Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Apr 01, 2016 4:55 pm Petitioning The Hon. Richard Wynne MP, Minister for Planning please sign this petition to support us!!! https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-richar ... m=copylink Victoria has a housing crisis - our median house price is $706,000 and our median rent for a unit is $365 per week. We have 22,800 homeless people and 35,000 people on the public housing waiting list. Older people do not have enough options to downsize within their communities and kids can't afford to leave home. Our average new house is 241m2 - the largest in the world and yet our household sizes are shrinking. We are just not building enough small affordable homes in our middle suburbs because our planning rules make this type of development expensive and complicated. We need to change our rules for granny flats to match NSW, WA and ACT. In those States it is possible to build a small secondary permanent dwelling behind an existing home which can be used by dependents or rented out to unrelated parties - all without planning approval or requirements to subdivide. This helps to provide a diversity of accommodation in the suburbs where there is already infrastructure and services. It allows for relatively inexpensive small dwellings to be built which deliver affordable rental property to an increasingly unaffordable market. Its a smart, easy change to our rules that will support affordable housing choices. Re: Granny flats law need to be change in Victoria 4Apr 01, 2016 10:32 pm Although it sounds great for landlords ( I can hear the sound of money chinking into my wallet!) a mass explosion of granny flats places increased pressure on infrastructure including parking etc. It is amazing how all the infill housing recently built isn't really that cheap either! Despite what the developer wannabes say. What would work is the ability to build a granny flat on the provision that it is rented out to people on low incomes, via a housing association for about ten years. in a legal contract. NSW has a provision for this. But it should still be done in a planned way that keeps our municipalities safe and well designed. This petition is actually put up by a building and design company, who build small dwellings! I'm sure they are lovely, but just seems to be just a tiny bit of self interest at work! Re: Granny flats law need to be change in Victoria 5Apr 01, 2016 11:23 pm "What would work is the ability to build a granny flat on the provision that it is rented out to people on low incomes, via a housing association for about ten years. in a legal contract. " I wouldn't build a granny flat under those conditions. If I'm the one picking up the tab, I don't want some govt agency telling me how I can use it and I think a lot of people would feel the same and not bother either. To the op, I'm not sure what the requirements in wa are, I doubt they are built without planning approval since you can't build much of anything without that, but they aren't really that common either. If I was a landlord, I wouldn't want my tenants living in my backyard, and if I was a tenant, I wouldn't want to be living on my landlords back step, so I think it's much more suited to family member situations. Infill development is far more common here (there are about 3x as many houses/flats in my street from redevelopment on the original 1/5 acre blocks as there used to be), and as joynz said above it creates other issues. The traffic has dramatically increased, the lack of parking is a problem, we have now been having electricity supply issues for months because the transformers can't keep up with the extra demand from all this additional housing that has built up over several years. It's all good for the developers, but they are not required to upgrade the existing infrastructure as they go and the councils don't bother to think about the other issues it creates in the future. Re: Granny flats law need to be change in Victoria 6Apr 02, 2016 8:45 am Building something like this carte blanche without any approval from councils would be a huge problem. Every man and his dog would be doing it with backyards disappearing and neighbouring properties being adversely affected without any recourse. Bad idea. There are enough regulations in place already to enable people to build a secondary dwelling in their backyard - if their properties comply. Here is another thread about possible changes to the area rule currently at 60 square metres... viewtopic.php?f=1&t=81910 Stewie Re: Granny flats law need to be change in Victoria 8Apr 06, 2016 1:55 pm Petition update 29 Feb 2016 — Planning Minister Richard Wynne spoke at the MBAV conference last friday. He indicated that changes to planning rules for secondary dwellings was under consideration and that an announcement would be made soon. Please share the petition far and wide so that we can convince the Minster this is an important issue. Re: Granny flats law need to be change in Victoria 9Apr 06, 2016 3:02 pm We are already fast tracking to third world country by building our houses without quality control and now we need it to go faster with abolition of planning so we can have fevolas sooner. No thanks! Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Granny flats law need to be change in Victoria 10Apr 07, 2016 6:05 pm building-expert We are already fast tracking to third world country by building our houses without quality control and now we need it to go faster with abolition of planning so we can have fevolas sooner. No thanks! Can you imagine what would happen if this was to come to pass - massive stupidity to even consider doing this. I would suggest you simply go and talk to council about your proposal, most councils are getting onboard with ancillary dwellings. There is no benefit in keeping it… 1 4069 I think I know the answer but just checking to see if anyone has had experience with it. I want to build a small 20 square metre retreat in my backyard, it will have a… 0 13828 Any advice on how to ensure the kit home granny flat that im thinking of buying will get council approval. The kit home companys wont release plans without a deposit and… 0 7114 |