{"id":24848,"date":"2024-01-18T21:12:33","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T21:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=24848"},"modified":"2024-01-18T21:12:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T21:12:33","slug":"biggest-planning-reforms-in-a-generation-to-deliver-a-pipeline-of-housing-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/biggest-planning-reforms-in-a-generation-to-deliver-a-pipeline-of-housing-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest planning reforms in a generation to deliver a pipeline of housing supply"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today the reality of the challenge facing the NSW Government in tackling the housing crisis has been laid bare, further highlighting the significant need for the once in a generation planning reforms that the government introduced in December last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While these reforms will take time to effect significant housing uplift, these changes will deliver hundreds of thousands of well-located, well-designed and well-built homes close to transport, jobs, services and amenity over the coming years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All advice and industry feedback is that these reforms will have the major impact on housing uplift that our city and state so desperately needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NSW Labor Government has been clear that while building 75,000 new homes off a base of only 48,000 completions in 2022 will be a big challenge, the goal is to meet the states 377,000 housing goal over the 5 years of the accord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The NSW Government is determined to meet the state\u2019s housing goals under the 5 year housing accord, and it\u2019s the major announcements that the government made only weeks ago that will help get us there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These reforms include:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Changes to low to mid rise housing \u2013 with the aim to increase capacity for an additional 110,000 homes in well-serviced areas by the end of 2029.<\/li><li>Infrastructure contributions reforms \u2013 a program designed to ensure supporting infrastructure is aligned to housing delivery, so we don\u2019t end up with suburbs having no schools or sewage systems to support growing communities.<\/li><li>The Transport Oriented Development (TOD) program, the first of which will deliver state-led rezonings within 1,200 metres of 8 priority transport hubs. The second will deliver a new SEPP to increase the capacity for more mid-rise housing and mixed-use development within 400 metres of 31 other well-located transport hubs and town centres.<\/li><li>More affordable housing \u2013 the introduction of a new bonus Floor Space Ratio (FSR) of up to 30 per cent and a height bonus of up to 30 per cent where a proposal includes a minimum of 15 per cent of the gross floor area (GFA) as affordable housing.<\/li><li>Transparency \u2013 we&#8217;ve committed to publishing performance tables to identify best performing councils and to show the performance of government approval processes as well.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>NSW is the best state, in the best country in the world but it\u2019s getting harder for people to move here, to start a family, or start a business. Every step the NSW Government is taking is to help tackle this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Minister for Planning Paul Scully said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are reforming planning rules to support the delivery of thousands of new homes and a pipeline of housing supply into the future, and are determined to meet our housing goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s no supply, there\u2019s no homes for the next generation. The NSW Government is not going to turn their back on housing, it\u2019s a basic need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve inherited a confused and confusing planning system from the previous Liberal Government that has delivered the housing crisis that NSW residents are experiencing today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think most fair-minded people will recognise that our reforms are significant and need time to take effect. &nbsp;I think they also recognise that there are many factors that influence housing like interest rates, and access to finance and materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe NSW Government is starting from a long way back but has taken immediate action to turn around housing completions of the incredibly low base of only 48,000 homes delivered in 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the reality of the challenge facing the NSW Government in tackling the housing crisis has been laid bare, further highlighting the significant need for the once in a generation planning reforms that the government introduced in December last year. While these reforms will take time to effect significant housing uplift, these changes will deliver &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2024\/01\/18\/biggest-planning-reforms-in-a-generation-to-deliver-a-pipeline-of-housing-supply\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Biggest planning reforms in a generation to deliver a pipeline of housing supply&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24849,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24848\/revisions\/24849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}