Urban Living Network – All Editions

#1 - Is housing affordability crisis a “slogan”? ABS numbers suggest not

#2 - It’s not all bad news on Housing !

#3 - Urban Taskforce in Sourceable: The COVID Chickens are coming home to roost – is the Planning System up to the Challenge?

#4 - Why has the Infrastructure Contribution Bill Stalled ... and how did it come to this?

#5 - Directions paper for Camellia Rosehill released

#6 - Chris Johnson talks about “Mid-Rise Urban Living” on “Developmental – Property and the Mind” podcast

#1 - Prices keep going up, approvals are going down and the issue of housing affordability won’t go away

#2 - Federal Government report confirms developer contributions increasingly act like a tax on new housing

#3 - Infrastructure Australia releases the 2021 Australian Infrastructure Plan and sets a target for housing affordability

#4 - Urban Taskforce submission to the draft Housing SEPP – a policy that will result in less, not more, affordable and diverse housing supply

#1 - Success of the vaccination program in the construction industry - a template for other industries

#2 - Urban Taskforce makes a submission to GSC’s Industrial Lands Policy Review

#3 - Federal Inquiry into Housing Affordability and Supply commences – Planning Approvals will be under the spotlight

#4 - New Youth Employment Consortium to get 5,000 unemployed youth into work

#5 - New Commissioners appointed to the Greater Sydney Commission

#6 - Other things happening this week

#1 - Construction re-opening update

#2 - Housing in NSW – prices continue to escalate, approvals remain low and a draft Housing SEPP that won’t deliver new housing

#3 - Audit office reviews and reports on DPIE’s Fast Tracked Assessments Program

#4 - Other things happening this week

#1 - Construction Site Shutdown

#2 - Good news alert - Deicorp’s “Tallawong Village” approved

#3 - GSC’s “Next Steps for Greater Sydney” released

#4 - Phew - BTR SEPP will continue to apply in the City of Sydney

#5 - Shenanigans at Ku-ring-gai Council go mainstream

#6 - Other things happening this week

#7 - BREAKING NEWS - Frenchs Forest Place Strategy on Exhibition

#1 - Government pays Councils to trim assessment times

#2 - Infrastructure Contributions Bill

#3 - Snail’s pace reform in Minister’s Backyard: Northern Beaches LEP & DCP DISCUSSION PAPER on exhibition

#4 - Cl 4.6 and Desired Future Character Decision

#5 - Cream rises to the top (again) - Urban Taskforce members dominate major awards

#6 - Other things happening this week