September 26, 2026 — 5:00am

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For decades, towering cranes and large-scale construction sites have been a symbol of Sydney’s housing boom.

Now, that same building activity is spreading up and down the NSW coast, as Newcastle, Wollongong and the Central Coast record an unprecedented wave of high-density development driven by population growth, affordability pressures and NSW government planning reforms designed to boost density in areas previously restricted to low- and medium-rise housing.

The scale of the development is increasingly…

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