When the University of New South Wales appeared before a local planning panel on Tuesday to lobby for a proposed student housing development, the anger in the room was palpable.
The university was contesting a counter-proposal from Randwick Council in Sydney’s eastern suburbs to reduce a 1,066-room development, set on 20 and 23 storeys at the site of a campus carpark, to seven storeys, citing the unsuitable “height and bulk” of the building.
