I write in relation to the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal’s (IPART’s) review of the developer charges and recycled water prices for metropolitan water businesses.
We provide the following comments on the Issues Paper and the questions posed by IPART within the Paper.
Guiding principles for setting developer charges
Urban Taskforce Australia is concerned that IPART does not fully appreciate the link between contribution plans and developer feasibility and the delivery of new housing supply.
In the Issues Paper under section 2.2 “What are our guiding principles for setting developer charges?”, not one principle relates to ensuring that charges do not impact on the feasible supply of new housing. In the current context of this being a major policy concern, with state and federal leaders calling the current situation a housing supply crisis, we are concerned that IPART has not reflected this imperative in its “guiding principles”.
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