These blocks offer community living, well-designed interiors and level access – but the Nimbys say no.
In the past 30-odd years, writes Michael Koziol, the number of approvals for
Cynically, about half the councils in Sydney responded by changing their planning laws to ban them – hence the missing middle in suburbs that could probably use a few tastefully designed smaller blocks. One developer I spoke to told me he wasn’t interested in high-rise buildings that dominate the skylines. He favoured smaller blocks, notionally at the end of a street so that local families could expand into them.
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