Tag: city-of-sydney

Review submissions warn of squandered investments

Buried Italian dumpsters clear streets, confound rodents

Local governments want faster shut-down powers.

It’s the ultimate junk food fix: put in empty drink containers and get back a food truck voucher.

A selection of roads in Sydney will be recast in pale grey under an innovative new trial that aims to determine whether reflective surfaces can help take the sting out of summer by reducing the ambient temperature of asphalt.

The City of Sydney is digging into its mammoth pile of garbage with a new clean energy technology that aims to transform stinking gasses into an upcycled energy resource pumped back into the power grid.

Over the next decade, Sydney’s growing population will see a radical transformation of the central business district following the council’s unprecedented approval of a record $1.94 billion building and construction program.

The availability of safe, clean and accessible loos in city centres is regarded as a defining, if understated, hallmark of a civilised society. Now the City of Sydney says it wants plenty more of them.

Angry ratepayers don’t just live in houses. Shopkeepers and the high-rise industry in NSW say they want a greater representation at local government elections, even though they usually fail to cast a ballot when they are entitled to.

A controversial plan to sell high value public housing property assets around the Sydney Harbour foreshore area has generated outrage from local government and community groups .