In December 2023, the NSW Department of Planning and Environment released its “Explanation of Intended Effect” (EoE) for proposed low and mid-rise housing reforms, aiming to address the housing crisis by enabling increased residential development in urban areas near transports and town centres. The reforms will propose significant changes to house permissibility, development controls and landscape regulations with public exhibition concluding in February 2024.
The housing crisis is a major concern for many individuals with an extensive shortfall of dwellings. The EoE is attempting to address this by by supplying new housing in existing urban areas (known as “infill development”), to facilitate low and mid-rise housing “near established town centres, and in areas where there is good public transport”. The proposed reforms look to expand the permissibility and development controls for certain forms of residential developments. Notably, the proposed reform would expand the permissibility of residential developments by: [...]
