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A true community councillor
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
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.
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Babs is full of beans
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.
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Kensington Rec Centre plans approved
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.
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“We want them here”: pain over public housing loss lingers
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.
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West Melbourne planning delay “very frustrating”
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”.
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Public housing residents take up health work
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.
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Macaulay’s planning rules need urgent work
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?
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Transition Town Kensington: Sustainability from the ground up
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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Four in five hospitality traders within the City of Melbourne said the emergence of outdoor dining has helped them reopen post-lockdown.
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“As big as it gets”: City of Melbourne clashes with State Government over Arden Precinct
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