New Port Macquarie Hastings Local Housing Strategy:

The Local Housing Delivery Plan (the Plan) is a delivery document for the PortMacquarie-Hastings Living and Place Strategy.

The Plan provides greater detail on how the required housing will be delivered on a sub-regional basis and provides actions to ensure the timely delivery of the plan.

The plan provides a method for land supply analysis and informs decisions regarding future land zoning and planning controls to ensure delivery of suitable housing.

The plan is based on the assumption not all land zoned for development is suitable for development and to combat this assumes a percentage of land would be set aside for environmental constraints or infrastructure delivery.

The plan is not granular rather considers the need for housing on a regional and subregional scale.

As such, this plan does not replace the need for more detailed precinct or structure planning or site-specific assessments.

Assumptions of dwelling yields may be exceeded in certain locations and not met in other locations.

Ongoing monitoring and review is required to ensure housing demands are being met. 

The Living and Place Strategy and population projections outline the need for a minimum of 12,000 dwellings across the Port Macquarie-Hastings Local Government Area (LGA) by 2046.

This Plan outlines the delivery of over 15,000 dwellings to ensure a diversity in supply. Appropriate staging and monitoring is vital to ensure the logical delivery of infrastructure to support growth.

Growth must be in accordance with staging outlined in this plan and changes to the Local Environmental Plan (LEP) controls including zoning and MLS will not be supported until certainty around required infrastructure delivery can be providedand the infrastructure must be completed prior to development of the site/s to ensure appropriate infrastructure to service development.

The Plan seeks to implement the North Coast Regional Plan Strategy 1.4 and seeks to prioritise infill development.

The plan outlines the delivery of over 40% of 6,000 dwellings via infill or medium density and seeks to encourage greater medium density development in future greenfield areas to achieve the housing diversity aspirations outlined in Council’s Living and Place Strategy. 

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