NSW Premier Chris Minns has fired a warning shot at recalcitrant councils, saying he will look to extraordinary planning reforms if the state’s ambitious housing targets aren’t met.
NSW Premier Chris Minns has declared war on NIMBYs, warning councils he will turn to the nuclear option if the state’s ambitious housing targets aren’t met.
“We’ve got the powers inside the NSW government, giving the government the powers to enact reform to pursue housing targets and completions in various parts of the state,” he said.“We don’t need any enabling legislation to make that happen. And there’s a balancing act if we don’t intervene; if councils, in particular, don’t meet their challenges.”
The consequence of failing to act was the continued loss of the state’s “best and brightest” young people to other states and territories, Minns said, noting the 200,000 who had already left NSW.“Traditionally, we’ve had interstate migration, but it’s often been people who have retired ... Now our best and brightest young people that we want to invest and grow and start businesses in NSW are leaving in unprecedented ways, and it’s not sustainable,” he said.
Minns said he was clear-eyed that half of those opposed to development were unwinnable, but he believed the other half could be won over with good development that ensured young people could get into the property market. Highlighting negative comments made by opposition treasury spokesman Damien Tudehope, Greens MPs Jenny Leong and Cate Faehrmann, and former Labor turned One Nation MP Tania Mihailuk about developments, Minns said were anathema to the political attitudes required to meet housing supply targets.
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