{"id":102937,"date":"2025-04-02T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/?p=102937"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:27:41","slug":"nsw-blames-housing-delays-on-state-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/nsw-blames-housing-delays-on-state-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Blames Housing Delays on State Agencies in New Performance Crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The New South Wales<\/em> government has launched a new reporting mechanism aimed at exposing the agencies responsible for delays in housing development approvals. The State Agency League Table<\/strong> will monitor how efficiently key entities are handling planning processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scheme follows earlier efforts to increase transparency at local council level and is part of a broader push to fast-track the delivery of new homes. It is intended to highlight bottlenecks in the system and improve accountability across the housing pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Agencies Placed Under Scrutiny for Planning Slowdowns <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The new State Agency League Table<\/a>, introduced by NSW Premier Chris Minns<\/em>, tracks the performance of 22 state entities involved in housing approvals.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These include government departments, state-owned corporations<\/em>, and utilities such as Sydney Water<\/em>, AusGrid<\/em>, and the Environment Protection Authority<\/em>. These agencies are tasked with reviewing concurrences, integrated development approvals and referrals (CIRs) before a local council can approve a development application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each body\u2019s performance is now being measured against legislated timeframes: 21 days<\/strong> for standard reviews, or 40 days<\/strong> for applications not publicly exhibited. The state has set a benchmark that 90% of CIRs<\/strong> should be completed within the required period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the government\u2019s first release, performance varies widely. For example, Sydney Trains<\/em> met the benchmark in 95% of cases, while Hunter Water Corporation<\/em> managed just 47%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aim, according to Planning Minister Paul Scully<\/em>, is to ensure the planning pipeline works \u201cas efficiently as possible\u201d. He said the initiative would help improve internal government processes and speed up the delivery of new housing <\/a>across the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Industry Groups Support Transparency to Resolve Backlog<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The move has been welcomed by key property industry bodies who say bureaucratic delays have held up construction-ready projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Stuart Ayres<\/em>, CEO of the Urban Development Institute of NSW<\/em>, the reporting tool \u201cis critical to ensure that where these proposals move forward, they don\u2019t get through the development application front door only to find themselves in a deeper, darker waiting room,\u201d after development approval. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that even viable projects often take two to three years to complete, making every day of delay significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Property Council of NSW<\/em> also backed the new approach, describing it as \u201ca positive move towards holding government <\/a>agencies accountable for unnecessary delays\u201d. Executive Director Katie Stevenson<\/em> pointed to long-standing issues with post-approval processes that have slowed down shovel-ready developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This public tracking system builds on the existing Council League Table<\/strong>, which ranks local government areas by the average time they take to assess development applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Processing times in that report varied from 238 days in Wingecarribee Shire<\/strong> to just 16 days in Brewarrina<\/strong>, highlighting inconsistencies across jurisdictions. By expanding the scope to include state agencies, the government aims to create a more comprehensive view of the delays affecting NSW\u2019s housing supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new government report has pulled back the curtain on housing delays across New South Wales. From water corporations to transport authorities, the data reveals which agencies are dragging their feet\u2014and which are keeping pace. The aim is accountability, but the impact could reshape how fast new homes are delivered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":102939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102940,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102937\/revisions\/102940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.econostrum.info\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}