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13/06/2026

$30m for ~400 lots, plus probably $50m for civil work, connection services and infrastructure? that’s at most $200k in costs to supply a new lot to the market. However we see new lots sell for $500k near Nowra. That $300k price gap is the premium you pay for scarce rights to live.. near Nowra. It’s an embarrassment that shoalhaven council, a regional area yet some of the worst land bankers in the country for virtually no good reason, trickle feed this to price out young and working people. Local governments have used this as a a century old tactic to slowly leak out the rif raf and replace them with quiet, old, knife and fork pizza eating types. Don’t think that’s the case here, you wouldn’t give their strategic planners and councillors credit for that level of intelligence. Another once vibrant, dying and boring region. Only way to turn it around is rezoning like this, and or construction innovation / rule relaxation

11/06/2026

Funny seeing familiar faces who fight for the environment when it suits them. When confronted, they prioritise trees and green space behind the icky feeling they get about tall buildings. Talk about fickle values. Blaq’s tall shop top housing development behind collegians has proposed building coverage far less than townhouses - more for public and green space. But since it quadruples height settings to 100m we get the perpetual protestors who can’t recognise they’ve won gold here. 25m height limits were set by the whims of some strategic city planner who lives in a 1 storey house at the back of Cordeaux heights and travels to Jamaica once a year for research. They’re not some natural law, nor do they provide any societal benefit, just harm. The sightlines to the escarpment from every square meter of the continent doesn’t encourage new family creation or earlier retirement or more holidays - a $300k discount on a homes thanks to abundance supply does. Written submissions of support due 7/7, link in bio

08/06/2026

I’ve moved to Sydney for now. Pls keep writing submissions of support to council or on Planning Alerts website for more apartments, unless you want to visit your grandkids in Nowra. We are far behind on housing targets. Rents will go up, on average more - even through this brief rates cycle. The tax reforms will of course help.. by providing the a 4% price reduction, wiping out a couple months growth lol. Construction innovation too - maybe a 10% reduction than otherwise. The big issue is unfortunately shortages

07/05/2026

Grow a set IRT and go 30 storeys through the state government. The only thing “challenging” is maintaining a friendship with unelected council planners. You’d have a better time having Friday shandy’s with an elite chess player. You never regret a dump, so dump the council, get better friends in state, don’t waste another day putting the square peg in the council pinhole ❤️

13/04/2026

REFUSED

By the local planning panel, Wollongong Council.
87 retiree living units towradgi

F$king atrocious. They have been trying for 5 years, even redesigning *with* council to address previous concerns.

Do we have a housing crisis or not?

09/04/2026

“Alot of the things that were preventing affordable housing coming on to the market was some of the complex planning rules.”

First pattern book home in the state, coming to Corrimal. 4 units on a 500m2 site, council planners aren’t allowed to block, scrutinise or delay - so it’s approved in about a week.

This will help a lot and is great for many places, though with the growing demand and price of land in corrimal it’s going to quickly become an underdevelopment for the area. Even with a cheap structure, scarce developable land comes at near 2/3rds the price of a home here

07/01/2026

On ABC Illawarra Breakfast radio today to talk about the new political competition for YIMBY housing policies. A new shadow cabinet has Chris Rath, a young YIMBY originally from Illawarra, as shadow housing and planning minister.

Some of nsw Libs point of difference to Labor is to lower taxes and fees to make more homebuilding feasible, though it is needed for infrastructure, that could be funded elsewhere. They also want to keep local planning, rather than draw circles around town centres stations to permit units, though Labor did also allow councils to counter propose housing plans to replace these circles.

But libs, and Rath, are also fiercely vocal against council restrictions - so it's yet to be seen whether they will intervene in their own way, or perhaps just slap harsh penalties later if a council fails to meet housing targets.

YIMBYs all have some personal preference to policy, though support whatever builds more homes. Broad church!

04/11/2025

Kiama Depot out for public comment - rezoning for 450 apartments next to Kiama Bowlo and the train station and town centre. 10% affordable, 600 parking spaces, 6-8 storeys

Pretty amazed this didn't turn into 50 x 2 storey houses. This is probably the best thing Kiama Council has done proactively ever for housing affordability.

Support here up to dec 3: https://www.planningportal.nsw.gov.au/ppr/under-exhibition/kiama-depot

03/09/2025

104 place childcare centre proposed in Corrimal, near the bowlo

NIMBYs have opposed several of these, and council have refused most due to their restrictive planning settings.

Theres no reason for young parents to struggle in the northern suburbs. We aren't Sierra Leone.
Write a supportive submission - link in bio or here: https://www.planningalerts.org.au/applications/3345992

Due October 1st.

02/09/2025

Big turnout for the Bulli NIMBYs against a modest 3 storey social housing building

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