ApartmentsClare BurnettTue 28 Jul 26
From Councils to Court: Inside NSW’s New Planning Battleground
NSW’s planning reforms—from Low and Mid Rise to the Housing Delivery Authority—have provided much needed certainty to the industry.
On this episode of The Bueprint podcast, The Urban Developer journalists Clare Burnett and Patrick Lau discuss the changes, how individual councils such as Newcastle have adopted their own pathways, and how these reforms have affected development pipelines.
We also chat to Mills Oakley planning and environment law specialist James Oldknow to get his take on how the planning reforms are impacting projects going before the Land and Environment Court.
Oldknow gets candid about what he’s seeing at the coalface, where the disconnect between state regulation and local controls sits, and where developers in specific council areas are facing an uphill battle.
We discuss:
The planning reforms making a difference in NSW
Newcastle’s accelerated development assessment pathway
NSW Land and Environment Court—how busy is it and what issues are developers facing in court?
Mosman and Kur-ring-gai; anti-development councils where developers are pushing ahead
Learn more about the impact the NSW planning reforms are having on the development industry on this week’s Blueprint podcast available now on Apple Music, YouTube or Spotify.
