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Housing Minister Clare O’Neil says the National Construction Code has builders tangled in red tape and the government’s decision to pause changes will allow them to build more homes. “We’ve got a National Construction Code here, which has become unworkable for our builders,” she told Sky News, “there’s no simple tool to use it”.
“It’s much too long, much too complicated, and the Productivity Commission has told us that this is the main federal barrier to us building the homes that we need, and we’ve just used the Roundtable to chart a really clear course to have a balanced approach to manage that for our builders,” she said. “These changes are really about saying we want our builders doing what they do best, which is building high quality homes for Australians, not seeing them trapped in the back office, filling in forms and dealing with red tape.” The minister defended recent changes to the code to include energy efficiency standards, green tape the industry claims has added $30-50,000 to the cost of building a new home. “We want to have energy-efficient houses, and of course, climate change is a reality that’s got to be dealt with, but we want to do this in a way that’s workable for our builders. The way that we’ve approached this, really, is that we made a significant upgrade to energy efficiency standards in 2022, which I might say were well overdue.”
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