May 2025

• 21 May 2025: FOKE AGM 2025. FOKE President’s Report (final publication 22 July
• 2025). Read it HERE
• 21 May 2025: FOKE briefs NSW Shadow Planning Minister. See FOKE Briefing
  Notes HERE
• 21 May 2025: 3-9 Park Avenue Gordon (100 apartments) SSD-78775458, CPDM
  P/L HERE. Read FOKE’s Submission HERE
• 21 May 2025: 27-29 Tryon Road Lindfield (76 apartments) SSD-78669234,
  Bridgestone Projects P/L HERE
• 21 May 2025: 12-16 Bent Street Lindfield (115 apartments) SSD-78156462, Trustee
  for The Sundale Northland Development Unit Trust HERE
• 28 May 2025: 2-4 Woodside & 1-3 Reid Street Lindfield (89 apartments) SSD79261463, CPDM P/L HERE
• 28 May 2025: 2-8 Highgate Road Lindfield (84 apartments) SSD-78493518, CPDM
  P/L HERE. See FOKE Submission HERE
• 28 May 2025: 21-27 Roseville Avenue and 16-24 Lord Street, Roseville (SSD78996460). Read FOKE’s Submission HERE
• 29 May 2025: Ku-ring-gai up to 20 State Significant Developments
  
  

June 2025

• 3 June 2025: Deadline for submissions for 59-63 Trafalgar Avenue, 1A and 1B Valley
• Road Lindfield (237 apartments) SSD-79276958 State Significant Development
• (SSD) HERE
• 3 June 2025: Deadline for submissions for 10,14, & 14a Stanhope Road, Killara (135
  apartments) SSD-81890707, CPDM P/L State Significant Development (SSD) HERE
• 5 June 2025: World Environment Day. FOKE holds World Environment Day Tour.
  This FOKE walk started at the Annie Wyatt Park, cnr of St Johns Avenue & Henry
  Street, Gordon (opposite Gordon Railway Station) for a tour of Gordon to Roseville.
  Ku-ring-gai is listed on the United Nations website HERE
• 5 June 2025: Extraordinary Council Meeting re regarding the Ku-ring-gai Transport
  Oriented Development (TOD) Preferred Alternative was adjourned to Thursday 5 June
• Mayor Christine Kay uses her casting vote to DEFER the Extraordinary
  Meeting to Thursday 5 June 2025 for Council to consider community views expressed
  at the 21 May Extraordinary Public Forum (22 May 2025). See Council report on Kuring-gai TOD Preferred Alternative HERE
• 6 June 2025: DA for 23-25 Lorne Ave, Killara
• 6 June 2025: Sydney Morning Herald article After fighting new housing, this Sydney
  council just voted for more by David Barwell See HERE
• 7 June 2025: FOKE holds World Environment Day Tour. This FOKE walk started at
  the Annie Wyatt Park, cnr of St Johns Avenue & Henry Street, Gordon (opposite
  Gordon Railway Station) for a tour of Gordon to Roseville. Ku-ring-gai is listed on the
  United Nations website HERE
• 8 June 2025: FOKE Information Stall at Gordon Markets
• 10 June 2025: Forum on a Non-Plastic Future for Community Ovals, Ku-ring-gai Town Hall, 1186 Pacific Hwy, Pymble
• 12 June 2025: Deadline for submissions for 3a,3b,5a, 7 Burgoyne and 1&3 Pearson
  Avenue and 4 Burgoyne Lane Gordon (105 apartments) Willow Tree Planning State
  Significant Development (SSD) HERE
• 16 June 2025: FOKE Committee meeting
• 17 June 2025: FOKE launches Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion dedicated website: www.kuringgaigeoregion.au
• 18 June 2025: Deadline for submissions for 2,4,6,8,10,12,14, &16 Pockley Avenue, Roseville (apartments) SSD-77825469, Aqualand State Significant Development
  (SSD) HERE
• 18 June 2025: Deadline for submissions for 2-4 Larkin Street and 1-5 Pockley Avenue,
  Roseville (apartments) SSD-77829461, Aqualand State Significant Development (SSD) HERE
• 18 June 2025: 6.30 pm Save Greater Sydney Coalition meeting via ZOOM
• 23 June 2025: SSD 9-21 Beaconsfield Road, Lindfield
• 23 June 2025: 4.30 pm FOKE Committee Meeting via Zoom
• 26 June 2025: NSW State of the Environment Report tabled. The Nature Conservation Council of NSW, the state’s leading environmental organisation describes the report as a “grim picture of the health of NSW ecosystems”.
  
  

July 2025

• 2 June 2025 6.30: Save Greater Sydney Coalition Meeting
• 13 July 2025: draft NSW Heritage Strategy submission deadline. Read FOKE’s Submission HERE; National Trust of Australia (NSW) Submission HERE; Better Planning Network (BPN) Submission HERE
• 17 July 2025: FOKE Newsletter HERE
• 21 July 2025: FOKE Submission 19-25 Balfour Street, Lindfield HERE
• 22 July 2025: Ku-ring-gai Mayoral Minute on Transport Oriented Development (TOD) preferred scenario update. Read it HERE
• 22 July 2025: Ku-ring-gai Council consider the amendment of the Ku-ring-gai Development Control Plan to include Local Character Areas and endorse its public exhibition. See HERE
• 28 July 2025: Nicolette Boele MP, Member for Bradfield NSW, gives her first speech in the House of Representative HERE
• 30 July 2025 6.30 pm: Save Greater Sydney Coalition meeting
• 31 July 2025: FOKE Submission for Inquiry into Access Restrictions to Public Lands and Waterways HERE
  
  

August 2025

• 1 August 2025: Deadline for NSW Upper House Select Committee on Access Restrictions to Public Lands and Waterways Inquiry.
• 5 August 2025: Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion Steering Committee meeting
• 11 August 2025: FOKE Committee Meeting
• 13 August 2025: Ku-ring-gai Council Rates Increase Meeting
• 13 August 2025: 1-5 Nelson Road, Lindfield (167 apartments) SSD 82899468 HERE
• 14 August 2025: Deadline for 11-19 Middle Harbour Road, Lindfield (173 apartments) SSD 82900461
• 18 August 2025: FOKE Committee Meeting
• 20-21 August 2025: FOKE attends NSW Government’s NSW Heritage Forum on the theme of ‘Heritage adapting to the future’
• 23 August 2025: Vale Graham Lewis. Read more HERE. Read FOKE’s draft Mayoral Minute HERE
• 31 August 2025: Ku-ring-gai Council deadline for Increase Rates for Infrastructure Levy
  
  

September 2025

• 1 September 2025: Deadline for Ku-ring-gai Council amendment to Part 14 of the Kuring-gai Development Control Plan (KDCP). The eight Character Areas formalised in the Council adopted Ku-ring-gai Local Character Background Study are proposed to be inserted at the beginning of Part 14 of the KDCP. Read FOKE Submission HERE
• 3 September 2025: FOKE member Graham Lewis’ funeral
• 9 September 2025: 19-25 Balfour Street, Lindfield SSD submission HERE
• 10 September 2025: Submission on Norman Griffith Oval Upgrade HERE
• 11 September 2025: Deadline for submissions for SSD-83478456 development for 21, 23 & 25 McIntosh Street and 55 Werona Avenue, Gordon that neighbours State Heritage listed Eryldene House and Garden proposing 3 buildings, 8 storeys, 162 apartment and 191 car spaces. Read FOKE’s submission HERE
• 11 September 2025: Deadline for submissions for SSD development 19-25 Balfour Street, Lindfield. Read FOKE’s submission HERE
• 17 September 2025: Henry Halloran Debate Sydney University – “The Housing abundance is the Solution”.
• 30 September 2025: Housing NSW Forum – Parramatta Stadium
  
  

October 2025

• 7 October 2025: 16-20 Middle Harbour Road Submission HERE
• 13 October 2025: FOKE Committee Meeting
• 21 October 2025: Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion Steering Committee meeting
• 22 October 2025: Sydney Morning Herald article by David Barwell ‘This high-rise housing reform promised 185,000 homes. One suburb is doing the heavy lifting’ 23.10.25 Read it HERE
• 23 October 2025: Environmental Defenders Office (EDO)’s 40th Anniversary Dinner, Sydney Town Hall. EDO celebrated their 40th Anniversary dinner to recognise four decades of justice for nature, people and our shared planet, and those who have propelled the EDO along the way. Kathy Cowley and Janine Kitson attended representing FOKE.
• 26 October 2025: FOKE (Janine Kitson) speaks at WildThings NSW Forum on the disastrous environmental consequences of the Environment Planning and Assessment (Planning System Reform) Bill 2025
• 29 October 2025: Sydney North Planning Panel Meeting – 5-7 Middle Harbour SSD determination – refused
• 31 October 2025: FOKE meeting with Ku-ring-gai Council on Low and Mid-Rise Housing policy
  
  

November 2025

• 3 November 2025: FOKE attended Jacqui Scruby MP Community Meeting on State Government’s Housing Policies impacting on Mona Vale
• 9 November 2025: FOKE Gordon Markets Stall
• 10 November 2025: FOKE Meeting with Matt Cross MP
• 10 November 2025: FOKE to give evidence at L&E Court hearing 3 @3A Beaconsfield Road, Lindfield SSD
• 11 November 2025: Bendigo Bank presents FOKE with a $1000 cheque
• 11 November 2025: NSW Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Planning System Reforms) Bill 2025 passes that will set environmental protection in NSW back decades.
• 12 November 2025: Forum – How the National Construction Code Shapes Housing
• 18 November 2025: Ku-ring-gai Council abandons its legal action against the NSW Government and approving its TOD Alternative Plan (with NSW Government Amendments).
• 19 November 2025: FOKE raises concern over Mayor’s Media Release regarding Councillor’s vote to discontinue legal action against NSW Government. Read HERE
• 22 November 2025: Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion Talk at St Andrews Uniting Church, Turramurra
• 24 November 2025: FOKE Meeting with Matt Cross MP
• 24 November 2025: Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion Steering Committee meeting
• 26 November 2025: FOKE attends celebration for the centenary of Joseph Maiden’sdeath ( 1896-1925)
• 26 November 2025: FOKE gave evidence at Sydney North Planning Panel Meeting on 24-26 Russell Avenue, Lindfield SSD
• 27 November 2025: Submission deadline for NSW biodiversity credits market. Read FOKE’s submission HERE
  
  

December 2025

• 1 December 2025: EPBC Climate, Conservation and Construction Forum
• 4 December 2025: FOKE attends Better Planning Network AGM
• 4 December 2025: The EDO Briefing – Historical Environmental Reforms
• 8 December 2025: FOKE Committee Meeting – annual Christmas lunch
• 9 December 2025: Lindfield Public School FOKE Presentation of Jean Posen Environment Student Award
• 10 December 2025: Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion Steering Committee luncheon
• 10 December 2025: East Lindfield Public School FOKE Presentation of Jan Langley Sustainability Student Award
• 17 December 2025: FOKE’s Submission on SSD 94893958 Nulla Nulla Street and 4-6 Ku-ring-gai Avenue, Turramurra. Read HERE
• 19 December 2025: FOKE congratulations to FOKE Committee member Christiane Berlioz for her Ku-ring-gai Council Bushcare Outstanding Contribution Award for being a tireless environmental volunteer who has made a difference in Ku-ring-gai for over 17 years. Read HERE
• 19 December 2025: The Minns Government has announced it will sell Hillview Community Health Centre, 1334 Pacific Highway, Turramurra by selling this 10,000m2 heritage conservation site to private property developers.
• 19 December 2025: FOKE Newsletter. Read HERE
  
  

January 2026

• 13 January 2026: FOKE submission for 10,14 & 14A Stanhope Road, Killara –Amended DA HERE
• 18 January 2026: 9-17 Balfour Street, Lindfield SSD Submission HERE
• 28 January 2025: FOKE submission for 27-29 Tryon Road, Lindfield – Amended DA HERE
• 30 January 2026: Deadline for Australia’s draft National Environmental Standards for Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES Standard) and the draft Environmental Offsets Standard. Read FOKE’s Submission HERE
  
  

February 2026

• 2 February 2026: Deadline for 6-24 Lord Street and 21-27 Roseville Avenue, Roseville comprising of four buildings, with 252 dwellings (including 55 affordable housing apartments); three-level basement providing a total of 344 car parking spaces.
• 9 February 2026: FOKE Committee Meeting
• 23 February 2026: Ku-ring-gai Council Gordon Bowling Club Workshop
• 26 February 2026: Read FOKE’s Submission for 16-20 Middle Harbour Road, Lindfield SSD-83431958 HERE
• 26 February 2026: Read FOKE’s Submission for 5-9 Cowan Road, St Ives SSD88948458 HERE
• 27 February 2026: Deadline for ‘A New Approach to Strategic Planning: Discussion Paper’ or ‘The Sydney Plan’. Read FOKE’s Submission HERE
  
  

March 2026

• 11 March 2026: FOKE submission for 3 & 3a Beaconsfield Road, Lindfield – Amended HERE
• March 2026: FOKE Newsletter. Read HERE
• 29 March 2026: FOKE submission for 23-25 Lorne Avenue, Killara – Amended HERE
• 31 March 2026: Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion Steering Committee meeting
  
  

April 2026

• 3 April 2026: Sparke & Helmore Q& A 5-7 Middle Harbour Road, Lindfield SSD L&E Court decision
• 7 April 2026: Ku-ring-gai GeoRegion Steering Committee meeting
• 13 April 2026: FOKE Committee Meeting
• 21 April 2026: Henry Halloran Meeting – Planner in Residence – Wellbeing inPlanning
• 22 April 2026: FOKE Tour of TOD and LMR with Matt Cross MP and Chris Rath MLC Shadow Minister for Planning
  
  

May 2026

• 3 May 2026: FOKE Australian Heritage Festival Walk – ‘The Battles to Save Gordon Station’ Read more HERE
• 4 May 2026: FOKE meeting with Matt Cross MP
• 7 May 2026: FOKE attends NSW Heritage Curtilage Meeting
• 7 May 2026: FOKE meets with met with Ku-ring-gai residents facing Transport Oriented Development (TOD) State Significant Development (SSD) rezonings for 8- 10 storeys in their neighbourhood.
• 12 May 2026: FOKE meeting with Better Planning Network sub committee – doing Density Better
• 13 May 2026: FOKE & Roseville Cinemas Australian Heritage Festival Event: Film ‘H is for Hawk’
• 23 May 2026: East Gordon Community Meeting – Protect Our Heritage Houses & Gardens, 6 Glenview Street, Gordon
• 28 May 2026: FOKE AGM 2026

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August 2026