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There are plans to slash the amount of notice neighbours would get under an overhaul of the state’s community consultation rules.

The construction projects your neighbours will no longer have to tell you about

Under new plans, notice for medium-density apartments will be cut to just seven days, while single and two-storey dwellings will require no notification at all.

  • Max Maddison

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FJC Studio says the proposed complex includes a sandstone base to reflect the native bushland.

‘Selfish privilege’ or ‘tragic development’? Inside this Sydney suburb’s fight to stop 150 apartments

On the edge of a historic north shore suburb, residents and heritage experts are fighting to stop additional housing.

  • Megan Gorrey
The NSW government will turn nearly half the golf course into parkland.

Win for golfers as final Moore Park plans are revealed

The NSW government has revealed the final plans for the inner-Sydney course, which will partly be torn up to make way for a 20-hectare public park.

  • Megan Gorrey
Sydney Dance Company members Lucy Angel and Sam Winkler rehearse within the newly created $100m transformation of The Cutaway, at Barangaroo.

First look inside the $100m revamp of Sydney’s harbourside cavern

The indoor cultural venue will soon host events for thousands of visitors, two years after it shuttered for a major overhaul. Not everyone is impressed.

  • Linda Morris and Megan Gorrey
Pyrmont Place, which includes hundreds of units with up to four bedrooms, is near the Wentworth Park light rail stop.

Developers want to build 280 luxury units in Sydney. They’ll take the government’s help

A $900 million inner-city residential precinct is among the projects to benefit from a $1 billion fund to help developers finance stalled housing schemes.

  • Megan Gorrey
The Gordon apartment complex features 106 apartments across two buildings of seven and eight storeys.

This NSW housing authority has been inundated with proposals. Only two have been approved

Planning Minister Paul Scully says he’s not disappointed in the state’s housing approvals, but admits he would prefer to be “much further advanced”.

  • Megan Gorrey
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Former NSW Fire and Rescue commissioner Greg Mullins.

‘Lives at risk’: former emergency service leaders blast government over development ‘lunacy’ in Sydney’s west

“Developers’ profits are trumping community safety” over plans to develop in Hawkesbury-Nepean valley.

  • Max Maddison
A concept image of what the new venue will look like when completed.

‘Extremely disappointed’: Minister defies residents’ noise complaints to dump Barangaroo curfew

The state’s planning minister has scotched concerns from inner-city residents to reinstate 24/7 trading hours at a nearly completed arts and cultural venue.

  • Megan Gorrey and David Barwell
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No bulldozers and towers: Defence sites dominate talk of Sydney’s housing future

The state government says it is investigating potential options for the inner-city Victoria Barracks, but ruled out “huge apartment towers”.

  • Megan Gorrey and David Barwell
The scheme means developers can secure funding earlier and projects slowed by pre-sale hurdles can proceed.

Why a divisive plan to build 227 homes on the old Balmain Leagues site will be fast-tracked

Construction of three residential towers up to 16 storeys will begin within months on the languishing Victoria Road site.

  • Megan Gorrey