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
This proposed shop top and apartment development would be completely incompatible with the required “seaside character” and would grossly breach the permitted height limit; it would completely overwhelm the adjoining [...]
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 has sent APA a confidential copy of its draft Local Character Statement, covering the whole of Pittwater. At this stage we are constrained from making specific comments; however as [...]
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 [...]
Netball courts for Avalon
In May 2019 NBC approved for public exhibition the proposal to instal four (4) hard surface and lit netball courts and one half-basketball court, to be located next to the [...]
RIP ‘Totally’ Tom Gilbert
Lifetime Avalon Beach resident Tom Gilbert passed away peacefully in NBH at 1.30 on the morning of 27 April 2020. ‘Totally’, as he was affectionately known, was a ‘man for [...]
Community Centre strategy
Council is preparing a strategy to "ensure the current and future use of its multipurpose facilities is sustainable. In particular, it will provide options and recommendations for the strategic provision [...]
DA 701 & 703 Barrenjoey Road (cnr. Kevin Ave.)
NBC has approved the construction of a four (4) unit Seniors Living development with basement parking for 7 cars, landscaping and strata subdivision at the corner of Kevin Avenue & [...]
Avalon Golf Course (‘Royal Av.’)
Avalon Golf Course ("Royal Av") on a hillside site in Avalon Beach, is a classic 9 hole public golf course, owned by Northern Beaches Council with its management leased out [...]
Avalon place plan
Council debated the draft Avalon Place Plan on the agenda to debate at its meeting on Tuesday 26 July 2022. The draft Plan retains many of the features that APA [...]
Alfonso’s Cafe
APA has learnt that Alfonsos Cafe in Elvina Avenue has apparently received a notice from Northern Beaches Council to shut down its engaging ‘Pizza and Music' nights (Friday/Saturday/Sunday nights). If you haven’t [...]