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How Councillors Have Voted

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On November 6, 2023
Does Council support community consultation? We hear a lot about community consultation – North Sydney Council says it does a great deal of it. Ever wondered whether consultation influences Councillors in how they vote? Council’s ambivalent attitude to cars is instructive – voting for more roads in the east (Neutral Bay village) but less parking […]
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Newsletter 61 – The State Government

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On October 9, 2023
Government needs to be transparent + people in Government should be accountable. Perrottet out Minns in – what could it mean for North Sydney? The Minns’ Government seems set to:  have a shot at addressing the housing shortage with heavy reliance of the private sector (expect an avalanche of applications for development approvals), ignore the […]
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Newsletter 55 – Parks For Money

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On March 14, 2023
  • Cycle Ramp Milsons Point
Our Community has proposed a ramp between the bridge and Alfred Street that does not destroy Bradfield Park – Transport for NSW just won’t have a bar of it North Sydney Council has repeatedly opposed Transport for NSW’s (TfNSW) proposal to build a linear ramp through Bradfield Park and supported the community’s alternative fold back […]
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Newsletter 51 – Broken Promises and Fading Dreams

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On December 12, 2022
  • waverton bowling club
Dealing with the State Government – experiences that remind me of Peter Finch (the newsreader) in the (1976) film, Network Just like Peter Finch “I’m as mad as hell ..” .. but for me the cause is being ignored by the State Government; watching it plunder our open green space – even worse, watching our […]
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Newsletter 41 –  The State Government v Open Green Space

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On March 23, 2022
At present, cyclists wanting to cross the Harbour Bridge, like pedestrians, have to go up/down 55 steps. Transport for NSW advocates building a linear ramp for cyclists between the bridge and Alfred Street – right through the middle of Bradfield Park. What’s infuriating is Transport for NSW steadfastly refuses to consider the alternative concept plan […]
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Newsletter 36 –  Precincts

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On September 28, 2021
  • Bradfield Park, harbour bridge cycleway
Precincts – an exercise in participatory democracy. There’s – no better way to make Councillors aware of voters’ concerns Back in 1972 North Sydney Council first put in place the mechanism to foster participatory democracy. we called it the Community Precinct System; divided North Sydney’s local government area in to (now) 26 precincts (not all […]
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Newsletter 35 –  Bradfield Park

  • Posted by IanMuttonAdmin
  • On September 26, 2021
  • Bradfield Park, harbour bridge cycleway
Bradfield Park and a cycleway – a questionable process What do you do: When the Government announces a project that appears to violate the Auditor General’s guidelines  intended to ensure infrastructure projects: are actually needed; represent value for money; based on sound assumptions; with improved safety for all? When the project fails to meet its […]
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**Open Letter to F Wilson re bikeways
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