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Housing Delivery Authority off and running!
Urban Taskforce Australia CEO, Tom Forrest, this afternoon welcomed the announcement of the deliberations of the first tranche of Housing Delivery Authority Expressions of interest.
The HDA, which is made up of the Secretary of the Premier’s Department, Simon Draper, the Secretary of Planning, Kiersten Fishburn, and the CEO of Infrastructure NSW, Tom Gellibrand, met for the first time on February 7th 2025.
The HDA considered 28 Expression of Interest against the published criteria.
Of the 28 applications considered, the HDA recommended the Minister Planning and Public Spaces that:
- 12 EOI applications be declared under the HDA SSD pathway and if successful, would see 6,855 new homes approved.
- 5 EOI applications are already SSD under an existing SSD assessment pathway, the HDA will monitor the progress of these applications.
- 8 EOI applications were not recommended to be called in as SSD.
- 3 EOI applications were deferred for further information and consideration.
There has been well over 100 EOI applications made already, representing over 100,000 new homes. This high demand has resulted in the frequency of meetings being doubled from monthly to every fortnight.
Urban Taskforce congratulates the State Significant Development team for their rapid assessment of this first stage of the new planning pathway. The publication of the details of each application is also very welcome. The transparency of this process is critical to ensuring the respect of the public and stakeholders.
The huge support for this new process highlights just how cumbersome the planning framework had become. Investors, financiers, developers and builders had been sitting on this massive number of development opportunities, just waiting for a planning system that could give them a chance.
The details of the applications (including successful, deferred, already in the SSD stream and unsuccessful) can be found by Clicking this link to DPHI
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The comments and analysis above can be attributed to Tom Forrest, CEO, Urban Taskforce.