The NSW Government has taken the next step towards what it says will facilitate faster housing delivery by releasing two key papers for public consultation to provide for streamlined low-rise housing development assessments. Consultation both papers (linked at the bottom…
Pattern Book Developments and CDCs
17 Jul, 2025
From 30 July 2025 a range of residential development will be able to be carried out as complying development, with a complying development certificate (CDC) to be issued within 10 days, if the development complies with the NSW Housing Pattern…
Low and Mid Rise Housing Policy Amendment to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021
3 Mar, 2025
As foreshadowed in our article on 23 February here, the State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) Amendment (Low and Mid Rise Housing) 2025 (Amending SEPP) commenced operation on Friday 28 February 2025 to give effect to the second stage of the…
ALERT: Second Stage of Low and Mid-Rise Housing Policy – Low and Mid-rise Housing Areas
23 Feb, 2025
The much anticipated low and mid-rise housing reform, the delivery of a second stage to the Low and Mid-Rise Housing Policy (Policy), is anticipated to commence on 28 February 2025. The reform is the second stage of the NSW Government’s…
The State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) Amendment (Dual Occupancies and Semi-detached Dwellings) 2024 (Amendment SEPP), which seeks to encourage development for the purposes of dual occupancies and semi-detached dwellings in Zone R2 R2 Low Density Residential, has been published. The…
UPDATED TRANSPORT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT MAPS
14 May, 2024
Further to previous posts regarding the TOD Provisions inserted into the Housing SEPP and issues with the mapping, the mapping now appears differently to how it did when first released. Instead of the maps showing a ‘transport oriented development area’…
The much discussed and controversial ‘Transport Oriented Development’ planning controls (TOD Provisions) have finally been published by way of the insertion of a new Chapter 5 into the State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021 (Housing SEPP) today. The TOD Provisions…
On 25 October 2022, in conjunction with the Federal Budget, the Federal Government announced the ‘National Housing Accord‘. The Accord represents a national initiative to address the supply and affordability of housing. The Government’s stated aim is ‘align for the…
A draft State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021 (Housing SEPP), together with a draft Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Housing) Regulation 2021 (Proposed Regulation) and draft Standard Instrument (Local Environmental Plans) Amendment (Miscellaneous) Order 2021 (Proposed Standard Instrument), has been released…