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FOKE CALENDAR 2025

Find out what is going on . .

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The need to advance urgent action on the triple planetary crisis is acute in 2025—climate change, nature, land and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste continue to take a terrible toll on the wellbeing of both people and the planet.

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FOKE looks back on 2024

FOKE looks back on 2024 and the work and activities that we have been involved on behalf of our membership

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#FOKE & Ku-ring-gai Council #FOKE & NSW Government #FOKE & NSW Planning #FOKE & TODs #FOKE and NSW Parliament Inquiries #FOKE in 2024 #FOKE looks back on 2024 #Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment 2024

FOKE’s 2025 New Year wishes

FOKE wishes you all a Happy 2025 and a future where Ku-ring-gai’s environment and heritage is trully valued, appreciated and protected by all governments.

#FOKE new year wishes 2025 #FOKE wishes you a Happy 2025 #FOKE's Happy New Year wishes 2025

FOKE Christmas Wishes

FOKE wishes you a restful, safe and rejuvenating Happy Christmas and New Year.

#FOKE #FOKE Christmas 2024 #FOKE Christmas wishes 2024

FOKE’s Submission – TOD Alternative Scenarios

Read FOKE’s Submission to Ku-ring-gai Council’s public exhibition of alternative scenarios to the Transport Oriented Development (TOD)

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#Baseline Study Evidence #Critique of TODs #Deregulation of NSW Planning System #Flawed TOD Controls #FOKE & Ecological Sustainable Development #FOKE & ESD #FOKE's Submission - TOD Alternative Scenarios #Gordon TOD #Housing Delivery Authority #Killara TOD #Ku-ring-gai #Ku-ring-gai Baseline Study #Ku-ring-gai Council #Ku-ring-gai Environment #Ku-ring-gai Heritage. #Ku-ring-gai Overdevelopment #Ku-ring-gai Planning #Ku-ring-gai STIFF #Ku-ring-gai TODs #Ku-ring-gai's Blue Gum High Forest #Ku-ring-gai's cumulative impacts #Ku-ring-gai's Heritage #Ku-ring-gai's tree canopy #NSW 'Wild West' Planning #NSW Planning TODs #Rosevlle TOD #Significant environmental risks to Ku-ring-gai #Significant heritage risks to Ku-ring-gai #Spot rezonings the new planning norm #TOD #TOD & no infrastructure #TOD upsets Sydney #TODs are undemocratic #Undemocratic NSW planning

Vale Bill Jones

Bill Jones was an extraordinary Ku-ring-gai bushcare volunteer who lived his life knowing how precious Ku-ring-gai’s forests and bushland are

#Bicentennial Park Bushcare #Bill Jones Bush Regenerator #Bill Jones Environmentalist #Ku-ring-gai Bush Regenerators #Ku-ring-gai Bushcare #KuBES #Quarry Creek Bushcare #Vale Bill Jones #Wallalong Crescent Bushcare

FOKE Newsletter Dec 2024

Read FOKE Newsletter, December 2024

#A TOD of a time #Alternative TOD Scenarios #Better Planning Network condemn HAD #Developer led planning in NSW #Developers rights before community interests in NSW #FOKE always fighting for Ku-ring-gai #FOKE celebrates 30th Anniversary #FOKE Newsletter #FOKE Newsletter Dec 2024 #FOKE thanks Greg Taylor #FOKE thanks Simon Lennon #HAD #HAD & TODs #Has NSW Planning been captured by developers' interests #Housing Delivery Auhtority7 (HAD) #Housing Delivery Authority #Kathy Cowley #Kathy Cowley FOKE President #Kiersten Fishburn #Kiersten Fishburn and spot rezonings #Kiersten Fishburn HAD #Kiersten Fishburn has assisted with the unblocking of many significant development proposals #Kiersten Fishburn praised by developers #Kiersten Fishburn Secretary NSW Department of Planning #Kiersten Fishburn the 'right person for the job' #Local democracy under threat #Minns new planning langauge includes TODs and HAD #New planning lexicon TOD 7 HAD #NSW Local Government Association condemns HAD #NSW Planning's gang of three #Paul Scully Disclosure Statement 2023-2024 #Paul Scully keynote speaker at TOD confernce 10.10.24 #Paul Scully meets with Colliers #Paul Scully meets with Lendlease #Paul Scully meets with Meritan and NSW Premier #Paul Scully meets with Meriton #Paul Scully meets with Mirvac #Paul Scully meets with Stockland #Paul Scully meets with Urban Development Taskforce'# #Paul Scully meets with Urban Taskforce #Paul Scully's Meetings #Paul Scully's meetings with developers #Paul Scully6 meets with Property Council of NSW #Peter Achterstraat #Peter Achterstraat and TODs #Planning gang of three - Draper #Rape of Ku-ring-gai #Simon Draper #Simon Draper and spot rezonings #Simon Draper HAD #Simon Draper praised by developers #Simon Draper Secretary Premier's Deparm #Simon Draper Secretary Premier's Department #State Capture of NSW Planning #State capture of the NSW Planning System #TOD in German means 'death' #TODs: The Future or Failure?’ Conference #Tom Forrest #Tom Forrest CEO of Urban Taskfroce #Tom Forrest welcomes HAD #Tom Gellibrand #Tom Gellibrand and HAD #Tom Gellibrand and spot rezonings #Tom Gellibrand Infrastructure NSW CEO #TomGellibrand and spot rezonings #Vested interests controlling NSW Planning #Will this be the 'tod' of Ku-ring-gai?

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#FOKE #FOKE - fighting to save Ku-ring-gai #Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment #Friends of Ku-ring-gai Environment (FOKE) #Join FOKE #Latest Ku-ring-gai News #Sign up to FOKE

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 change on the environment and communities’.

#Ku-ring-gai #Ku-ring-gai Council #Ku-ring-gai Environment #Ku-ring-gai Planning #Ku-ring-gai Urban Forest #Legislative Council’s Portfolio Committee No. 7 – Planning and Environment #NSW Housing Policy #Planning system and the impacts of climate change on the environment and communities Report #Portfolio 7 thanks FOKE #TOD