Better Planning Network

Calling for a visionary & robust planning system that protects the environment, our heritage & the public interest.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

I love this triple-decker triplex.

The US should really do a similar design catalog to help local developers build more housing.

[John Dory @johndory1914]

“Parks are not just for recreation; they are for rejuvenation and renewal”

- Frederick Law Olmsted

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

@Hrymrrr The elevator requirement is a good reason not to go above four stories. You can still achieve great density with four story buildings, if you go wall to wall around the entire block.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

Rather than a single entry that leads to double-loaded corridors, courtyard blocks stack units around central staircases that serve no more than ten households each.

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

single-stair 4-6 story buildings are key to creating condominium housing (with relative privacy, potential for yard access, and dual aspect units) that middle class families will prefer to detached SFH.

[Better Planning Network @BettPlanNetwork]

@BicycleAdagio Looks like a full house.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

This 1.35-acre parking lot in Jersey City was sold for $54 MILLION (10 times its assessed value) and will become 603 rental units. And you all wonder why I absolutely despise surface parking lots in major cities—it's just land banking and a heavily subsidized land use.

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Recessed balconies are *just better*

69 apartments in Paris, by Itar Architectures

[Coby @Cobylefko]

A city may be called great when the unity of its average buildings and streets would be regarded as landmarks nearly anywhere else.

[Better Planning Network @BettPlanNetwork]

And in Ireland…

[TonightVMTV @TonightVMTV]

"I'm not saying that this is the panacea or solution to our housing crisis."

John Cummins, Minister of State for Local Government and Planning, defends his proposal for garden cabins be exempt from planning laws to ease the housing crisis.

#TonightVMTV

[Paul Scully @scullyp]

2023 Mayor heralds expansion of ULEZ saying results won't be clear for decades. 2025 he says everything is lovely backed up by the same scientists he paid to justify the expansion in the first place and tried to influence their findings at the time -https://t.co/2HDIhXYQdW

[💧Jo Evans @jo_noCSG]

Despite a decade+ of opposition Santos are today drilling a huge coal seam gas corehole in the middle of the #Pilliga on private property. The pad has seen gradual changes over the last week Lot 1, DP 757126

#CSG #AUSpol Sentinel image 04/03/25

[Better Planning Network @BettPlanNetwork]

Biodiversity offsets under the spotlight in #Narrabri. Our member group Wando Conservation Centre organised this important conference.

[NWPA @NWPAdvocacy]

The @WandoInc #Biodiversity Offsets Conference is underway at #Narrabri - so far this morning we have heard from Brendan Sydes @AusConservation @SueHigginson_ & Kristy Ruddock @EDOLawyers on the problems & consequences of offsets.

[Wando Conservation & Cultural Centre Inc @WandoInc]

Threatened species Ecologist Maria Matthes will be visiting Narrabri 22 Feb to talk about the way our planning system is failing #koalas. Coal mines already wiped out the #koala in Leard Forest. Evidence of habitation now absent since 2017.@talkingkoala @naturensw @nswdphi

[Lock the Gate @LockTheGate]

Yancoal wants to expand its Moolarben coal mine and clear habitat that's home to a climate change-resilient breeding colony of endangered koalas.

The NSW Minns Government must reject this destructive mine.

It must prioritise koalas over coal.

https://t.co/mzHKP6CEf9

[Wando Conservation & Cultural Centre Inc @WandoInc]

Easy to book. Note: attendance at the film is free, $35 to attend the BIODIVERSITY OFFSETS CONFERENCE on Saturday the following day.
https://t.co/8yr42hjYOK?

[Wando Conservation & Cultural Centre Inc @WandoInc]

10 years since the destruction of Leard Forest started, a special screening of Dujon Pereira’s feature length documentary BLACK HOLE is on Fri. 21 Feb at Crossing Theatre,Narrabri. Free entry. 0494183525 for info.
#BlackHole #Gomeroi #Gamilaaray #BlakTwitter #biodiversityoffsets

[Knitting Nannas and Friends - Sydney @knitnannasSYD]

Did you know that mining companies can now buy biodiversity offsets to offset their offsets?

The market-based tool intended to compensate for minings impact on nature leaves the wolf in charge of the hen house but don’t take our word for it 👀 for yourself ⬇️.

[Wando Conservation & Cultural Centre Inc @WandoInc]

Biodiversity Offsets: problems and consequences
Conference 22nd February 2025 at Narrabri’s Crossing Theatre. Details here.
Explore Narrabri Region https://t.co/7SSIaKQxoP

[Georgina Siri 🐨🦘 @gteasts]

@SustPopAus Australia should have stabilised its population over a decade ago. The Greens once supported stabilising our population at 22 million. What happened to them?