5 Top of mind initiatives

For a list of Development Applications click here

1) Public Rally - Rise Up, Sydney: A Conversation in the Park

Hosted by: Doing Density Better

You are invited attend a public rally! On Saturday 17 October, from 2pm – 3pm communities from across Sydney are coming together at Goddard Park, Concord to say: we support more housing, but we need a fair plan.

We want housing that people can genuinely afford, close to jobs and family. We want schools, transport, health services, parks and other infrastructure to keep pace with population growth. We want good design, liveable neighbourhoods and protection for the places and heritage communities value. And we want local people to have a genuine voice in decisions that will shape their neighbourhoods for generations.

With the NSW election on 13 March 2027, now is the time to make our voices heard.

Bring your family, friends and neighbours. Bring a picnic. Join the conversation — and help us call for better planning and a fairer future for Sydney.

For additional Information and the RSVP click here to see the full programme

2) Comments of Draft Future DCP Amendment

Visit Canada Bays Council’s web-page by clicking here for background information, of download the Draft DCP document by clicking here

While Council cannot override State Government planning controls — such as the new Low and Mid-Rise Housing provisions through a policy known as the State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) — it can prepare Development Control Plan provisions that provide specific guidance on the design, character and amenity outcomes expected for future development.

Please review this document and send your comments
email: council@canadabay.nsw.gov.au
by Thu 22nd October

3) Contact the Premier

Chris Minns said “We can’t have spot rezonings where developers really call the shots”

Chris, what happened? You said this in 2019 - yet now you’re driving the same over-development you once condemned. What happened to make you backflip so dramatically?

24th Feb 2019 from Chris Minns’ FaceBook Page – click here to see and hear him speak… or here if you don’t use FaceBook

…“We can’t have spot rezonings where developers really call the shots and I’m one of these people that remembered that when the government was elected in 2011 Barry O’Farrell specifically stood up and said that he would return planning powers back to the local communities. Well the exact opposite has happened. People that do not live or reside in the St George Region make the vast bulk of the decisions in relation to major new developments and urban developments throughout the Kogarah Electorate, throughout St George, and really the people that do live here have to deal with the implications of it. So we don’t need to tinker around the edges. We don’t need incremental reform when it come to planning powers in NSW we need a fundamental revolution because its not working for the people that live here.”

1. Write to Chris Minns, cc Kelly Sloane and ask him why he’s changed his mind and why he refuses to meet local groups but has an open door policy to developers
   Chris Minns: office@premier.nsw.gov.au
   Kelly Sloane: vaucluse@parliament.nsw.gov.au

2. Visit the premier’s post on FaceBook and leave a message letting him know what you think