Newsletter 49 – Crows Nest

Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
On October 27, 2022
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We need to plan for North Sydney’s future. Crows Nest North Sydney’s larger villages all formed around transport hubs – Cremorne, Neutral Bay, Cammeray, North Sydney and Crows Nest. What happens to a village when the hub moves – what happens, for example, if it moves from the intersection of the Pacific Highway, Willoughby Road […]

Newsletter 48 – Olympic Pool

Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
On October 17, 2022

Newsletter 48 – 17 October 2022 There’s a lot of talk about the cost of North Sydney Olympic Pool (NSOP) rebuild and what it might cost – nothing like getting the facts sorted first. North Sydney Olympic Pool was originally built in 1936; it has three major elements: 50-metre “Olympic Pool”; 25-metre pool; and Grandstand […]

Newsletter 47 – Tall Buildings

Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
On October 17, 2022

We need to plan for North Sydney’s future. Let’s talk about tall buildings. North Sydney hosts more than 100 buildings with more than 12 storeys. The community has over time had the need to provide amenities the cost for which were beyond its capacity to pay. One funding device was to allow developers to build […]

Newsletter 46 – Cars and Parking

Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
On October 17, 2022

We need to plan for North Sydney’s future. A future, like the past, where disruption be an on-going reality? Electric light and the lengthening of the “working” day. Internet and the change in the nature of “work” and the places where it’s carried out. Let’s look at cars and parking. The Toyota vision – it […]