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NSW Government bows to Council Pressure on Development Levy Caps

The latest measures introduced by NSW Planning Minister in early September to lift the development levy cap from $20,000 to $30,000 in Greenfield development areas is a blow to new home buyers in the state – the one group that can least afford it.

The State Government has yielded under pressure from major growth Councils. This backflip not only questions the resolve of the Government to deal with the much needed structural reform in the delivery of residential infrastructure but that it remains content with the fact that NSW (and Sydney especially) remains the most unaffordable state for new housing.

HIA has formally expressed its disappointment at these new measures urging the NSW Planning Minister to maintain the $20,000 s94 cap, as originally announced in June 2010.

HIA remains of the position that the cost-shifting of public infrastructure provision onto new home buyers is inequitable and unfair. A new model and new thinking is needed urgently. Click here to read HIA’s media release.

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