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Camden needs a residential heritage-style guide

Camden Needs A Residential Heritage Style Guide to provide assistance to home owners to conserve and restore their historic cottages.

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Do or Die! Heritage and urban planning in the burbs

There is a loss of Edwardian farming heritage on the urban-rural interface on Sydney’s edge. There is a distinct lack appreciation amongst many contemporaries of simple robust country farm cottages.

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Trust deficit opens up on town centre strategy

Preliminary Findings Camden Town Strategy Community Consultative Process A trust deficit has opened up between Camden Council and stakeholders in the Camden Town Centre Enhancement Strategy. It threatens to re-shape Camden’s sense of place and community identity, according to preliminary research conducted by UOW academic Dr Ian Willis. Stakeholder cynicism has developed for some around… Continue reading Trust deficit opens up on town centre strategy

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The Camden decked carpark that will not die

Camden decked carpark proposal Camden Council recently resolved to investigate and design a decked carpark in Oxley Street as part of the Camden Town Centre Enhancement Strategy (2014). This is not the first time that the council has considered a decked carpark. The first investigation of a decked carpark dates from 1996.  A later proposal in… Continue reading The Camden decked carpark that will not die

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Democracy, Place and Local Government

Local politics is a special beast and is particular, local, small fare and accessible. It is parish pump politics at its best.