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Funding approved to fast track road upgrades in growing communities
The upgrade of Annangrove Road, near the Windsor Road intersection, and Terry Road, at the proposed new Box Hill shopping centre, are a step closer.
Council has been successful in securing Special Infrastructure Contribution (SIC) funding from the NSW Government for the design component for both road upgrades.
The road upgrades may receive further funding for construction, subject to the completion of designs, their cost and the availability of SIC funding in future years. SICs are paid by developers to share the cost of delivering essential infrastructure required to support growing communities.
In the media
Productivity Commission report charts change in social
housing provision
The annual 2021 Productivity Commission report on
government services and housing reveals that the ongoing long-term
reduction in the number of public housing dwellings (17 February
2021).
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Victoria
Designs and tender released for eighth vertical
school
Victoria will soon have another new vertical government
school to address population growth across the inner city. The
project has been funded by the Labor Government with more than $36
million invested in the Victorian Budget 2020-21, a further $5
million delivered from the Infrastructure Planning and Acceleration
Fund (17 February 2021).
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Electric vehicle technology pulls in to
Green Building Council of Australia (
GBCA) announces the launch of the first phase of Green Star Online, a new platform that allows projects to easily apply for a Green Star rating. Green Star Online streamlines the application process and improves customer experience for project managers and GBCA members (19 January 2021). More.
Victoria
La Trobe sports stadium scores top sustainability ratings
The sports stadium built as part of La Trobe University s Sports Park development, has been awarded Australia s first ‘6 Star Green Star Design and As Built v1.2 certified rating for a sports building by the Green Building Council Australia (20 January 2021). More.
Developers prep for Melbourne s newest suburb Pakenham East
Dull, dispiriting and downright unimaginative: Sydney s aerotropolis doesn t fly
Elizabeth FarrellyColumnist, author, architecture critic and essayist
January 16, 2021 12.10am
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Aero-what? Aerotropolis? Seriously? As starship Earth and her motley crew hover warily on the edge of existential crisis, cities everywhere are promising to end the filth and destruction. Paris boldly outlines a 15-minute city; Sweden, besting that, proposes one-minute hyperlocalism . Heavens, even Saudi is building a mega-city based on the five-minute walk. This is nothing less than urban revolution, a deep-clean of our relationship to nature. The world is learning a hard lesson. We must live smaller and more local, more respectful of the biome, more real – and Sydney sends in the dozers for an aerotropolis?
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The NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment’s deputy secretary for Place and Infrastructure in Greater Sydney Brett Whitworth says his Department will create a strategic plan for Greater Parramatta and the Olympic Peninsula (GPOP) that sets a 20-year vision for the 6,000-hectare corridor.
The delivery of vital infrastructure will be front and centre for the NSW Government’s strategic planning and delivery of new homes, jobs and open space in and around Greater Sydney’s Central River City.
“Greater Parramatta already has a diverse and growing economy, supporting more than 150,000 jobs and 190,000 people. New infrastructure and strategic planning will bring more jobs, homes, and fantastic open space,” says Whitworth.