Urban Living Network – All Editions

#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

#1 - BBQ stopping housing supply and affordability issue – the elephant in the room for the NSW State Budget

#2 - Building Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 - there are significant gaps in the legal framework - and more risk put onto developers and builders

#3 - Parramatta CBD Planning Proposal endorsed by Council

#4 - COVID-19 Development Construction Work Days Order - DPIE thanks Urban Taskforce for “practical feedback”

#5 - Bill to exclude developers from running for Local Government lingers in the NSW Parliament

#6 - Parliamentary Inquiry into the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Scheme

#7 - Barnaby Joyce returns as Deputy PM and Leader of the Nationals

#8 - Urban Taskforce on “Developmental – Property and the Mind”

#9 - Development Excellence Awards – Tickets now on sale

#10 - The Mill