According to an article in today's Sydney Morning Herald, the NSW state government is moving to bypass councils and rezone sites nominated by developers as suitable for tens of thousands of new homes.
Mr McMahon of Wollondilly Shire Council points out that "we don't want just residential". Any such new tranches of housing need to be associated with commercial development to give local job opportunities, as well as shopping, schools, etc.
One of the big complaints registered by Beecroft residents against the Uniting Church's Development Application 1305, for 51 new residential units between Hannah Street and Copeland Road, is that there is no supporting infrastructure. No places for entertainment, no room in local schools, no room on the roads. It's not good enough for state government to hand a "licence to build" to developers without also providing the infrastructure needed by the new residents.
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