THE state government is moving to bypass councils and rezone sites nominated by developers as suitable for tens of thousands of new houses in a radical attempt to increase home building in Sydney.
With Sydney building barely two-thirds of the 25,000 homes needed each year, the government has invited land owners to nominate land suitable for housing and has established a committee, run by the Premier’s Department, to assess 43 proposals from developers.
A schedule of ”land owner nominated sites”, published on the Planning Department’s website, identifies more than 12,000 hectares of property, mainly on Sydney’s fringe, enough land for more than 100,000 homes.
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Source: SMH
About time we saw some action. Although taking the matter out of local government hands should only be a first step. To improve efficiency in the development industry the government needs to remove the control freaks from the department of planning and the green nazis from the several environment departments that grew exponentially under the previous government.
Richard, they can talk all they want… Let’s hope some action comes out of all this.