Call for a dedicated co-ordinator general to boost housing supply in NSW

It won’t surprise many of you that a new study has found Australia is set to fall short of the housing targets designed to address the nation’s affordability crisis. While there are a number of factors contributing to the undersupply of housing, recent findings released by the UDIA indicate that Australia is on track for it’s lowest approvals since 2012.

In case you missed it, Solve Property Group’s Chief Planner, Gary White, was recently interviewed about his perspective on Housing Now!’ call for the NSW Government to appoint a dedicated co-ordinator general to boost housing supply in the state.

According to Housing Now! the role of the co-ordinator general is to help drive outcomes in the delivery of new homes, and would play a role in resolving planning roadblocks, reassessing major projects to facilitate approvals, and provide advice to government on policy and infrastructure priorities designed to unlock more homes.

This has been welcomed by Gary, former Chief Planner for the NSW Department of Planning and Environment, who believes there is a need for a mechanism to ease the approval system. Speaking in support of the Housing Now! agenda, Gary said, “When it is the case that government agencies, councils and planning panels are unnecessarily obstructing the approval of new homes and major housing projects, there needs to be someone who can step in and make sensible decisions to ensure NSW gets the housing it desperately needs”.

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