Wollongong City Council gets ready to buy a house - and destroy it

Glen Humphries
May 21 2019 - 11:30am
Knock-down: Wollongong City Council is considering buying this house in Figtree - and then demolishing it. Picture: Adam McLean.
Knock-down: Wollongong City Council is considering buying this house in Figtree - and then demolishing it. Picture: Adam McLean.

Wollongong City Council is planning to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a Figtree house - just so it can be knocked down.

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Glen Humphries

Glen Humphries

Senior journalist

I'm an award-winning senior journalist with the Illawarra Mercury and have well over two decades' worth of experience in newspapers. I cover the three local councils in the Illawarra for the Mercury, state and federal politics, as well as writing for the TV guide. If I'm not writing, I'm reading.

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