The NSW premier is frustrated at the slow turnaround in new housing approvals despite making increased supply the centrepiece of his first term.
The Minns government is weighing up major planning changes that would increase the state’s power to intervene on significant residential housing developments, and which could see councils bypassed on major projects.
The coming reforms are likely to include a new development intervention process that would give a state agency responsibility for approving larger residential developments, over the top of local councils.The state government has previously resisted such a step, in part due to the legacy of the Part 3A planning powers that gave the planning minister consent authority for major projects deemed to be of state or regional significance.
The new mechanism could include establishing an independent planning tsar or panel outside the Department of Planning that would be given decision-making powers, said multiple sources speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations that have yet to be signed off on by cabinet.
. It is also in the process of considering recommendations from a NSW Productivity Commission report that called for relaxed development standards over issues such as
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