In Cowper Street and Wentworth Park Road the plan is to excise two sites from the St Phillips Heritage Conservation Area in order to change the existing height limit of 9 metres to 36 metres. This will allow the demolition of a 2 storey building and 4 1980s terrace houses and their replacement by two […]
Category: fight for Cowper St
Hands off Glebe Inc, a community public housing advocacy group, has condemned the Federal Budget as “heartless and shortsighted” for failing to fund an increase in social housing in the face of huge and growing unemployment and cuts to income support payments. Treasurer Frydenberg committed to an extension of the First Home Loan Deposit scheme […]
Media release 21 November 2019 Prince’s Trust Plan for Glebe Rejected With homelessness up 13% and the waiting list for public housing blown out to 60,000, Hands off Glebe Inc is appalled by an agreement between NSW Land and Housing Corporation and Prince’s Trust Australia to build 75 affordable, social and private homes over two […]
Submission re Cowper St 2016
D/2016/1109 Address 28 Cowper Street GLEBE NSW 2037, 8 Elger Street GLEBE NSW 2037 DA Submission on behalf of the Hands off Glebe Group Introduction: It is well known to the Council that we have opposed this development from the start believing it to be an expression of the Government’s and to some […]
Cowper Appeal letter to Hazzard