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Developer Toohey MIller is leveraging the state government’s affordable housing to build a luxury apartment block opposite Victoria Barracks.

‘It’s Paddo, not Rio’: The cheap Sydney units being replaced by penthouses with rooftop pools

Fancy a lavish apartment with its own rooftop pool in Sydney’s eastern suburbs? The existing block of flats will need to be bulldozed first.

  • Megan Gorrey

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British charm at The Lord Dudley.

The Lord Dudley Hotel

An English pub serving hand-pumped ales and pot pies.

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No bulldozers and towers: Defence sites dominate talk of Sydney’s housing future

The state government says it is investigating potential options for the inner-city Victoria Barracks, but ruled out “huge apartment towers”.

  • Megan Gorrey and David Barwell
The view of East Sydney and the CBD from Monica.

Be a tourist in your own city and take in the stunning views from this rooftop bar

This fun, airy, light-filled 200-seat hotel rooftop bar blends inside and outside beautifully.

  • Myffy Rigby
Peter Mwandha and his wife Jade.

The Sydney suburbs where home buyers splashed the most cash last year

Prestigious locales topped Sydney’s leaderboard for total house spend last year, but one more affordable, family-friendly suburb made the list.

  • Alice Uribe
Hunters Hill Hotel would like to extend its trading to 2am.

These pubs want late-night trading. The locals aren’t so keen

Residents in one suburb object to the sound of car doors opening and closing.

  • David Barwell
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Paddo RSL was established in 1959.

Coogee Diggers boss cops serve from judge as club eyes Paddo RSL takeover

A proposed deal in which the Paddington institution would be turned over to the beachside club has divided the community in one of Sydney’s most elite suburbs.

  • Chris Barrett
An indicative artist’s impression of the proposed development at 160 Oxford Street, opposite Victoria Barracks, in Paddington.

Paddington residents fight plan to bulldoze ‘genuinely affordable’ units for luxury apartment block

The proposal to demolish 27 studio apartments to make way for an eight-storey residential building has angered residents in the eastern suburbs.

  • Megan Gorrey
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The hotel might be naff but there’s a lot to like about Mitch Orr’s new London-inspired venue

The menu leans Middle Eastern and Mediterranean yet still feels very Sydney at the Australian spin-off of The Palomar, the hotel restaurant at the new Olympia.

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Access the courtyard by taking an amble through the wine shop.

This cute bar lets you pick wine from the bottle shop and drink it on the spot

Wine bar L’Avant Cave is the sort of place you might find if you were wandering around the outer suburbs of Paris.

  • Myffy Rigby