High council levies and reams of bureaucratic red tape have crippled housing development in Sydney, an urban planning expert says. A report prepared by BIS Shrapnel for Urban Taskforce predicts Melbourne will grow larger than Sydney because it is building new homes at twice the rate. Urban Taskforce chief executive Aaron Gadiel says NSW government policies have hampered land release and sparked massive increases in development levies.
ATO plans to charge GST on manufactured home parks scrapped
A concerted effort by the Residents Association of manufactured home parks has headed off the ATO which had planned to impose GST in mobile homes. This would have added 10% to the cost of the purchase of a home