplus land.

A question to the Government about their commitment to dedicate two lanes of rapid public transport on Parramatta Road.