I write in response to the public exhibition of the Inner West Draft Development Control Plan (DCP).
Urban Taskforce Australia appreciates efforts by councils to ensure that planning controls are up to date and appropriate. However, this draft DCP appears to raise the bar so high that housing supply is likely to be restricted within the LGA.
Anti-development development controls
Urban Taskforce contends that measures proposed in the draft DCP will make the delivery of housing more complicated and expensive, significantly undermining feasibility and making many local housing projects untenable.
In the midst of a housing supply crisis, with Inner West approving, to date, just over half the dwellings it needs under the pro-rate National Housing Accord targets, this DCP throws an array of restrictions, barriers, and costs at development that will hinder the delivery of new housing supply.
While we appreciate that Council is keen to deliver more affordable housing and to protect the character of the neighbourhood, Urban Taskforce believes that the proposals within the DCP are likely to prove to be counter-productive – preserving what should be renewed and denying the opportunity to deliver the accommodation needed – both market and affordable housing.
Urban Taskforce Australia believes that Council should be more pragmatic in setting its controls and look to use them to facilitate future development within the LGA.
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