Liberal Party NSW
Connect with the NSW Liberals
  • Our Team
    • State Liberals
    • Meet Mark Speakman
    • Federal Liberals
    • Meet Peter Dutton
  • Our Party
    • Our Structure
    • Our Beliefs
    • Our History
    • Our Leaders
    • Join Our Party
    • Friends of the Liberal Party
    • Liberal Women's Council
    • NSW Young Liberals
  • News
    • State News
    • Federal News
  • Get Involved
  • Contact
  • Volunteer
  • Members' Login
Join Donate

Labor must not bulldoze local community concerns

15 May 2023
Share this
Related Articles

Shadow Minister for Planning and Public Spaces, Scott Farlow, has called on the Minns Labor Government to work with the community on planning and housing matters.

“So far we’ve seen the Labor Government tell communities to ‘get out of the way’, and a reluctance to stand up to Canberra, meaning vital infrastructure projects necessary for growing communities are under threat from Labor cuts,” Mr Farlow said.

“New South Wales needs to build more homes, but we need to ensure we bring communities with us on this journey, providing the necessary health, education and transport infrastructure while preserving public space and local amenity.”

“Minister Jackson said she is ‘very motivated to just push through’ with medium and high-density developments, which shows Labor aren’t prepared to hear the views and concerns of residents in communities right across NSW.”

“Labor’s plans to drop more development into Sydney, without addressing congestion, green space and other infrastructure needs, while ignoring genuine concerns and abandoning community consultation, is just wrong.”

Mr Farlow stressed the importance of infrastructure planning, service delivery and maintaining and enhancing public spaces as priorities in any new push to address housing supply.

“The Premier has ordered his ministers to urgently find vacant blocks of public land to rezone for housing. Given comment from his Housing Minister, telling communities to ‘get out of the way’, the government needs to be upfront with what land they’re targeting, and have a plan to address legitimate community concerns such as access to transport and services,” Mr Farlow said.

“It’s hard to plan for a growing city when you have a government hell bent on cancelling vital infrastructure projects, like the Sydney Metro.”

Related Articles: #Infrastructure

Minns’ money grab to drive clubs off public land

Minns’ money grab to drive clubs off public land

The Opposition has condemned the Minns Labor Government’s decision to hike rent on local community businesses, labelling it a shameful money grab that will endanger the viability of many loc...

28 September 2023

Broken promises for flood impacted communities

Broken promises for flood impacted communities

The NSW Opposition has called out an appalling broken promise in the Minns Government’s first budget which reveals at minimum a $300m gap in the funding provided to deliver vital road upgrad...

27 September 2023

Housing policies with vision

Housing policies with vision

In today’s Budget Reply the NSW Opposition Leader outlined practical housing policies that would make a real difference to tackling in NSW the Australia-wide housing crisis.

21 September 2023

Authorised by Chris Stone, Liberal Party of Australia, NSW Division, Level 2, 131 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000.

Donations by individuals to registered political parties of between $2 and $1,500 in a financial year are tax deductible. Phone: 02 8356 0300.

Privacy Policy

Liberal Party NSW