Sweeping changes to meet housing plans could change some of Australia's oldest suburbs forever
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The NSW government's reforms to rezone land near dozens of train stations to allow higher housing density take effect next month.

Predictable NIMBY opposition, but this is a needed change to boost density in NSW cities resulting in increased housing affordability and allowing more people to live without being tethered to a car.

  • RailisonEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    Neighbourhoods change. The city and neighbourhoods you’re clinging to don’t exist anymore. In their wake can come great new neighbourhoods, just different to what was there.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 months ago

      Opened in 1890, the corridor was Sydney’s first suburban railway, and some of the homes nearby have stood for more than a century.

      Most houses within walking distance of those four stations are single dwellings sitting on large blocks.

      So they’re completely inadequate for the needs of the 21st century, but we should preserve them because… they were the first dwellings constructed there? How is this an argument? Your local mall, that was constructed in the 70’s, was also history. Why did you allow it to be torn down or renovated until it was unrecognisable? This entire argument is just heritage-washing NIMBYism from conservatives who are allergic to change of any kind — change that doesn’t directly increase the status quo’s property prices (of course).

      • RailisonEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I mean, it wouldn’t be so bad if the population never changed from what it was 70+ years ago