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Another major planning row is brewing in Strathfield after residents discovered two 32-storey towers are to be built in Homebush from letters which gave them less than three weeks to respond.

The development application from Oretone Pty Ltd also proposes a third 20-storey tower, a car park for 780 vehicles over six levels, a total of 660 apartments and 728sqm of retail and commercial space.

The Homebush Community Bank Branch of Bendigo Bank celebrated its 10th birthday over the weekend.

Residents, local business owners, board members, directors and staff turned up to reminisce about the banks’ first days and what the Bendigo Bank means to Homebush.

Homebush Uniting Church will hold a junior youth group for youngsters aged 10 to 16 on the first Friday of every month from 6.30pm to 7.30pm.

The first meeting will be a sausage sizzle on May 4 to discuss what actitivies teenagers would like to take part in.

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A 23-year old man had his phone and cash stolen while he was sitting in his car on Alviston Street in Strathfield.

At around 1am on Saturday 10 March, three people in a small blue coloured old hatchback stopped beside the victim.

A man got out of the hatchback and threatened the victim with an unknown weapon.

The offender stole the victim’s belongings and jumped back into the hatchback and the car was last seen driving south on Homebush Road.

By Peter Lynch

The homebush branch of the Bendigo Bank has a new team at the top, fresh finance from its franchise owners and a mission to embrace local business and the community.

The company also announced its first annual profit at its Annual General Meeting and, according to a company statement, continues to trade profitably on a monthly basis.

Strathfield’s best and brightest received their HSC results this week – and many of our top schools were represented in the all round achievers’ list for 2011.

Girls scored particularly well, receiving two thirds of the first-in-course positions. The split between public school and private school students was about 50-50, according to Board of Studies president Tom Alegounarias.

Boys, however, topped the table in highest tertiary rankings - of the 49 who achieved 99.95 , 30 were boys.

As reported in the Sydney Morning Herald, SilexSolar, Australia’s only solar panel manufacturer closed its Homebush Bay manufacturing facility earlier this week after being decimated by Chinese imports, the high Australian dollar and lack of support from state and federal governments.

The closure comes only months after the company stopped manufacturing solar cells in-house, and sourced them from its Chinese partner, Hareon, with a loss of 30 jobs.

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Police are appealing for witnesses after a crash at Homebush Bay, which has left a pedestrian seriously injured yesterday morning.

The pedestrian, a Korean National, was hit by a Mitsubishi Magna while crossing at the on-ramp to Homebush Bay Drive at Homebush Bay.

He suffered extensive head injuries and was taken to Westmead Hospital where he remains in intensive care.

A 61-year-old female driver of the sedan was taken for mandatory blood tests.

In response to the growing demand for out-of-school care in the municipality, the YMCA has set up a new centre at Homebush West Public School – and has 50 available places.

Last month, the Scenereported Strathfield was suffering from an acute shortage of well-priced out-of-school care. This new centre, which is open to all local children, was opened precisely to alleviate the growing problem.

A sharp rise in theft from Strathfield shops has rekindled urgent calls for better policing in the area – and officers suggest the M4 provides a convenient getaway route for the bandits.

An investigation by the Scenehas uncovered a worrying increase in attacks on shopkeepers in the municipality, with police acknowledging the area’s proximity to the M4 is partly to blame. The motorway provides the ideal escape route for criminals, and it’s believed gangs choose targets that lie close to major freeways.

Police are on the lookout for three men who stole $250,000 worth of Toshiba laptops and computers from a warehouse in Homebush this morning.

At around 3am, the three men were seen driving three cars into the rear entrance of the industrial warehouse on Parramatta Road where they stole 100 Toshiba computers and laptops.

A maroon-coloured van, a black Mercedes sedan and a dark-coloured Subaru wagon was seen driving away from the crime scene and the empty van was found an hour later abandoned and burnt out in Silverwater.