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 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 7/12/2023 I was disappointed this week that Council was unable to agree on formally requesting that Angelo Tsirekas, resign from his position as Mayor following a finding of corrupt conduct by ICAC. The Council meeting this week considered a motion proposed by Councillor Ferguson that noted that the Independent Commission Against
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by Councillor Charles Jago, City of Canada Bay Council Density and infrastructure The government has set planning targets for each council in Sydney to approve new dwellings, so future population growth is locked in. However, the government has neglected the infrastructure that residents need – public transport, public schools, hospitals and more. Key examples of
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Council has now agreed to update its Local Environmental Plan (LEP). This major document controls all development across Canada Bay. Council will update it because the previous version from 2013 is now out of date. The key agenda concern for all councillors was to minimise the impact of the NSW state government’s dodgy low rise
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One little thing I discovered this week: the NSW government controlled “IHAPs” (Independent Hearing and Assessment Panels) across Sydney all have now been renamed “Local Planning Panels” – by a direction from the Minister for Local Government. Here we see a great example of Orwellian “doublespeak”, with the panels staffed predominantly by people recruited and
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Most people reading this page will be dealing with some kind of development application that they support or don’t support. Hopefully this page will help you. Objections First of all, don’t send your objection to a councillor thinking they will be able to listen and get the application rejected at a council meeting. That’s because
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As of 1 March, the NSW state government has stopped councillors in Canada Bay from determining the outcomes of any development approvals (DAs). The excuse is to stop corruption. The “solution” is to remove the democratic influence of councils on development across Canada Bay, with the NSW government grabbing control and planning laws made even
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Thursday, July 27, 2017 | The State government has announced that it will not continue to force council mergers where councils have taken the government to Court. Canada Bay Greens Councillor Pauline Tyrrell has been the only councillor to consistently oppose any forced council mergers over the past two years. She hailed this decision as a
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