North Sydney council votes in favour of potential sale of public street to elite private school Shore

North Sydney council is considering selling a portion of public Edward Street to private school Shore. Photograph: Sardaka/Wikimedia Commons

Cash-strapped North Sydney council has unanimously passed a motion to investigate selling a public street to the private Sydney Church of England Grammar school, known as Shore.

Shore wants the council to sell part of Edward Street south of Lord Street in North Sydney. The school says it wants to improve traffic through a bottleneck area regularly used for drop-off and pick-up.