Strategy could deliver 2.5m new homes – and Jacinta Allan doesn’t rule out forcing councils to hit targets
in the state, with Melbourne’s central business district, its outer suburbs and the regional city of Geelong proposed to bear the brunt of development over the next three decades.broadly welcomed the target strategy but its lead organiser, Jonathan O’Brien, said the nearly 30-year timeline was an exercise in “reading the sweet tea leaves” and the public would be better served by targets that responded directly to known land and home prices.
He warned that western councils including Maribyrnong and Brimbank had been set “very high targets that they’re going to really struggle to deliver because the underlying demand isn’t there”. “If there are some councils who don’t support the construction of new homes, in their local areas, then we as a state government will do that work for them,” Allan said.
The shadow minister for planning, the Liberals’ James Newbury, said on Sunday that the proposal was an attempt by the Labor government to begin “centralising planning” in a way that would “take away the rights of local communities to have a say in what’s being built in their streets”.
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