by PPPG | Jan 14, 2026 | News
The Department of Planning and Environment emailed PPPG two days before Christmas informing us that the Deputy Secretary had approved the application for the Concept Proposal for Mixed Use with Affordable Housing – 45-53 Macleay Street [the Chimes], (SSD-79316759 )....
by PPPG | Jan 13, 2026 | News
“It is interesting to note that one day after the SMH runs a story about young people getting a foothold in the inner Sydney property market by purchasing smaller dwellings, such as studio and one-bedroom apartments (“Cassandra grew up in a large family home. Then she...
by Anne Davies | Jan 12, 2026 | News
Eamonn Fitzpatrick, a former media adviser to several Labor premiers and prime ministers, says he ‘self-reported two genuine errors’ and rectified the lobbyist register immediately New South Wales ministers have been warned not to meet alone with one of the most...
by Kate Shaw | Jan 12, 2026 | News
This may come as a surprise given the media narrative, but Australia is not in a generalised housing crisis. Two-thirds of the nation’s householders own or are buying their homes – they are by definition not in housing crisis. The 20 per cent who own...
by Alice Urbe | Jan 12, 2026 | News
Cassandra Macdonald grew up in a large family home on Sydney’s northern beaches. Now she lives in a 28-square-metre inner-city apartment and wouldn’t swap it. While buying a studio in Sydney’s cosmopolitan Potts Point was a financial decision, Macdonald, a high school...
by Jonathan Chancellor | Dec 18, 2025 | News
A writ was issued earlier this month authorising entry by the Sheriff to take possession of the studio apartment of Anastasia Moesses in Sydney’s Potts Point complex, The Chimes. It likely triggers the unseemly aspect of the strata renewal laws into practice next...
