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A true community councillor

February 18th, 2021 - Sean Car

When North West City News’s sister publication Docklands News ran Jamal Hakim’s image on the front page of its September 2020 edition ahead of last year’s City of Melbourne council elections, he really would have liked his chances!

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Losing yourself in history

February 18th, 2021 - Rhonda Dredge

The streets of North and West Melbourne are a treasure trove of history if you go looking in the right places and keep an open mind.

Babs is full of beans

February 18th, 2021 - Jack Alfonso

For Staffordshire bull-terrier Barbara, life is one big walk in the park – but preferably in North Melbourne’s own fully fenced off leash dog park, Clayton Reserve.

Kensington Rec Centre plans approved

February 18th, 2021 - Jess Carrascalao Heard

The Kensington Community Recreation Centre (KCRC) is one step closer to redevelopment, with the plans for the centre endorsed by the City of Melbourne’s Future Melbourne Committee (FMC) last December.

“We want them here”: pain over public housing loss lingers

February 18th, 2021 - Meg Hill

Late last year the Victorian Government announced it would invest more than $36 million to build a new vertical primary school on land being redeveloped as part of its Public Housing Renewal Program in North Melbourne.

West Melbourne planning delay “very frustrating”

February 18th, 2021 - David Schout

A new planning framework for West Melbourne remained awaiting state government approval in what one City of Melbourne councillor described as “unnecessary” and “very frustrating”.

Public housing residents take up health work

February 18th, 2021 - Meg Hill

Public housing residents who were placed under a much-criticised hard lockdown in July last year are working as health concierges to help keep their communities safe.

Macaulay’s planning rules need urgent work

February 18th, 2021 - Meg Hill

Macaulay, one of Melbourne’s urban renewal precincts, was planned to be developed into a mid-rise, walkable neighbourhood. Are loose planning controls putting that at risk?

Transition Town Kensington: Sustainability from the ground up

February 18th, 2021 - Jess Carrascalao Heard

In the shadow of the public housing tower at 56 Derby St, Kensington, a hot, summer northerly was ruffling the leaves of the Kensington Community Food Forest, nestled next to a kids’ playground at the back of the building.

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