Willoughby City
A six-month update on the progress of Willoughby Council’s Delivery Program 2017-21, during the 2020/21 financial year shows that despite the disruption of the pandemic, Council has delivered or is well on track to deliver intended projects, works and business improvements for the benefit of the community.
Highlights of the report, presented to Council at its meeting on Monday 2 August include:
Projects and Capital Works – all major Council activities with allocated funding and defined start and end dates. At the end of the 2020/21 financial year, 99% of Council’s projects and capital works projects were completed or delivered as planned, exceeding the overall target of 85%. Key successes include:
A pair of rare owls have singlehandedly slammed the brakes on plans for a multimillion-dollar redevelopment of a Sydney high school.
Construction plans for a $153 million facelift of Chatswood High School in Sydney s lower North Shore were sent back to the drawing board after concerns were raised of the impact on two threatened owls.
The Education Department pledged to preserve the large Angophora Costata tree, the chosen nesting ground of the powerful owls - a breed of the nocturnal birds.
A pair of rare Powerful Owls have singlehandedly slammed the brakes on plans for a multimillion redevelopment of Chatswood High School (pictured)
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Billionaire fund manager Kerr Neilson has cashed in on Sydney’s booming housing market, selling a modernist residence in Castlecrag for in excess of $2.4 million more than he paid for it just two years ago.
The co-founder of Platinum Asset Management outbid eight other registered buyers at what was a competitive auction in May 2019 to secure it for $5.3 million.
This month, interested parties were alerted to its return to the market through the same agent who sold it last time, Anthony Cowie of Ray White Lower North Shore, and sources say it sold for about $8 million.
The property was sold in the mid-1960s to retired surgeon Frank Fisher and his wife, Penelope.
Lunar New Year not part of âthis countryâs traditionsâ: western Sydney mayor
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Lunar New Year celebrations across Sydney will be muted this year, as local councils blame COVID-19 restrictions for their decision to scale back or cancel festivities to welcome the Year of the Ox.
Major outdoor events to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which falls on February 12, in suburbs such as Cabramatta, Eastwood, Parramatta and Chatswood have been cancelled in favour of smaller festivities.
Lanterns light up Dixon Street in Chinatown for Lunar New Year.