Business News Less reliance on cars, more green spaces and a shift away from centralised electricity could form the basis of a new policy on WA’s neighbourhoods, the Western Australian Planning Commission says. WA Planning Commission chairman David Caddy told an Urban Development Institute of Australia WA event today that a revised liveable neighbourhoods policy would focus on sustainability. He […]
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Business News The state government is pushing ahead with implementing an expedited planning pathway. One of the state government’s top priorities in early 2020 when COVID-19 arrived in Australia was safeguarding the economy. Among the key measures identified to achieve this outcome was the acceleration of proposed planning reforms, including a new development application process […]
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WA BUSINESS NEWS A disconnect between urban infill ambitions in WA and the sector’s ability to deliver is hindering the development of medium-density projects. There is a ‘missing middle’ phenomenon emerging in Western Australia’s property sector. Steven Rowley, the director of Curtin University’s housing and urban research centre, told an Urban Development Institute of Australia […]
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