Saul Deane, Total Environment Centre (TEC) Urban Sustainability Campaigner, spoke at the Save Greater Sydney Coalition Forum Getting Housing Right. Why it Matters without the spin.
The Save Greater Sydney Coalition Forum Getting Housing Right. Why it Matters without the spin was held at the NSW Parliament Theatrette on Wed 7th August at NSW Parliament Theatrette 6.30-8.30pm.
The Hon. Alister Henskens SC MP, Member for Wahroonga, hosted the Save Greater Sydney Coalition Forum at the NSW Parliament Theatrette.
Joseph O’Donoghue – Author of The real winners of the new council league table, The Fifth Estate, 16 July, 2024 was the MC.
The guest speakers included:
Saul Deane – Urban Sustainability Campaigner
Dr Elizabeth Farrelly – Architectual Author
Michael Pascoe – Author and Journalist
Sharon Veale – CEO & Partner GML Heritage
Dr Peter Sheridan AM– Educator, Professional Photographer and Historian
Saul Deane’s Presentation
About Saul Deane
With degrees in architecture and law, Saul Deane’s legal and architectural practice experience crosses the spatial, representational and governance dimensions involved in Urban Sustainability at the Total Environment Centre (TEC).
Saul also lectures in Communications and has taught in Landscape and Architecture at UTS and UNSW.
His PhD research in the ‘mechanics of public foreshore dispossession within Sydney’, has allowed him to develop his interest in natural and early Australian history.
Saul’s campaign focus is on Sydney’s Koalas and Green Spaces.
About SGSC
FOKE is a member of Save Greater Sydney Coalition (SGSC).
SGSC was formed in response to the Minns Labor Government’s proposed planning reforms for low and mid rise housing in Greater Sydney, Central Coast, Lower Hunter, Greater Newcastle, and Illawarra Shoalhaven regions (the Six Cities Regions) AND the Transport Oriented Development (TOD) SEPP’s – that has been described as the biggest rezoning of Sydney in its history with fears that it will have devastating consequences for our city.
SGSC is not against development. It argues for strategically located, large scale government investment in public housing. The NSW Government is only asking for 2% affordable housing in the TOD SEPP. This means 98% of the new housing will be unaffordable!
Where is the provision for affordable/public housing, equity, heritage, green space, biodiversity and appropriate infrastructure?
There are real threats that any existing affordable housing is being bought by developers and turned into luxury accommodation. Potts Point in Sydney one example. No one seems to be addressing other key drivers of housing crisis – negative gearing and other tax concessions, airbnb, increased population growth, foreign ownership and developers land banking.
SGSC is putting on this Parliamentary Forum to elevate the discussion and challenge the one-size fits all developer driven rezoning changes.
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