May 2025

AGM 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) SSD-79261463, CPDM P/L HERE
  
• 28 May 2025: 2-8 Highgate Road Lindfield (84 apartments) SSD-78493518, CPDM P/L HERE. See FOKE Submission HERE
  
• May 2025 Ku-ring-gai receives some of the heaviest rain in Sydney in May 2025 causing signficant flash flooding. Ku-ring-gai Council has been inundated with calls for help and has responded with advice to residents on how to respond to flash flooding. fallen trees and power outages HERE.|
  
  19-24 May 2025: Sydney has recorded torrential rainfall (more than 100 millimetres of rain over the past 24 hours) causing severe train disruption. The heaviest rainfall occurred at Wahroonga.
  
  23 May 2025: The North Shore Train Line has closed due to flooding on the tracks between Central and Town Hall Stations. See HERE
  
  Extremely heavy rainfall has led to flash flooding from overflowing drainage systems – nature strips, footpaths, roads – overwhelmed by the intensity of rain falling. This has also led to potentially life threatening situations, such as fallen trees and branches.  Power lines have fallen leading to power outages and traffic chaos.
  
• 26 May 2025: Woollhara Councillor Merrill Witt tabled a Notice of Motion regarding the State Significant Developments Applications in Woollhara Council area.
  
• 28 May 2025: 21-27 Roseville Avenue and 16-24 Lord Street, Roseville (SSD-78996460). 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 2025. 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 Ku-ring-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
  
• 23 June 2025: SSD 9-21 Beaconsfield Road Lindfield  
  
• 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

• 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
  
• 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 Representatives
  
• 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.
  
• 11 August 2025: FOKE Committee Meeting
  
• 14 August 2025: Deadline for 1-5 Nelson Rad, Lindfield (167 apartments) SSD 82899468
  
• 14 August 2025: Deadline for 11-19 Middle Harbour Road, Lindfield (173 apartments) SSD 82900461
  
• 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 Ku-ring-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.
  
• 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

October 2025

• 13 October 2025: FOKE 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

November 2025

• 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. 
  
• 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
  
• 26 November 2025: FOKE attends celebration for the centenary of Joseph Maiden’s death (1896-1925)
  
• 27 November 2025: Submission deadline for NSW biodiversity credits market. Read FOKE’s submission HERE

December 2025

• 8 December 2025: FOKE Committee Meeting
  
• 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 more 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

• 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.
  
• 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 SSD-88948458 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

• March 2026: FOKE Newsletter. Read HERE

April 2026

May 2026

•  3 May 2026: FOKE Australian Heritage Festival Walk – ‘The Battles to Save Gordon Station’. Read more HERE
  
• 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.
  
• 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