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Inner West Council welcomes today’s release of the NSW Government’s housing targets and is getting on with a new Local Environmental Plan (LEP) that can deliver these dwellings.
The Government’s dwelling target of 7800 new homes in the Inner West over the next five years is achievable and can be delivered through Council’s local planning without the need for State Government rezonings to be imposed.
Council has already informed the Planning Minister Paul Scully that this Inner West LEP will be submitted to the Government by the end of the year.
Importantly, the Council has set a goal of 1000 new public housing dwellings to be included in the five-year target to ensure more homes for low- and middle-income families are available in the Inner West.
“We’ve been clear that the Inner West wants to take responsibility for addressing the housing supply crisis and we are capable of doing this at the local level,” Byrne said.
“Now that we have the NSW Government’s dwelling target, we will be able to respond soon to identify how that can be incorporated into our local planning controls.
“Unlike other Councils we have already committed to completing our new local housing plan to be submitted to the Government by Christmas.
“Importantly, our target of 1000 public housing dwellings will be incorporated into our plans. Addressing the housing affordability crisis requires not just increased densities, but significantly increased investment in new social and affordable housing as well.
“These new public housing dwellings can be achieved through the use of local Council and State Government owned land, including at the Bays Precinct and on Council carparks that have been offered to the Government already.
“We will also offer density incentives to faith-based charities to deliver new affordable housing on the vast array of properties that they own in the Inner West.”
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“Our streets will be turned into rabbit warrens, bottlenecks and frustrated drivers,” El-Hayek said in a statement.
In a draft submission, the Inner West Council has claimed that between 75 and 80 per cent of its local government area could be captured by the higher housing density reforms – a change, the council estimates, that could triple the number of homes built within its boundaries each year.
“This has major implications not only for the character and functionality of the inner west but also on infrastructure needed for these new communities,” the council argues.
Canterbury-Bankstown and Inner West councils criticised the government because the proposed changes to low and medium density housing would apply “blunt” one-size fits all rules to different areas, and said that existing detailed master planning for key suburbs would be undermined as a result.
They also complained that the government had not provided detailed maps of the areas captured by the transport-orientated development zones — which include a 400-metre radius around Canterbury, Wiley Park, Ashfield, Dulwich Hill and Marrickville and 1200 metres for the Bays Precinct — despite them being scheduled for rezonings from April.
Inner West Mayor Darcy Byrne said it was unclear how major rezonings such as in the Bays West precinct would affect other parts of the local government area.
“If you add up all the concentric circles of rezonings being proposed, it looks on paper like the whole of the inner west is getting rezoned, which is contrary to what the planning minister and premier have said,” he said.
“So you can understand why we’re confused and we won’t be the only council in that boat.”
The government argues the changes are necessary to turn around NSW’s lagging housing approvals as it seeks to address the crippling housing supply shortage.
In a statement, Planning Minister Paul Scully said that councils had “provided constructive feedback to suggest that there are multiple locations throughout their LGAs that may support increased housing” during consultations.
“We want to see the best outcome for existing communities alongside the additional housing that we desperately need. Where councils are willing to get on board with these conversations, the outcomes will be best for everyone,” he said.
Premier Chris Minns on Wednesday rejected claims that his government’s playing politics.
“If we were playing politics with this issue, we wouldn’t touch it,” he said.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/rabbit-warrens-and-bottlenecks-labor-councils-join-chorus-of-criticism-over-minns-housing-plan-20240207-p5f34z.html
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