Todays NSW Government performance report on local councils shows the time it takes to get a development approval has blown out by more than 10 per cent for 37 local councils.
North Sydneys council is treating its central business district like an Adelaide suburb ignoring the areas importance to Sydneys status as a world city, according to the NSW Urban Taskforce.
Western Sydney families will benefit from the State Governments decision to exempt the North and South West growth centres from the Threatened Species Act, according to the NSW Urban Taskforce.
Local councils objections to reducing levies on new homes is nothing more than bureaucratic empire building, according to Aaron Gadiel, CEO of the NSW Urban Taskforce.
The Land and Environment Court has caught Ashfield Council misusing heritage rules to block the expansion of a local school, according to Aaron Gadiel, Chief Executive of the NSW Urban Taskforce .