Planning

We’re grateful to the Audit Office of NSW for its review and recommendations to improve the Planning Portal, and we’ll implement these recommendations in full.

First home buyers will be able to choose between an upfront payment or a smaller annual property tax under reforms that will help make home ownership achievable for more NSW residents.

The NSW Government is setting the stage for the State’s prosperity, delivering a transformational budget that will secure a brighter future for New South Wales by offering steadfast support for families and businesses.

Regional New South Wales is at the heart of the NSW Government’s 2022 Housing Package with almost $328 million to improve housing supply and ensure locals and key workers moving to the regions have a place to call home.

First home buyers, regional residents and communities across New South Wales will benefit from a new $2.8 billion housing package as part of the 2022-2023 NSW Budget.

The NSW Government is investing $554.1 million to fast-track the delivery of new and upgraded homes for both social and Aboriginal housing over the next four years.

The NSW Government has committed almost $500 million unlocking land and accelerating housing infrastructure to help enable hundreds of thousands of new homes across the State.

Teachers, nurses, police, single parents and older singles will be helped to realise their dream of home ownership under a $780.4 million investment in a shared equity scheme to be trialled by the NSW Government.

Another 2,500 social housing tenants now have the chance to upgrade their washing machine for as little as $150, to help save water and ease the cost of living, after the NSW Government expanded its successful washing machine replacement pilot.

Remediation of a former waste oil facility in the Maitland suburb of Rutherford is set to begin, with the land now in the hands of the NSW Government.

The NSW Government has launched the latest round of its Free Tree Giveaway, with up to 9,000 trees – from beautiful red waratahs to the hardy Wynyarbbie Gem – up for grabs by Greater Sydney residents.

Hundreds of new industrial and logistics jobs are coming to Western Sydney, following approval of the first stage a major development in Kemps Creek.

Residents and visitors in Sydney’s north west will soon have the opportunity to test out their training wheels, nail a couple of kickflips or take a leisurely stroll, with a stateof-the-art park on its way for Beaumont Hills.

A metal recycler in Sydney’s west has been fined $250,000 after pleading guilty to breaching the approval conditions of its facility.

A former gaol on the Southern Highlands is set to be transformed into a unique hotel and entertainment precinct.