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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By Councillor Charles Jago Note: with the release of the TOD zoning proposal in mid-July 2024, some aspects of this page are not fully up to date and still need additional changes. Contents New density programs by the NSW government The NSW Dept of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) has issued two major changes to
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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 Charles Jago, 3rd August 2023 In the last week, a new hot water system was installed in our house. Unlike the pre-existing hot water system (a 4.8 kW, 250 litre electric Rheem system which was showing signs of age), the new system uses a “heat pump” with reverse-cycle air-conditioning technology. Not only that, but
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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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Liberal politicians always say that their party are the best economic managers. As this quick review of their past 10 years in power, both federally and in NSW shows – actually that is not the case. They just spin a better line and are better at hiding the truth. Money into roads The Liberals used
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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
Charles Jago in Daily Telegraph
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By Charles Jago, the Greens candidate for Reid. I have received a lot of letters raising issues about transport in an email campaign from many individuals through a campaign organised by the Australian Automobile Association. These are important issues. Transport is a critical concern for many people living in Sydney. Key issues listed by people
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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