There was a great rally yesterday afternoon (Saturday 17th October 2026) at Goddard Park Concord, organised by the DRDA – Drummoyne Responsible Development Action Group. It was well organised with a lot of local people there, plus representation from action groups across Sydney. I was in really good company. Many spoke about the issues they
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This revised video shows the problems with traffic in George Street North Strathfield. As you may know, all motor vehicle traffic into North Strathfield and Concord West north of Pomeroy Street (on the western side of the railway) can only enter or leave through the intersection of Pomeroy and George Streets. We are reissuing this
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The Greens believe that housing is a basic right for all Australians. How to ensure that everyone has a home that’s affordable, safe and secure? The reality is that we have a housing crisis, made worse by past government “solutions” which included withdrawing from building social housing and leaving almost all new development to private
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Updated 8th October 2024. by Charles Jago Thanks to all of our great members and volunteers for a huge effort on this campaign, especially in the last few days. This has probably been our best campaign ever in several ways, as shown by our best council results ever. Here are some details on the final
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Sunday 16th June Come to our “Meet the candidates” campaign launch on Sunday, 16 June 2024 at the Concord Community Centre, Gipps Street, Concord, starting at 4.30pm for 5pm. Speakers at the event will be Sue Higginson MLC (Greens NSW Planning spokesperson), Charles Jago and Dr Tailoi Ling. Please register for the event. Also see
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Canada Bay Greens is running a team of local residents for the upcoming local Council elections to be held on Saturday, 14 September 2024.Our candidates are current councillor and candidate for mayor Charles Jago with Dr Tailoi Ling (pictured above), as well as Neil Smith, Pauline Tyrrell and Tony Adams (more detail on candidates below).
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Note that this page is now quite out of date, with information that is now incorrect. For more recent information, go to the 2026 rezoning update. New density programs by the NSW government 2023 & 2024 By Councillor Charles Jago Contents The NSW Dept of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) has issued two major changes
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By Councillor Charles Jago We all want to see new housing measures that will put a roof over people’s heads, expanding the quantity of quality housing accessible to everybody. At the council meeting on Tuesday night (20/2/2024), councillors unanimously supported my motion supporting the aims of the NSW government’s package of housing changes, but calling
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by Councillor Charles Jago I support an increase in medium rise development across Canada Bay, provided that the infrastructure is in place to support it. For environmental, economic and social reasons, medium rise offers more benefits than high density. Medium rise will still provide enough additional density to provide a very large number of new
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by Councillor Charles Jago Conservative councillors in Canada Bay argue that we have no choice but to approve many bad development proposals. The argument that councillors need to support oversized development has constantly showed up in previous council debates on developments, leading to acceptance of many oversized developments. The argument says that rejecting the motion
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