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At a time when housing supply is in crisis, when costs are escalating, and where all areas of Sydney need to increase housing approvals to accommodate a rapidly growing population, it is concerning that Woollahra Council continues to maintain its strongly NIMBYist position against residential development. The perfunctory response from Council officers to the serious issues raised by the Urban Taskforce was disappointing.
In this circumstance, the opportunity to further develop our response generated by the hapless error in the exhibition process, is welcome.
While the State Government is pursuing initiatives to increase housing stock – planning reforms, pattern books, and low and medium-rise housing policies, to name a few – Council seems determined to frustrate these efforts, notwithstanding their bi-partisan support in the NSW Parliament.
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