A council spent more than a year battling Premier Chris Minns’ push for new housing development and has come up with an alternative plan, including 28-storey high-rises on Sydney’s leafy North Shore, that also eclipses the expectations imposed by government legislation.

Killara Station on the leafy north shore is earmarked for development.Credit: Jessica Hromas

Ku-ring-gai Council claimed its plan would create about 1569 more homes than the government’s Transport Oriented Development planning scheme, which sets a blanket planning rule of six-storey buildings within a 400-metre radius of railway stations. Ku-ring-gai’s plan is aimed at preventing developments in small residential streets and focusing them around town centres and allows for buildings as tall as 28 storeys around........

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