A new housing authority bypassing local councils will start taking applications from developers within weeks and could shave a year off assessment times.
The state government has approved a 43-storey apartment building on the Pacific Highway. On the other side of the road,a fight has forced the government’s hand.
Planning Minister Paul Scully accused the council of wasting ratepayers’ money to stop development in the middle of a housing crisis.
“We had a joke in the office that wouldn’t it be amazing if the first[one] was in Ku-ring-gai LGA,and it was,” Planning Department deputy secretary Monica Gibson told a developers’ conference last week.
As the dust settles on a fierce political fight over the Blayney gold mine,Regis Resources has asked the Minns government for an expedited and unprecedented planning pathway.
The hunt is on for new ideas for low- to mid-rise housing in NSW,and these young architects and students know what they want for the future.
The state government says it has a mandate for change on new housing. At local level,Saturday’s candidates up for election are uneasy about it.
Planning Minister Paul Scully wants to slash onerous and “absurd” conditions of consent that imperil construction and slow the delivery of new homes in NSW.
One of the most senior Labor figures in western Sydney has intervened against the state government’s plan for higher density.
An alliance of business groups,unions and universities says the housing “sausage grinder” is not working quick enough,but the appointment of such a tsar could fix that.
The government has been urged to resuscitate a long-lost railway line from Port Kembla to south-west Sydney or risk wasting the potential of the city’s new airport.