The NSW Government is expanding its Urban Development Program (UDP), which includes a housing insights dashboard, following a successful pilot program.
The expanded UDP is aimed at helping to boost housing supply by prioritising infrastructure for development-ready land, removing roadblocks and enabling more homes to be built in the right places, faster.
The dashboards are already operating successfully in the Lower Hunter, Newcastle, Central Coast, Illawarra-Shoalhaven and the Western Parkland City.
The program is now being introduced to the Central River City and will be expanded to the Eastern Harbour City next year.
Through online dashboards, the program monitors housing supply in each area, tracking key housing data and supporting annual audits of land for housing.
It also helps inform the NSW Government’s new infrastructure contributions scheme which better connects housing growth and state infrastructure delivery, including schools, hospitals, roads, and parks.
For more information, visit the NSW Planning Portal.
Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Paul Scully said:
“The Urban Development Program helps to unlock more housing land and helps put the right infrastructure in the right places at the right time.
“The program is key to the delivery of infrastructure so that people moving into a new home are also moving into a well-connected community with supporting infrastructure.
“Timely delivery of schools, hospitals, roads, and parks is critical to the success of suburbs and regions and this program helps ensure we have a robust development pipeline in NSW.
“The program uses detailed, current and accessible data on housing, land supply, development activity and constraints to housing delivery.
“Regional audits will capture detailed information on the status of land identified for future housing and allow it to be tracked as it progresses through the housing supply pipeline.”
