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Barangaroo "will dominate our skyline and shape our most significant public space for decades to come. It is funded by one of our richest citizens and occupies public land. For it to be anything other than absorbingly lovely, enchanting to explore and ultra-green is simply a disgrace."

At one level, this is a community story about a development application for a childcare centre on Crown land in the inner-Sydney suburb of Paddington. On another, it's a story about how state authorities and corporate regulators failed residents and local councillors who struggled to hold politicians, developers and public servants accountable for dealings with publicly owned open space.