http://www.connelly.net.au Town Planner, Fellow of the Planning Institute of Australia Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:52:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en THE Industrial Commission of NSW has recommended that Wagga Wagga Council take legal action for defamation over criticisms of its senior planners. The deputy president of the commission, Justice John Grayson, said the council should seek legal advice as to whether the developer Peter Hurst and the Wagga Wagga Daily Advertiser ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/judge-says-to-act-on-defamation-allegations-the-industrtial-commission-of-nsw-august-17-2010/ THOUSANDS of NSW coastal development sites may never be built on under new government guidelines directing councils to limit construction on beachfront and lakeside land under threat from rising sea levels. The NSW Coastal Planning Guidelines, released today, encourage councils to reject development and rezoning applications on land deemed at risk. ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/guidelines-could-kill-off-coastal-building-kelsey-munro-and-matthew-moore-august-20-2010/ Project Type: Site Planning S J Connelly undertook master planning and environmental impact assessment with respect to the design of a 74 unit affordable housing project near to the existing township of Lennox Head, Northern New South Wales. Location - Lennox Head, NSW, Australia Year - 2010 Client - Greenwood Grove Pty Ltd Web ... http://www.connelly.net.au/case-studies/site-planning/greenwood-chase/ THE Gordon Estate in Dubbo had long been a ghetto of welfare dependency, hopelessness and crime when it gained national notoriety with an alcohol-fuelled riot on New Year's Day 2006. That night, scenes of up to 100 Aborigines attacking two detectives, setting fire to a police car and destroying houses forced ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/httpwwwsmhcomaunswfrom-ghetto-to-grove-a-housing-success-story-20100428-tsh7html/ AUSTRALIA'S population is growing at twice the rate of the rest of the world, after crashing through 22 million late last year. A demographic report shows the population grew at 2.1 per cent in the year to the end of September, outstripping the Philippines, Malaysia, India, Indonesia and Vietnam. The world ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/population-growing-at-twice-global-average-jacob-saulwick-march-26-2010/ THE man in charge of spending $7 billion of federal stimulus funds says the program has been so successful his office should take over most of the state's major planning decisions. The infrastructure co-ordinator-general and chairman of the NSW National Building and Jobs Plan Taskforce, Bob Leece, says he will lodge ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/stimulus-building-chief-in-bid-to-take-over-nsw-planning-matthew-moore-april-19-2010/ NEW houses in NSW are an extraordinary 100 square metres bigger than they were a quarter of a century ago, according to the Bureau of Statistics. In 1984 the average new NSW house was about 159 square metres, giving each of the people in it about 60 square metres of personal ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/the-incredible-colossal-homes-bigger-than-ever-peter-martin-economics-correspondent-april-1-2010/ Local government is suffering its worst financial crisis, with one in four NSW councils on the brink of being unable to pay for services they have an obligation to provide. The president of the Shires Association, Bruce Miller, said the state government had forced councils to pay for essential services such ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/gone-to-pot-councils-on-brink-of-slashing-services-debra-jopson-regional-affairs-april-5-2010/ How big is too big? The former premier Bob Carr says Australia's population should be capped at 28 million. A federal Labor backbencher, Kelvin Thomson, says 26 million. The Stable Population Party of Australia says 23 million. The Greens want an inquiry to settle the matter. The Prime Minister, Kevin ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/population-debate-we-have-to-have-smh-march-29-2010/ Australian urban designer Ruth Durack suggested earlier in the decade (with a passing reference to the Venetian Ghetto) that the urban village is dictated by a rigid form and function which clashes with fundamental principles of sustainablity. She argued for a more free-form of planning which recognizes multiple, interactive systems ... http://www.connelly.net.au/news/practicing-cautionary-placemaking-urbanism-and-the-venetian-ghetto-chuck-march-14-2010/