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Residents claim 'negligence' as asbestos left on vacant Sydney lot for months

Earlwood resident Lydia Feng says the failure to remove asbestos from her street for several months amounts to government negligence. (ABC News: Harriet Tatham)

New South Wales' health and safety regulator is "making enquiries" after sheets containing hazardous asbestos were left lying, uncovered and accessible to the public on a government-owned Sydney lot for months.

The state Department of Planning and Environment manages the land on Unwin Street, Earlwood, in the city's inner west, where locals are claiming government "negligence".

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