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One House One Approval plan will drive affordability and faster approvals
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HIA’s updated ‘One House One Approval’ plan released today is crucial to solving this problem,” stated HIA Executive Director – Planning and Development, Mike Hermon.
“State, territory and local planning regulations have become increasingly complex and hinder the development of new housing. At a time when housing has reached record levels of unaffordability and Australian is on course to fall at least 20% short of the government’s 1.2 million homes target, state and territory governments cannot just keep on doing the same and hoping it will solve itself.
“HIA has been promoting the concept of ‘One House One Approval’ for a long time now. It is a simple concept that aims to create a pathway to deliver one approval for the construction of a single dwelling on land zoned as residential.
“Some states and territories, have a version of ‘One House One Approval’, via Complying Development, Exempt Development or Code Assessed Housing, however, often these pathways get overridden by local council planning schemes, secondary planning controls and overly prescriptive planning provisions.
“A new house can typically receive approval under complying development or fast tracked code assessed pathways in approximately 24 days. This is compared with 87 days for those approvals going through council development/planning approvals.
“HIA’s ‘One House One Approval’, looks to double down on these streamlined planning and building approval processes to ensure all forms of housing can be approved inside of 30 days.
“In 2019 HIA released the first report outlining the ‘One House One Approval’ concept and what needed to be done to implement it. HIA has now released an updated version of the report which shows the states which are failing and the ones that have adopted the necessary reforms.
“South Australia and Western Australia have shown some improvements. Other states such as Victoria and NSW have announced prospective future reforms, yet these are just a fraction of what is needed to boost supply in our housing market. Recent state budge announcements on further planning reforms are another important step in the right direction, but more comprehensive reform is needed.
“Not only is the lack of true planning reform affecting housing supply levels, but it is also having significant impact on industry productivity.
“In HIA’s latest CIE report on taxes, fees and charges, it highlighted that in Sydney, $576,000 of a new house and land package is made up taxes, fees and regulatory costs. One of the significant contributors to this is the cost of delays in getting an approval to build.
“By adopting the principles under ‘One House One Approval’ nationally the cost of delivering a home could reduce by up to $10,784 per home.
“HIA is proposing that the adoption of ‘One House One Approval’ should be coupled with increased uptake of new technology such as AI planning tools, that are producing incredible results from government trials with one council approving new homes in less than a week and in a recent example just 2 days.
“HIA continues to push for streamlined, nationally consistent regulatory processes that remove red tape and duplication. ‘One House One Approval’ will give the industry the certainty it needs to build the homes Australians need now and, in the future,” concluded Mr Hermon.
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One House One Approval plan will drive affordability and faster approvals
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