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Media Release: GREENS STRENGTHEN COUNCIL GAMBLING HARM MINIMISATION POLICY
At the Northern Beaches Council meeting on Tuesday 26 March 2024, Councillors resolved to adopt an updated Gambling Harm Minimisation Policy, with the key change proposed by staff to strengthen the recognition of gambling harm as a public health issue. Greens Councillor Cr Kristyn Glanville introduced two further additions, to strengthen the Council's commitments
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The Tawny Frogmouth: Don’t be trashy: reuse, repair and recycle instead
Did you know each person on the Northern Beaches generates on average 400 kilos of waste per year? Who hasn’t been frustrated to see waste clogging up our natural environment? Waste is a huge problem for Sydney, as we are projected to run out of landfill space within 10-15 years. While for a time we may be able to outsource the problem, sending Sydney’s waste to regional areas, or shipping plastic overseas, this is really just treating the problem as ‘out of sight and out of mind’.
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Northern Beaches Advocate: Councillor urges wasteful thinking
Northern Beaches Councillor Kristyn Glanville is urging people to think about waste. Cr Glanville (main image) visited The Hub Open Day at Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre, Kimbriki Road, Ingleside, on Saturday, 04 November, as part of the public engagement for Council’s Draft Waste and Circular Economy Strategy.
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Media Release: GREENS NEGOTIATE HOUSING AFFORDABILITY MOTION ON NORTHERN BEACHES
Greens Councillor Kristyn Glanville has successfully progressed Council action on housing affordability, negotiating with Councillors to achieve unanimous and bipartisan support for a motion on local housing affordability. "With 14,000 households on the Northern Beaches in rental or mortgage stress, and local businesses and services struggling to find key workers due to the cost of local housing, there is a pressing social and economic need to ensure that we are tackling this serious issue"
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Northern Beaches Advocate: Call for Airbnb clampdown
Council will call on the NSW Government to clamp down on short-term accommodation to ease the rental crisis. Greens Councillor Kristyn Glanville (main image) is hailing the motion passed by Northern Beaches Council at the June 2023 meeting as a ‘major step’ by Council towards tackling the housing affordability crisis.
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Northern Beaches Advocate: Call for compliance
Council is failing to reign in ‘cowboy’ developers, according to frustrated residents and a Northern Beaches Councillor. Greens Councillor Kristyn Glanville (main image), who is also an environment and planning lawyer, says Council’s compliance team are overwhelmed by complaints about developments approved by private certifiers, that allegedly do not adhere to development controls.
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