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25/09/2025

If you missed TheSydneyist tonight on Eastside Radio 89.7FM with Government Architect Abbie Galvin talking about NSW Pattern Books it’s now available as a podcast that you can stream on demand here:


https://eastsidefm.org/episodes/1758787200/


ABBIE GALVIN: RIGHT OF REPLY The new NSW Housing Pattern Book is the brainchild of Government Architect Abbie Galvin. Tonight she returns to THE SYDNEYIST to answer criticisms that the patterns are less sustainable, affordable and scalable than was promised.

The Sydneyist
6pm Thursday
Eastside Radio 89.7FM or eastsidefm.org

25/09/2025

With half a million visits to the site and 15,000 pattern downloads!

You can buy your own house pattern for $1!

The NSW Housing Pattern Book is a guide for developing more sustainable and affordable low- and mid-rise homes to support the state’s growing population.

25/09/2025

We are LIVE in Studio C with Government Architect Abbie Galvin taking about the NSW Pattern Book

Listen here :

https://eastsidefm.org/episodes/1758787200/

18/09/2025

If you missed TheSydneyist tonight on Eastside Radio 89.7FM with landscape architect and street-garden-planter Patrick Franklyn it’s now available as a podcast that you can stream on demand here:

https://eastsidefm.org/episodes/1758182400/

STREET GARDENING AS SHARED PURPOSE
How can it enrich your life?

Patrick Franklyn is a landscape architect and academic who spends his spare moments planting what he calls the ‘paddocks’ of his Tamarama street.
Trees, herbs, vegetables feed the locals but also create biodiversity corridors through out our city,
supporting everything from owls to insects.

How to get started? What to do first?

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT PATRICK FRANKLYN
will share his passion for gardening as shared purpose.
THE SYDNEYIST

6pm Thursday
Eastside Radio 89.7FM or eastsidefm.org

17/09/2025

There are calls to ban artificial grass from being used in Australia.

17/09/2025

This week on The Sydneyist:

STREET GARDENING AS SHARED PURPOSE
How can it enrich your life?

Patrick Franklyn

is a landscape architect and academic who spends his spare moments

planting what he calls the ‘paddocks’ of his Tamarama street.

Trees, herbs, vegetables feed the locals but also create

biodiversity corridors through

out our city,

supporting everything from owls to insects.

How to get started? What to do first?

This Thursday

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

PATRICK FRANKLYN

will share his passion for gardening as shared purpose.

LISTEN UP, LISTEN IN!

THE SYDNEYIST

6pm Thursday 18th September 2025

Eastside Radio 89.7FM or eastsidefm.org

11/09/2025

If you missed TheSydneyist tonight on Eastside Radio 89.7FM with architect John Cockings it’s now available as a podcast that you can stream on demand here:

https://eastsidefm.org/episodes/1757577600/

SCOTS’ COLLEGE’S NEW BARONIAL CASTLE

The new Scottish baronial castle in Bellevue Hill may look like a Hogwarts dreaming but is a very real student centre for The Scots College. Despite – or because of – its very traditional style, the building has generated some controversy. John Cockings, its architect, is a modernist, yet he comfortably designed this buiding he joins Elizabeth Farrelly to talk about the place of historical styles in contemporary architecture.

11/09/2025

We are live in Studio C with architect John Cockings talking about Sydney’s Scots Baronial Castle

05/09/2025

Friends and neighbours,
Thank you for all your messages and enquiries in recent days alerting us to the current core drilling activities on the Meriton site in Little Bay.

At this point, all we know is that these sorts of works are usually carried out to collect data and prepare a report on the suitability of the underground for deep excavation (e.g. to accommodate basement parking). Such reports are normally obtained in preparation of a planning proposal / DA application.

To our knowledge, Meriton has not yet lodged anything with the authorities, but it does seem as if they are working on something - the details and scale of we unfortunately don’t know at this point.

We are asking questions and are trying to learn more. Important that we all stay vigilant.

05/09/2025

At first glance, driving through the new estates on Melbourne's western fringe, the houses look ordinary.