A key NSW Labor housing policy designed to boost density around train stations has failed to deliver, with land earmarked for major apartment developments instead being used for smaller homes and garages.
Land earmarked for major apartment developments under one of NSW Labor’s signature housing policies is instead being used to build garages, single-storey homes and studios, raising further doubts about whether it will help fix the state’s supply shortage. This week revealed that one of the government’s key plans to boost housing density around train stations The seven-storey apartment block in Lindfield was the first and so far only application lodged under the state government’s TOD reforms.
The so-called “tier two” transport-oriented development (TOD) zones allow for greater housing density within 400 metres of 37 heavy rail and metro stations across Greater Sydney, the Hunter and the Illawarra and were an integral pillar of the government’s push to ease the housing crisis. But in the context of soaring construction costs and prohibitively expensive land, developers largely ignored the policy; the lone development application, in Ku-ring-gai, came despite 18 of the “tier two” zones having been implemented eight months earlier. Documents obtained via freedom of information show while development is occurring within 400 metres of the designated “tier two” zones, the vast majority of applications submitted to local councils were for minor works. In Teralba, a suburb of Lake Macquarie, south of Newcastle, the documents show development applications were submitted for nine properties between May and December. Of those, seven were for standalone homes including one with an attached studio, and another was for the reconstruction of two dwellings in an existing townhouse. The last, lodged in November, is for a 65-lot subdivision on a greenfield site – a far cry from the denser urban infill development the government said its transport-oriented development zones would encourage. The pattern is repeated across the “tier two” location
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