Information Forums on the FIVE Scenarios
Ku-ring-gai Council is presenting information forums on five rezoning scenario proposals around Roseville, Lindfield, Killara and Gordon stations.
FOKE
Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment
Welcome to FOKE
Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment is a community group dedicated to the conservation and protection of Ku-ring-gai’s built and natural environment. On behalf of residents we work for the maintenance of Ku-ring-gai’s built and natural heritage and the enhancement of its existing character and amenity.
Sydney needs Ku-ring-gai’s cool trees
Australia’s two largest capital cities have far too little tree canopy, which increases the cities’ heat island effects and leads to increased rates of obesity, depression, anxiety and heatstroke.
Councils sidelined
Property developers will be able to propose their own spot rezoning and planning controls for large developments, bypassing local councils
Suburban Skyscrapers
The Victorian government says Melbourne by 2050 will be home to nearly 8 million people and as part of a plan to future prove this city it wants to introduce
Portfolio 7 thanks FOKE
Sue Higginson, Chair of the Legislative Council's Portfolio Committee No. 7 – Planning and Environment, has announced the release of its report – 'Planning system and the impacts of climate
FOKE on Planning & Climate Change
FOKE's submission: Inquiry into Planning System & the Impacts of Climate Change on the Environment & Communities
Local Govt rejects new planning body
Delegates at the Local Government NSW Annual Conference have condemned a move by the State Government to establish a new planning body to bypass local government on large housing developments.
Minns wants Developers to bypass local government
NSW Premier Minns says developers will soon be able to bypass local government on large housing developments.
Ku-ring-gai Community Strategic Plan on Exhibition
Ku-ring-gai Council's Community Strategic Plan - the long-term vision of Ku-ring-gai - is on public exhibition until WED 11 December 2024
Let’s improve Councillors’ Conduct
The Office of Local Government (OLG) has prepared a Discussion Paper to seek the community's views by 29 November 2024
Close St Ives Shopping Village Roads?
Write to your Councilllors asking what the public benefit in closing and divesting the St Ives Shopping Village roads BEFORE 26 NOV 2024
Hawkesbury: urban densification, population growth & climate change pressure
Tell the NSW Government that the priority threat is their own planning policies. Deadline 24 November 2024
FOKE meets with Mayor 11.11.24
FOKE met with Mayor Cr Christine Kay (St Ives Ward) on Monday 11 November 2024.
Minns BRADFIELD Oration
Premier Chris Minns has announced that he will allow developers to bypass council approvals and to seek spot rezoning, in order to speed up approval and delivery times.
Residents tell FOKE . . .
At FOKE's Stall at Gordon Market on 10 November 2024 this is what residents said . . .
Alternative Scenario Maps
See the four alternative scenario maps. The 5th one will become available when it is placed on public exhibition.
Alternative scenarios to TOD soon to be on public exhibition
Click here to be notified of the commencement of the exhibition period
Why so much debate in CONFIDENTIAL?
Why so much confidential debate? Why did it take one hour & forty minutes?
Warning – 45 storeys could become 60
Under the current legislation a developer can get an uplift of 30% with a contribution of affordable housing.
Australia’s broken home ownership
How can we solve housing affordability by 'One size Fails All' housing policies?
Plans to squeeze 30,000 residents into Sydney Olympic Park
How will all this overdevelopment across Greater Sydney deliver a better city?
Wake-up Water Costs
A Sydney Morning Herald's editorial asks about the true water costs behind the NSW's Government housing densification reforms.
Water costs to skyrocket
The cost of water is forecast to skyrocket across Sydney, as a result of the NSW Governments to increase housing density from burgeoning population increases across Greater Sydney.
Important dates
VISIT US AT THE GORDON MARKETS
FOKE will have a stall at the Gordon Markets on Sunday 8th December from 8am to 2pm.
The Alternative Transport Oriented Development (TOD) SEPP Scenarios NOW ON Exhibition until Tuesday 17 December.
You can find out more about the Scenario details, attend online and in-person public meetings in November and December, and provide feedback. Follow this link Housing Scenarios.
If you live within 800 metres of Roseville, Lindfield, Killara and Gordon stations. This will affect you!
Community Strategic Plan
Council is seeking feedback on this important document that will determine Ku-ring-gai’s goals and priorities going forward. You can review the Plan and provide feedback here.
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Friends of Kuringgai Environment
FOKE is a community group with a focus across the Ku-ring-gai area, defending our natural heritage and opposing inappropriate overdevelopment.
Ku-ring-gai Councillors will consider a proposal to redevelop the St Ives Shopping Centre that will involve potentially selling Council land and road reserves at the Council meeting of 26 November 2024.![]()
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St Ives Shopping Village has advised of its intention to redevelop and expand the shopping centre.![]()
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The proposal is, in part, contingent on the acquisition of Council-owned local road at Denley Lane, Cowan Lane, and Durham Avenue St Ives, land at 176 Mona Vale Road St Ives, and a laneway to Denley Avenue St Ives.![]()
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This matter will be voted on at the Council meeting of 26 November 2024.![]()
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Serious questions need to be asked about selling Council owned land to support a major shopping centre redevelopment and what this will mean for the future of St Ives?![]()
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Proposed redevelopment of St Ives Shopping Village involving adjoining Council land and road reserve![]()
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Ordinary Meeting of Council – 26 November 2024 GB.12 / 1
FOKEs latest Enews to Members and supporters.
FOKE News: Five TOD Scenarios will soon be on Public Exhibition
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Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment (FOKE) is now assessing how to respond to Council’s five alternative scenarios to the Transport Oriented Development (TOD) that will soon be placed on public exhib...
What we heard from some of the residents who visited the FOKE stall to look at the 4 soon to be 5 TOD Scenarios that council will be placing on public exhibition until 17 December 2024. ![]()
"1. You can’t retrofit an area for high rise![]()
2. We chose to live here because of the trees and now we are told that the planning will remove the trees![]()
3. The TODs are a nightmare![]()
4. Nothing should be done until after the council's legal action is finalised.![]()
5. Once scenarios go into the 800 metres it will effectively wipe out heritage![]()
6. We need an audit of additional commuter, on street parking that will be needed for the 23,000 additional dwellings![]()
7. The high rise dwellings will be ‘opal towers’![]()
8. What about the extra special levies that people will have to pay with apartment blocks![]()
9. High rise = concrete cancer![]()
10. Lifts in high rise will only last 25 years![]()
11. High rise not sustainable. What if there is a power failure and people have no air conditioning and lifts?![]()
12. What about the risk of flash flooding events in car parks endangering people’s lives?![]()
13. Where is the infrastructure?![]()
14. Population increases of 23,000 TOD dwellings (23 000 x 2.25 people =57,500 additional people + low to mid rise + dual occupancies will overwhelm livability ![]()
15. The sewer on east side of Railway Station cannot cope with increased population."![]()
16. Killara High School is already overcapacity![]()
17. The inevitability of ‘vertical’ high rise schools![]()
18. Hospitals cannot cope as it is. How can they cope with such a large increase in population?![]()
19. NSW Government is ruining everything![]()
20. Immigration numbers has to reduce![]()
21. Don’t buy into strata. It is a nightmare. Strata man![]()
22. Massive uplift in rezoning mans enormous profits for developers![]()
23. Why haven’t developers built in Gordon for the last 10 years when they could have built 7-10 storeys?![]()
24. Where will the birds and wildlife go?![]()
25. The wildlife is not going to survive.![]()
26. We need “Untouchable zones” across Sydney to protect environmentally sensitive areas
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FOKE's latest news: 5 TOD Scenarios to be on public exhibition soon
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Water Bills to go up next year due to the Minns Government Housing Policy![]()
According to the article"Sydney residents are being dragooned into helping pay for the Labor government’s attempt to solve the housing crisis. Eleven months ago, Premier Chris Minns announced his signature housing plan to rezone land for increased density around dozens of railway stations across Sydney. Minns staked his political future on delivering desperately needed homes. His government needs to build 377,000 new homes across NSW – 70 per cent of them in Sydney – by 2029 to meet its obligations under the national housing accord........But things seem to have stopped going to plan; developers complain about hold-ups over the provision of water and sewer capacity. Two months back Water Minister Rose Jackson found a whipping boy, publicly branding Sydney Water “a big problem” when it comes to releasing land for greenfield development, accusing it and the previous government of hugely underinvesting in capital works."
Water bills to cover price for not keeping up with Sydney development
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Sydney Water’s proposed 50 per cent hike in water rates is too big an ask.