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It was welcome news that the ACT Government recently abandoned plans to introduce the Independent Planning Advisory Service (IPAS).
This poorly conceived idea, which we’ve previously dubbed ‘legal aid for NIMBY’s’, would have given free legal and planning support to objectors. It exists nowhere else in the country, and flies in the face of the current housing crisis and our efforts to resolve it.
It’s been reported that it won’t go ahead due to there being no tenders received to run the service, but in reality it should never have been proposed in the first place. In the middle of the housing crisis we should be supporting development not spending taxpayer funds to stop new dwellings being built.
This week consultation also closed for the ACT Missing Middle reforms, which hopes to see more low-rise multi-residential development built in Canberra suburbs, and is a concept HIA broadly supports.
However, while reforms will increase the scope of what developments can occur, and where they can be located, the current lack of this type of development in the city is not a planning issue alone. It is due to a number of systemic taxation, approval and legal issues that must also be addressed if the benefit of the Missing Middle changes are to be realised.
Geordan Murray
Executive Director
ACT and Southern NSW
NSW Workers carrying out high risk silica work must now be registered
From this Wednesday (1 October) you will need to register the details of your workers who undertake high-risk silica processing activities on the Silica Worker Register (the register).
Proposed Working from Home Legislation
HIA provided feedback on the Victorian Government’s proposals to legislate a right for employees to work from home (WFH).
Home building heats up in Tassie
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) has released its annual Housing 100 Report, revealing a significant upswing in Tasmania’s residential construction activity.
New plan needed to tackle apprentice dropout rates
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) has warned the current approach to training won’t get Australia to its 1.2 million housing target, on the back of data from the National Centre for Vocational Education and Training (NCVER) showing a decline in the number of construction apprentices in training.
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