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Huge planning rules changes will create problems across Canada Bay LGA

Councillor post, Heritage, Housing, Local-Canada Bay, Planning /

By Councillor Charles Jago The new programs The NSW Dept of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) has issued two major changes to planning rules in recent months. These include: The problems in brief: these programs, intended to start this year, bring a huge and destructive change to existing planning rules. The major problems include: For […]

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Government over-reach on housing – let Council do it properly

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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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What kind of development do we need?

Councillor post, Housing, Local government, Local-Canada Bay, Planning, Sustainable living /

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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Councillors back Bushells developer not the community

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By Councillor Charles Jago Summary: For the Bushells site on Burwood Road Concord, councillors approved a development that was roughly twice the scale of surrounding developments, and strongly opposed by the community. Their argument was that if they did not approve it, the government would approve the same or worse. But they have never been

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Charles Jago in Daily Telegraph
climate picnic article

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Extract from Daily Telegraph article of Monday, 11th April 2022 …The Greens candidate for Reid, Charles Jago, attended and said this election provided a stark choice. “This government has been unresponsive on climate and their policies are going in the wrong direction,” he said. “We have an opportunity to go down a different direction in

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Notice of Motion on Council phase-out of “natural gas”

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This motion is being introduced by Councillor Charles Jago at the July 2021 Council meeting. The purpose of this motion is to ensure that Council phases out all use of “natural gas” in its operations as soon as possible. This motion is important because it allows Council to contribute to reducing carbon emissions, in the

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Save Willow Grove from government vandals – save our heritage

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Canada Bay Greens strongly supports the efforts of Parramatta Greens and the North Parramatta Residents’ Action Group to save Willow Grove, a beautiful heritage-listed Italianate villa in the heart of Parramatta from removal as part of the creation of a new Parramatta Powerhouse museum. The resident protest is being supported by a green ban on

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