Last week in NSW Parliament former NSW Premier Kristina Keneally attempted to shut down a speech by Greens MP for Balmain Jamie Parker which outlined further evidence of a billion dollar gift to Lend Lease by the former NSW Labor government. The extraordinary effort to gag Mr Parker’s speech was overruled by the Acting Speaker.
Reducing Development Application times is a top priority of Leichhardt Council and in recent years significant gains have been made. In the past six financial years Leichhardt Council has cut Development Application (DA) processing times by 70 days, from 185 days to 115. And in an even greater improvement, in the period from July to [...]
Read more →The 2010-11 Local Government Performance Monitoring report released today shows that government intervention in the state planning laws, particularly removing powers from local councils, has done little or nothing to speed up development assessment times. The largest deterioration in assessment times has come from the State government’s increased time to determined referrals to it from [...]
Read more →NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has granted large developers in Sydney a free gift, with a fast-tracked rezoning process without any strategic planning. This will deliver developer profits at the cost of sensible strategic planning in Sydney’s suburbs. NSW Greens Planning Spokesperson David Shoebridge said: “This is Barry O’Farrell’s recipe for developer profits at the cost [...]
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NSW Roads and Maritime Services (formerly the RTA) is planning to permanently remove all of the remaining 44 parking spaces on Victoria Road Rozelle from the Iron Cove Bridge to the The Crescent. This proposal was intended to be implemented over the Christmas / New Year Holiday period with local residential streets expected to absorb [...]
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A safer, more accessible, efficient and environmentally friendly future for local transport is one step closer with Council’s new Draft Integrated Transport Plan approved for exhibition. The Plan aims to increase transport options in the LGA and make it. easy for us to make our travel sustainable. Some of the great initiatives we are looking [...]
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The first port Jackson Greens meeting for the year will be held on Monday, February 13 in the meeting rooms at Leichhardt Town Hall. The meeting commences at 7pm and will finish no later than 9pm. All members are welcome to attend. The Guest speaker for this meeting will be Professor Frank Stilwell who will [...]
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Balmain Greens MP Jamie Parker continues to lead the campaign to stop the overdevelopment of what was previously the Harold Park paceway. Jamie Parker will chair a public meeting next week ahead of the City of Sydney’s Central Sydney Planning Committee decision about the Harold Park development. This meeting will be one of the last [...]
Read more →Greens MP Jamie Parker has been working closely with community groups and residents to oppose the privatisation of the previously publicly owned site at Cowper St, Glebe. This public housing estate at Cowper and Elger Streets was demolished earlier this year with over 50% of the new dwellings to be privately owned. Jamie will join [...]
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Greens NSW MP and Energy spokesperson John Kaye’s is convening a workshop on the Greens’ proposed Zero Carbon NSW legislation. The workshop will be held on Sunday 5th February from 1 pm to 4:30 pm at the Greens NSW office at 19 Eve St, Erskineville. All Greens members are welcome to attend and participate in [...]
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NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell’s chief bureaucrat is leading TAFE NSW down the same path that resulted in the collapse of public vocational education and training in Victoria and South Australia, according to Greens MP John Kaye. Greens NSW MP John Kaye said: “The devastation of public vocational education training in other states is being ignored. [...]
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Leichhardt Council’s complete Callan Park Master Plan is now abailable on council’s web site as an eBook. Readers can flick through the pages, download sections or zoom in on specific pages, pictures or information. The link below leads directly to the eBook on council’s web site. Leichhardt Council – Callan Park Master Plan Related Links: [...]
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