Sylvia Hale Campaigns
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Planning and Communities
Successive NSW Planning Ministers have given themselves greater powers to overide local councils and communities and have imposed big new residential and industrial developments on us, regardless of their impact on the environment or our neighbourhoods.
Keep Prisons Public
The Greens believe that introducing the profit motive into the prisons system is not in the interests of prison officers, prisoners or the rest of the community.
Local Control Over Development
Local Government should be local, accountable and democratic. It should be the place where decisions are made about developments to ensure they are in the communities’ interest. Sylvia is campaigning to keep decision-making about developments with the community.
Housing & Homelessness
The Greens believe that adequate, safe, secure and affordable housing is a basic requirement for living a decent life and a fundamental right for all people. Sylvia has pursued the Greens goal of providing everyone with a proper standard of housing through campaigning for affordable housing in new developments, calling for improved provision of social housing and fighting for the rights of tenants of residential parks and public housing.
Communities Fighting Overdevelopment
Across NSW, communities are feeling the pinch as developers donate millions of dollars each year to the governing party and ride roughshod over the interests of communities. Sylvia is working in parliament and with communities across NSW for sustainable development.
Save the ADI site
The NSW Government and the Federal Government are equally guilty in the destruction of the precious ADI site at St Marys, as both had to sign the agreement to sell the land to developer Lend Lease. The State Government subsequently provided permission to cull the kangaroos and emus, and bulldoze critically endangered Cumberland Plain Bushland.
Mobile Phone Towers and you
We have developed a kit to help residents campaign against illegal or unwanted mobile phone towers. A loophole in federal law means that carriers do not need to seek council approval before installing a phone tower that is deemed to be ‘low visual impact’, and ignores health and other impacts. The Greens are campaigning to amend the federal Telecommunications Act which exempts mobile phone carriers from seeking planning approval.
Protecting our Heritage
Heritage is not just about old buildings. It is about the natural, cultural and built treasures that have made and continue to make a unique contribution to defining who we are and where and how we live. These unique treasures have been handed to us by previous generations in safekeeping for future generations.
The NSW Greens Bad Developer Awards
The Bad Developer Awards are our opportunity each year to give some dreadful developers and their developments the brickbats they deserve, and to acknowledge those who are doing their best to make NSW a better designed and more environmentally sustainable place to live.
2010 Juanita Nielsen Memorial lecture
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