20140528
Population projections for Sydney deliver urban planning wake-up call
Sydney will need more than 600,000 extra homes for an additional 1.6 million people in the next two decades, according to state government figures. But urban planners say the projections also reveal the ''real tension'' in matching population growth to the right housing stock as Sydney also contends with the growing challenges of an ageing population. Figures published on Thursday by the Department of Planning and Environment predict an additional 2 million people are expected to call NSW home by 2031, when the state's population will reach 9.2 million.
20140709
Hornsby Rural Area Rezoning (page 5)
WHY NOW
By Tony Jones, Committee of Concerned Residents
Pru Goward – Minister for Planning – NSW Government, recently went public saying that Sydney needed to cater for over 600,000 new residences by the year 2030 and that any area surrounding a railway station would be subject to high rise development, no exceptions.
Councils are under immense pressure to accommodate new homes – quotas are allocated by State Government and the expectation is that they will be met.
20141209
Micro-apartments Can Be Both Livable and Healthy
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Australia ranks as the third-least affordable country in the world. Sydney, for example, with housing prices having risen 14.3 per cent in 2013, is projected to add an additional 1.6 million people over the next 20 years, and will require more than 600,000 new homes.
(And so rather than alleviate property prices by reducing immigration, we're going to build tiny little box appartments. More Agenda 21 garbage, pack-em-in!)