The NSW Minister for Planning has agreed on a review of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Affordable Housing) upon a request by the then Deputy Lord Mayor Chiang Lim.

This review by the Department of Planning is principally in response of the consequential effects of overriding local area's publicly agreed housing densities, thereby making it a backdoor upzoning without the appropriate considerations and safeguards against negative social impacts and outcomes.

Shirley MacLaine has a wonderful saying. “It is useless to hold a person to anything s/he says while s/he is in love, drunk, or running for office.”

During the federal election, Federal Labor announced $2.1bn for the Parramatta-Epping Rail Link, plus $500m to be provided from the NSW State Labor.

I was also very sceptical because I received a letter from the NSW Transport Minister dated only 10 days prior stating that the NSW State Government’s 10 year horizon does not include the Parramatta-Epping Rail Link.

There is a proposal to demolish Richie Benaud’s childhood home and construct a 2 storey dual occupancy at 5 Sutherland Road, North Parramatta. We did seek an Interim Heritage Order from the NSW State Government but this was rejected by the NSW Planning Minister, the Hon Tony Kelly MP.

Upon a unanimous vote, I was able to gets Parramatta to begin dialogue with electric vehicle infrastructure providers for Western Sydney and New South Wales.

With a vote of 9-to-5, Councillors voted to ban all brothels and sex related services as an acceptable land use, making Parramatta the first community in the State of New South Wales to defy the NSW State Government’s planning requirements, after 15 years of trying to make the law work.

Under the NSW Government’s new planning regulations template imposed on all NSW local Councils, all NSW local councils are required to include brothels and sex related services in their local planning regulations.