Sophie Scamps MP to push to include Pittwater on the National Heritage List
April 2025 Sophie Scamps MP, Member for the Federal seat of Mackellar, would like to work with the community to nominate Pittwater to the National Heritage List to protect and [...]
Careel Village shops to go
Council exhibited DA2024/1091 to demolish the Careel Village shops at North Avalon and replace them with a co-located 60-place child-care centre on top of a Dan Murphy’s retail liquor outlet! This outrageous [...]
Council Conservation Zone Review
Conservation Zones will form an integral part of the new Northern Beaches Council Local Environment Plan (LEP). APA made a submission regarding Council’s draft Conservation Zone review. NBC referred submissions to the [...]
NSW government housing changes
housing in the metropolitan Sydney area, including on the northern beaches. These changes were originally proposed to apply uniformly across these areas with no allowance for local differences. APA strongly opposed [...]
Modern architecture heritage study
The Council has received more than 100 community nominations of buildings from the Modernist period (ie post World War 2), that may be worthy of further investigation and possible heritage [...]
Avalon Customer Contact Centre
Many thanks to our members who emailed Councillors late in 2022 to ask them to oppose reducing hours from 5 dpw to 2 dpw. Our Vice President Dianne Ramsay spoke [...]
Geological heritage item in North Avalon
This recent use of bilious brown/orange sprayed concrete ('shotcrete') at a well-known and loved geological feature on the corner of Wanawong Road at north Avalon, to stabilise steep banks, is [...]
Barrenjoey Alliance for Arts and Culture (BAAC)
The Barrenjoey Alliance for Arts and Culture (BAAC) was formed as a Project of APA in 2017 to initially manage the Avalon Beach Cultural Map. The Map was used to [...]
Palm Beach Fish Shop site 1102 Barrenjoey Road
LATEST NEWS October 2025 The Land & Environment Court granted the developer's appeal; however the developer has now submitted a modification to the original DA. APA continues to oppose this [...]
Council’s Conservation Zone Review
Conservation Zones will form an integral part of the new Northern Beaches Council Local Environment Plan (LEP). APA made a submission regarding Council’s draft Conservation Zone review. NBC referred submissions [...]
Lizard Rock development saga
The Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council (MLALC) was granted land at Belrose, including a site known as Lizard Rock (Patyegarang). On 23 December 2022, the Sydney North Planning Panel approved [...]
Local character statements
NBC sent APA a confidential copy of its draft 2023 Local Character Statement, covering the whole of Pittwater. Our submission to NBC opposed that draft LCS as extremely limited and [...]
New pedestrian barrier for Barrenjoey Road?
NBC is proposing to install a long series of steel barriers along the sides and on the median strip on Barrenjoey Road in the strip between Central Road and the [...]
Cultural space for Avalon
BACKGROUND Through the Merger Savings Fund an allocation of $1 million was made in the NBC budget for 2017/2018 for the development of a new Creative Art (Cultural) Space in [...]