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So far this year alone WSROC has prepared over 20 regional responses and submissions to a range of State and Federal inquiries and reviews. All of these are available for free from the WSROC website: http://www.wsroc.com.au/
15 September, 2008
Free Public Seminar: Making Urban Renewal Work
The Challenge Facing the Metropolitan Strategy
Mantra Hotel Parramatta, cnr Parkes St & Valentine Ave, Parramatta
5.00 for 5.30pm until 7.30pm, 1 October 2008
The State Government’s 2005 Metropolitan Strategy has the aim of delivering 640,000 dwellings to 2031 – around 23,500 per year from 2004. Sixty to seventy percent of the new dwellings are to be in established areas - in and around Sydney’s centres with the aim of increasing densities and activity in areas with good public transport access, while constraining growth into valuable urban fringe lands.
However, since the release of the Strategy, progress has been limited, with only 12,940 new dwellings approved during 2006 and 17,614 during 2007. In the established areas simply re-zoning land for higher density residential is unlikely to be sufficient. There are few ‘easy’ development sites available in the required locations. Development in most middle and outer parts of Sydney is typically unviable in current market conditions and existing physical and community infrastructure may be unable to cope with higher residential densities. And community opposition to ad hoc and poor quality development is a further barrier to renewal.
At this seminar, drawing on extensive research on this topic the City Futures Research Centre at UNSW and SGS Economics and Planning will:
· Explore techniques for identifying renewal potential in established areas;
· Analyse some of the market barriers to renewal; and
· Canvass the interventions required to enable the government to reach its housing targets.
The seminar will be of interest to Councils grappling with the challenge of revising planning controls to satisfy dwelling targets, to the development industry struggling to make conventional developments work and to state policy makers anxious to achieve the Metropolitan Strategy’s core objectives in relation to housing. The main event will be followed by drinks and finger food.
RSVP 24 September 2008: Verna.Gibbins@sgsep.com.au
This Seminar is sponsored by Landcom and WSROC
It has been organized jointly by SGS Economics and Planning and
The City Futures Research Centre at UNSW.
Mantra Hotel Parramatta, cnr Parkes St & Valentine Ave, Parramatta
5.00 for 5.30pm until 7.30pm, 1 October 2008
The State Government’s 2005 Metropolitan Strategy has the aim of delivering 640,000 dwellings to 2031 – around 23,500 per year from 2004. Sixty to seventy percent of the new dwellings are to be in established areas - in and around Sydney’s centres with the aim of increasing densities and activity in areas with good public transport access, while constraining growth into valuable urban fringe lands.
However, since the release of the Strategy, progress has been limited, with only 12,940 new dwellings approved during 2006 and 17,614 during 2007. In the established areas simply re-zoning land for higher density residential is unlikely to be sufficient. There are few ‘easy’ development sites available in the required locations. Development in most middle and outer parts of Sydney is typically unviable in current market conditions and existing physical and community infrastructure may be unable to cope with higher residential densities. And community opposition to ad hoc and poor quality development is a further barrier to renewal.
At this seminar, drawing on extensive research on this topic the City Futures Research Centre at UNSW and SGS Economics and Planning will:
· Explore techniques for identifying renewal potential in established areas;
· Analyse some of the market barriers to renewal; and
· Canvass the interventions required to enable the government to reach its housing targets.
The seminar will be of interest to Councils grappling with the challenge of revising planning controls to satisfy dwelling targets, to the development industry struggling to make conventional developments work and to state policy makers anxious to achieve the Metropolitan Strategy’s core objectives in relation to housing. The main event will be followed by drinks and finger food.
RSVP 24 September 2008: Verna.Gibbins@sgsep.com.au
This Seminar is sponsored by Landcom and WSROC
It has been organized jointly by SGS Economics and Planning and
The City Futures Research Centre at UNSW.
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