Planning in NSW just got a bit better. What have they changed? Read here: www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/plannin...

People living in Sydney: an important chance to support affordable housing being built in Alexandria - send a quick email using @sydney.yimby.au's easy form.

Lovely message in our inbox this morning 😊 One of the foundational NIMBY beliefs is that renters aren't worthy of having a say about their communities.

Final showdown over 30,000 homes in the inner west is happening from 5:30pm on Tuesday. We need you there! RSVP: thq.fyi/se/YnyOcR0

Sign our petition to increase Mosman’s housing target to 5000 homes over 5 years, so they pull their weight on fixing the housing crisis. supporthousingcode.good.do/mosman/target/

Drinks are back this Wednesday 6pm at the Aurora Rooftop Hotel. Come chat urbanism and housing with us. RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...

ABC Compass followed around the @sydney.yimby.au team for a week and turned it into a whole episode and I love it so much, you should watch it feat. @pleasedontatme.bsky.social, @erinrileyau.bsky.social and friends youtu.be/TS5HuijPvho

Inner West Council wants to build 30,000 homes and we need *your* help to make it happen. Have your say in less than 2 minutes at yimby.au/innerwest, and show us what you sent in the replies below.

Did you know there's an abandoned half-built station in the eastern suburbs? @sydney.yimby.au have launched a petition to have Woollarah Station finally built. The population in that area has been going backwards so it's a great opportunity for more TOD. supporthousingcode.good.do/station/wool...

We’ve got two big events on for Activism April, and if you come along to both we’ll give you a free t-shirt! - Activism training - Biggest Inner West Council meeting in years to upzone for thousands of units in Marrickville, Ashfield & Dulwich Hill. RSVP: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...

Have your say on 2500 new homes in Parramatta North: www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/parrama... This area has been stuck in planning limbo for a decade while heritage advocates keep delaying - this time they want to ‘press pause’ until 2029. We need housing now!

Pertinent to Sydney too!

This from the latest E61 report is a key reason why we should be making room in our biggest cities instead of chasing decentralisation which makes everyone poorer. Agglomeration effects are real and can’t be wished away by policy. e61.in/cities-foste...

@sydney.yimby.au @cityofsydney.bsky.social has put up for consultation their entertainment zones policy, which aims to relax rules around the night time economy. Not housing related but NIMBYs will be out in force and need to be countered! Takes 5 mins www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/policy-plann...

Day 2 of our asks for reforming the Planning Act, this time focused on DCPs: - Abolish council DCPs, have one state-wide one - Abolish parking minimums - Abolish upper level setbacks below 10 storeys - Define permitted envelope for each site, no refusing designs in that envelope.

This week we’ll be outlining our wishlist for the Environmental Planning & Assessment Act review. Today, zones and controls: 1. Remove height limits/FSR entirely in CBD, North Sydney, Parramatta and Bondi Junction. 2. Sites can only have one of a height or FSR limit.

This 22 storey development in Crows Nest has now been approved. Thanks to everyone who wrote in favour!

1. Developer files a DA to build some units. 2. City of Sydney says they’re too tall, ‘uncharacteristic’. 3. Developer reduces number of units, reaches agreement with City of Sydney. 4. Land and Environment Court rejects application because there’s not enough units. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

We should interrogate this assumption.

18mths ago people said we were lying about not being able to put solar panels on homes in Inner West heritage conservation areas. Latest Grand Designs shows reno to make an off-grid sustainable home and guess which Council tells them they can’t put solar panels on? m.youtube.com/watch?v=YboU...

65 pages of reports to change the use of a rooftop Barangaroo premises from a licensed restaurant to a bar, for the same opening hours. Who benefits from this stuff, other than the consultants?

We’re going to fall well short of our housing accord target and DPHI is responding by watering down their reforms to the consistency of skim milk. People are sleeping in their cars and they’re handwringing over whether four storey apartments are “discordant” with $3m terraces adjacent to the CBD.

North Sydney Council says apartment building should be shorter and less affordable.

In a pattern we’re seeing across Sydney’s wealthiest suburbs, Bondi Public’s student numbers are going down so much they’re leaving classrooms empty and teachers are losing their jobs. Isn’t planning supposed to match homes to infrastructure? Is Waverley Council asleep at the wheel?

arguments against more apartments in Bondi are pretty thin on the ground

Sydney Olympic Park 2050 plan is up for consultation, and Parramatta Council are fighting against it because they think rarely-used event parking should take priority over homes for people. Make a submission by this Friday: www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/draftplans/e...

Anonymous grubs are letterboxing against public housing in Newtown, please send a submission here: www.planningalerts.org.au/applications... Deadline is TODAY.

Reminder of our upcoming events: Monthly drinks @ Aurora 6pm this Wednesday membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched... AGM @ Ashfield Town Hall 11:30am this Saturday (financial members only) membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...

Inner West Council just had their refusal of a Petersham boarding house overturned in court in a 50pg judgment. The thrust of their argument is that 19 people should be denied a home because some internal trusses on a non-heritage property would no longer be visible.

Reminder that states with the same interest rates and construction cost challenges have managed to build much more housing than us.

Incredible final sign off from Michael Koziol. It’s easy to forget that two years ago the conversation on housing was very different. The ability of journos to see through the facile arguments of planners and heritage advocates has been instrumental in that change. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

The reality is there are a few places in Sydney where new housing still stacks up very well, even with increased construction costs: the north, east and to a lesser extent inner west. The failure to zone for homes in these places makes housing everywhere else more expensive.

It shouldn't be remarkable that a politician is stating simple facts like this, but it's truly remarkable how quickly the rhetoric has shifted here. The era of planners carrying water for exclusionary, wealthy suburbs is coming to an end.

The Premier has used his Bradfield oration to announce a new state govt approval pathway available to developments worth >$60m in Sydney. Says there are too many barriers, too many DAs stuck in the system.

Hello Bluesky! We're AHNA, a national alliance of local community activists fighting for better cities and abundant housing—more homes where people want to live—all over Australia.

Burwood Council are taking submissions on their alternative to the TOD program at Croydon- which involves moving most of the housing as far away from the station as possible. We've written a submission guide, tell Council to do better by next Monday! www.sydney.yimby.au/blog/submiss...

Who had “a cone shaped mound assembled in 1988” on their heritage bingo card?

Big string of advocacy wins for us over the last few weeks! If you’d like to see us keep smashing it in 2024 please get involved: sydney.yimby.au/membership

#50precinctsandametro

It would be great if the NSW government were embarking on a “massive housing density push” as reported. However, recent proposals fall short of this lofty goal. If yesterday’s leak is correct there are a mere 7 Transit Oriented Development precincts. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

We are at the Georges River Council meeting tonight, supporting plans to rezone land immediately adjacent to Mortdale Station.

Our activist training event this Sunday got a write up in the Tele (paywalled): www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/ce... Registration here if you want to learn how to fight for housing in your area: membership.sydney.yimby.au/public/sched...

I love this video from Building Beautifully + @sydney.yimby.au. Excellent comms. (I still struggle with how we talk about the role of medium vs high density as YIMBYs but that's a discussion for a future thread!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iKE...

We’ve been given a feature in the Guardian, check it out: https://t.co/K5cB3Rm3BD

It took *four years* for this 15 unit development with 20% affordable units to get approved. Ping ponged between Woollahra Council, planning panel and Land & Environment Court over minor questions of bulk and whether it was allowed to have a roof terrace.

Woollahra Council is trying to bulk heritage list a bunch of churches. This is a bad idea for a few reasons: first if the building becomes unsuitable or unmaintainable for the parish, redevelopment is their only option.