Leesha McKenny
Urban Affairs Reporter
Leesha McKenny is Urban Affairs Reporter for The Sydney Morning Herald
Golf courses in the crosshairs as Sydney councils seek space for sporting fields and parks
Another Sydney council is eyeing fairways as fair game in a bid to sate a growing demand for more sporting fields.
- by Leesha McKenny
EXCLUSIVE
Clover Moore to run for fourth term as Sydney's lord mayor
After more than a decade enacting her vision for Sydney, Clover Moore has her sights on a fourth term.
- by Leesha McKenny
Witnesses sought after attempted child abduction in Penrith
A quick-thinking mother has been forced to grab her child back from a woman who snatched a baby from a pram in Sydney's west.
- by Leesha McKenny
Auburn councillor Ronney Oueik fined $3600 for 'illegal' building works
Liberal politician on Auburn council built an apartment block with too many bedrooms.
- by Leesha McKenny
Sydney's green spaces to get squeezed as city's population swells
Sydney will need as many as 20 new ovals may be needed by 2036.
- by Leesha McKenny
Why the Planning Assessment Commission is likely to approve James Packer's Barangaroo tower
Only a bureaucrat, an architect and a planning consultant stand between James Packer and his plans for Barangaroo.
- by Leesha McKenny
Reject James Packer's casino tower: City of Sydney
James Packer's $1.5 billion tower should be knocked back, the City of Sydney Council's chief planner said on Thursday, arguing the private structure would "dominate and overwhelm" the long-held vision for the Barangaroo site.
- by Leesha McKenny
Woollahra Council draws a line in the Darling Point foreshore
A matter of 12 metres - and four long acrimonious years - separates some of Australia's wealthiest people.
- by Leesha McKenny
Labor hopefuls off and running for City of Sydney local government elections
The Labor Party has confirmed the community will have a say in the selection of its candidates for Sydney's Town Hall, but across other councils the picture is less clear.
- by Leesha McKenny
Marrickville's creativity to bloom amid floodplains and flight paths
As an A380 screeches overhead, a council spokesman spruiks the upside.
- by Leesha McKenny