What's New
20 November 2012
The current legislation requires a unanimous vote by owners in favour of any redevelopment of the building, which in most cases is extremely unlikely and empowers individual owners to an unreasonable extent compared to the interests of the rest of the owners in the scheme.
24 February 2012
The Urban Taskforce has taken the review of SEPP 65 and the Residential Flat Design Code as an
opportunity to look at the importance of this building type to accommodating a significant proportion
of the states population growth over the next 25 years. This is particularly so in metropolitan Sydney
where around 500,000 new apartments will be required by 2036.
5 October 2011
There needs to be an anti-NIMBY provision. Narrowing of state significant development categories is not appropriate. Rail corridor should be defined. There is an absence of transitional provisions for existing applications before the joint regional planning panels. There are problems with the provision related to staged development and joint regional planning panels.
26 September 2011
An appeal right for rezoning applicants is a key interim reform strongly sought by industry. An applicant should be entitled to make, and have determined, a development application (including a ˜concept staged development application) even if the development is prohibited by a statutory plan.
26 September 2011
A under the current policy settings, it seems more likely that the Standard Instrument will be used to entrench the micro-regulation of land use across NSW. This was never the original intention of the Standard Instrument process.
20 September 2011
Mandatory disclosure will not necessarily influence purchase and/or rent decisions.
11 August 2011
Land use planning failures are risking the Lower Hunters future as NSWs economic power house. If things keep going as they are, the Lower Hunters future growth will look more like Launcestons instead of an economic success story like Geelong.
30 June 2011
Other than providing Department of Planning and Infrastructure endorsement of a select few architects and urban designers, we are cannot see any real value in the document as it stands.
