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FlatChatFan
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    If you live in NSW, lots of luck!  No matter how many people complain the developers just go to the Land and Envionment Board and it gets through any way.  You would need thousands of individuals complaining and as some recent developments in Sydney show, developers “rule”.

    Local councils seem to be influenced by numbers, so the more individual residents who complain the better.

    In my suburb there were a group who were very involved in door knocking, petitioning, and attending council meetings to protest a part residential and retail development that was out of character for the area, and not needed.  It will create extra traffic in a small lane going past a pre-school kindergarten entrance.  The lane is already being used as a 'rat run' by cars as there are only two roads that allow a right hand turn onto the main road going through the suburb.

    All the protests only delayed the inevitable for about six years.  The original developers sold out, but it still went ahead and the heavy machines have moved in.