Wollongong council backflips on flood rezoning plan

Kate McIlwain
Updated July 13 2017 - 11:07am, first published 10:30am
Justin Craig found a clever way to travel near the corner of Swan and Evans streets in June 2016. Picture: Sylvia Liber.
Justin Craig found a clever way to travel near the corner of Swan and Evans streets in June 2016. Picture: Sylvia Liber.

Wollongong City Council has withdrawn its controversial suggestion that the flood prone parts of the southern CBD should be rezoned to prohibit most types of new development.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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