Land and Environment Court
War of the lilly pillies: Mosman neighbours don’t hedge bets in tree row
Two north shore families called in silks to argue the finer points of law concerning an offending hedge - and whether the law should be applied in the present or past tense.
- by Carrie Fellner
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This mayor says he’s ‘more YIMBY than NIMBY’, but his council will sue the state over housing
Ku-ring-gai mayor Sam Ngai has come under fire from the planning minister for making a legal challenge to the state’s new laws.
- by Anthony Segaert
‘Throw the book at them’: Trees destroyed in Sydney harbour vandalism attack
Lane Cove Mayor Scott Bennison said the council believes it knows who was responsible for the illegal destruction of 300 trees and plants.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Megan Gorrey
Jean Nassif’s property development empire Toplace goes into administration
The decision will plunge thousands of apartment owners into uncertainty as they fight to repair their troubled buildings.
- by Carrie Fellner
Investigation
Crime
The buried gold, the crumbling fraud case and the billionaires’ tsunami
Sydney’s richest businessmen were on the hunt for a legendary cache of gold when things turned ugly.
- by Carrie Fellner
Opponents lament tree ‘massacre’ after Sydney’s ritziest golf club reno approved
Woollahra Council said it had garnered an additional 300 trees for the site in amended plans rubber-stamped in court on Thursday.
- by Michael Koziol
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Snowy Mountains
Ski resort paid out $233k over ‘unacceptable’ sewage pollution
Charlotte Pass resort has been fined for allowing millions of litres of improperly treated sewage effluent to flow into nearby waterways in Kosciuszko National Park.
- by Sarah Keoghan
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WestConnex
‘Completely unfair’: Family takes WestConnex acquisition to the High Court
The state government paid a family $1 million to relocate their business but, after a court ruling, it is trying to claw the money back.
- by Michael Koziol
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Wildlife
Crackdown on environmental crimes as prosecutions up threefold in five years
NSW Environment Minister James Griffin has called for an urgent meeting of the nation’s environment ministers given the “sobering reading” in the State of the Environment report.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Prize-winning high-rise faces wrecking ball after ‘administrative error’
Architects and heritage groups are calling on the NSW government to reinstate the heritage listing of the MLC Building, one of the city’s first high-rise office buildings.
- by Julie Power
Former Neighbours star in court battle with actual neighbour over obstructed views
A court has ruled that former actors and television presenters Lachlan and Karina Daddo can keep three palm trees at their northern beaches home, with the judgment describing their neighbours as having “an unusual sense of entitlement”.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons