#over development

You are on Aboriginal land. In the case of the Inner West, it's Gadigal Country. Earthworks just starting on an enormous new apartment building complex - 270 units spread over buildings up to 12 storey's high on what was mainly low-rise inter-war period light industrial factories and warehouses. Directly under absolute flight path, less than 3km from the end of the main runway at Sydney Airport. They'll need double glazed windows. Rampant over development. Marrickville.

Let’s hope this is the beginning of the end for the  Flamingo Land proposal

I can so relate to the plight of this little house  :-(

A.S. Harris Locksmith's is long gone, now a burnt out shell. Some bits of this date to the 1880's. No surprise the development application is for "alterations and additions to the existing buildings to create two semi-detached, two storey dwellings". 'Create' being the operative word. Marrickville.

Edwardian era relic. Been abandoned and squatted in for many years. Now isolated and with new apartments going up just down the road, ripe for the property speculator's wrecking ball. Stanmore.

Stairway to heaven or hell? Massive new apartment development, still being completed more than three years since being started, with Covid19 uncertainty. Sits on land once occupied by inter-war period light industry, warehousing, workshops and a large industrial timber yard that's all had the wrecking ball put through it. Overlooks Sydney's most polluted waterway, the Cooks River (which thankfully suffered only minor flooding during the recent catastrophic La Niña rain event on the Australian east coast. Tens of thousands of people remain homeless and in dire straits, amid the on-going flood relief effort. Whole towns upcountry will never be rebuilt, after being wiped out. It's not climate change, it's climate now). Canterbury.

Heritage nightmare. "Timothy Daniel's House c.1854". One of the very earliest Colonial houses still standing in the Inner West, albeit much altered. Built of brick and Sydney Sandstone, it was converted to flats at some stage a long while back, and cement rendered. The timber shingle roof might even be close to original. Due to its heritage listing it can't be demolished, so what do developers do? Ah, bright idea! Buy up all the land and knock up apartment buildings on both sides and out the back. The house itself appears unoccupied, unmaintained, and water damaged with a perspex fence out the front. WTF? Demolition by neglect? Canterbury.