STEP is continually responding to relevant issues. These may be comments on plans of management for natural areas, the questioning of inappropriate development proposals, taking land managers to task for neglect or inappropriate management actions, and a myriad of other matters that seem to occur far too often. We list below some of the more important examples.
Bushland Tracks and Trails
STEP is of the view that there are many positive aspects to a system of well-planned and well-maintained tracks and trails in urban bushland read more...
F3 to M2 Link Proposal
In 2002 the RTA commissioned, on behalf of the Australian Government, a study to identify a route connecting the Western Sydney Orbital (M2/M7) to the F3, in Sydney's north, to relieve pressure on Pennant Hills Road and Pacific Highway read more...
Population Debate
Many media commentators and some environmentalists seem to believe that the population debate is all a dog-whistling exercise orchestrated by the bigoted and xenophobic. While there are of course some of those people around that is far from STEP’s position read more...
St Ives Showground
In early 2010 Ku-ring-gai Council placed the draft options for St Ives Showground and precinct lands on public exhibition read more...
Sydney Adventist Hospital Site
The Wahroonga Estate Concept Plan was approved by the NSW Minister of Planning on 31 March 2010. This approval brought to an end a saga that began in early-2007 read more...
UTS (Ku-ring-gai Campus)
For almost twenty years, STEP has been involved with the future and conservation of urban bushland at the University of Technology Sydney campus at Lindfield read more...
