Councillors in Sydney’s inner west have been cheered and booed as they narrowly backed a controversial proposal to rezone a swath of established suburbs to make room for up to 30,000 extra homes over 15 years.

The Inner West Council, led by Labor Mayor Darcy Byrne, voted 8-7 to endorse its Fairer Future plan to increase housing density, but not before they adopted changes to boost the capacity for social and affordable dwellings.

Critics and supporters rallied at a public forum on the council’s Fairer Futures changes in Ashfield last week. Credit: Max Mason-Hubers

Amid heightened debate about more intensive development across Sydney, members of the public gallery chanted “scrap the plan” at an extraordinary hours-long meeting to debate the proposal on Tuesday night.

But Byrne urged

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