The lucky group enjoying fewer constraints under COVID: developers

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Published: Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:20

While we’ve all been isolated, working from home, taking leave or whatever, it’s been better than business as usual for development and construction. There have been a few positive effects from the pandemic, reduced traffic, no one much getting traditional flu because of social distancing, clear skies, clean water and even a chance to meet our Paris emissions targets.

But proposals by the NSW Government to ease restrictions on construction on weekends and development restrictions won’t be one of those positive effects.

Here is a link to an opinion piece by the inestimable Elizabeth Farrelly in the SMH on 25 April 2020. No one ever says it better.