This mayor says he’s ‘more YIMBY than NIMBY’, but his council will sue over housing

Planning Minister Paul Scully has lashed a Sydney council over plans to sue the state government over its housing policy, accusing the council of wasting ratepayers’ money to stop housing.

Scully blasted the council – which he has previously accused of being the only one in Sydney to refuse to work with the government on its housing reforms – for the decision, accusing it of “wasting ratepayers’ money to try and stop housing in the middle of a housing crisis”. “If you look at the Roseville TOD precinct, for example, there’s only one park in the entire area, and that’s a small war memorial garden. So if you build 5000 new dwellings and say, ‘Hey kids, look, you don’t have a backyard, but we want you to play somewhere, so go to the small war memorial garden across the highway,’ that doesn’t really work.”

“And we destroy more parts of Sydney with the SEPP ,” he said. “The state government can destroy them with the SEPP, and that will alleviate issues for this year, but then there’s next year, so what happens?“The state government destroyed Gordon and Killara, and then in a couple of years’ time, destroys Wahroonga and Turramarra, Asquith, Putney. When does it end? Ponzi schemes are unsustainable.”

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