The call by planners to include seniors housing in the new building zones around 37 railway stations as part of changes to the Housing SEPP has been agreed.
The seniors housing bonus, which includes bonus floor space ratio incentives of between 15% and 25% to encourage seniors housing developments in higher density areas, will now apply to all R1 (General Residential), R2 (Low-Density Residential) and R3 (Medium Density Residential) zones on land where the NSW Transport Oriented Development applies.
The first stage of the NSW Government’s Transport Oriented Development (TOD) planning reforms has been implemented through an amendment to the State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021 - TOD (the Housing SEPP) gazetted on Monday, 29 April.
The amended planning controls will apply within 400 metres of 37 stations to deliver more affordable homes.
The building height for residential flat buildings will be limited to six storeys, with the potential to add the seniors housing bonus.
"This broadens its applicability to land beyond where typically residential flat buildings are permissible," said Ethos Urban Director Daniel West.
He said it was paramount to the future development of seniors housing that the seniors housing bonus applies in addition to the Floor Spaced Ratio and height provided by the TOD SEPP.
"This was not mentioned in any material released prior to the gazetted amending instrument today, so is very welcome news for which DPHI should be commended," Daniel said.
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