Opinion | Lord Mayor criticised for attack on business

By John Church
Updated March 28 2018 - 6:56pm, first published 9:51am
NOT HELPFUL: "A council that goes to war with the business community is a council that is happy to work with one hand tied behind its back," the author says.
NOT HELPFUL: "A council that goes to war with the business community is a council that is happy to work with one hand tied behind its back," the author says.

In June last year the Herald reported on the ‘unprecedented’ billion-dollar construction boom changing the face of Newcastle. More than $900 million in private investment has followed the state government’s $650 million investment in the city’s revitalisation. And still it comes, with Newcastle City Council forecasting the value of development applications lodged in this financial year to again exceed $1 billion. Every dollar of those private DAs represents investment by business or work to be delivered by business.

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