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Urban Taskforce Australia recognises the intent behind the proposal, namely to promote higher standards of liveability.
However, we are concerned that the approach being taken – to make such features mandatory – may not provide the flexibility needed to allow project to be viable and indeed, may put at risk development of housing in your LGA due to the potential damage to financial feasibility.
Urban Taskforce believes that a mix of encouragement and incentives would be more effective in delivering liveability and we call on Council to reconsider. Not every building requires all of the features specified in the DCP, but the proposed change does not give options to developers to deliver the facilities required by their homebuyers.