December 1 - 31, 2024: Issue 637
Building Homes for NSW program Lists more sites: developers invited to register interest - Double Lot Site at Frenchs Forest + 7 Bush Lots at Seaforth
5-17 Clavering road, Seaforth (low side). Photo: Google maps/street view
The Minns Labor Government states it is delivering on its commitment to stimulate housing supply with sites for another 1400 homes to be delivered through its ''Building Homes for NSW program''. Housing developers are invited to register their interest in the sites.
Twos sites in this area are listed; 5 to 17 Clavering road, Seaforth and 595 to 597 Warringah Road, Frenchs Forest (Frenchs Forest Site Lots: 10//DP1213278, 11//DP1213278 - Area: 2,353 m2. Expected yield: 3 dwellings. Zoning: R2 - Low Density Residential).
The seven Lots at Seaforth are covered in bushland; the site measures 5,440 sqm, or 1.344 acres. This too has a Low Density zoning and 7 dwellings are required to be delivered.
Land audit site
On Sunday November 24 2024 the government announced the land audit has delivered another 11 sites which will be able to deliver approximately 1,300 homes. The sites announced today include two sites at Menai and Haberfield earmarked for transfer to Homes NSW, delivering an estimated 242 dwellings with roughly 130 social and affordable homes.
Three sites at Rooty Hill, St Leonards and Chatswood are being investigated by Landcom and have the potential to deliver almost 850 homes, including more than 80 affordable dwellings. Two sites in Darlinghurst and one each in Turramurra, Frenchs Forest, Wakeley, and Wallarah on the Central Coast will be developed into housing in partnership with the private sector.
The final approach to delivering housing on the sites, including details on quantity and types of housing, will be confirmed following further due diligence and subsequent planning and regulatory approvals, the government stated.
Registration of Interest
To fast-track the delivery of homes, housing developers and members of the public are invited to submit their interest in purchasing surplus NSW Government sites to deliver new homes and help ease the state's housing crisis.
Property and Development NSW (PDNSW) has launched a Registrations of Interest (ROI) campaign, calling on parties to indicate their interest in developing a mix of low, medium and high-density market housing at 22 sites across Sydney and regional NSW.
The Government’s objectives for delivering housing on property audit sites are:
- To maximise dwelling yield
- To minimise time to delivery of new housing
- To support the delivery of affordable and key workers rental housing, where practicable and feasible
- Support modern methods of construction, where practicable and feasible
- Support increased productivity in the housing sector through innovative approaches to development and construction
- Ensure value for money
ROI participants will have the opportunity to identify sites they have an interest in acquiring and propose how they would deliver housing on the sites. This information will be considered alongside the Government’s objectives for the program to inform how housing will be delivered on these sites.
Property and Development NSW’s ROI campaign is open from 23 November to 14 December. For more information and to register your interest, visit:
Homes NSW Sites
Today’s announcement of nine additional sites builds on the NSW Government’s commitment to deliver more social and affordable homes across the state.
The government states the redevelopment sites across Greater Sydney, the Hunter Region, and Central West NSW will deliver over 100 new social homes—an increase of 79 homes above the existing supply. These new homes will be located in:
- Eastwood, 10 new homes
- North St Marys, 22 new homes
- Parkes, 9 new homes
- Riverwood, 16 new homes
- Smithfield, 10 new homes
- Sylvania, 6 new homes
- Telopea, 2 new homes
- Toongabbie, 8 new homes
- Wallsend, 20 new homes
List of other properties and sites:
- Arncliffe – 11–13 West Botany Street
- Arncliffe – 28–30 West Botany Street
- Arncliffe – 92–98 West Botany Street
- Chippendale – 33–37 Regent Street
- Darlinghurst – Corner Wisdom Lane and Palmer Street
- Darlinghurst – Stanley Street
- Earlwood – 16–18 Bayview Avenue
- Fairfield – 422, 424, 426 The Horsley Drive
- Frenchs Forest – 595–597 Warringah Road
- Marsfield – 164 Talavera Road
- Minto – 6–10 Pembroke Road
- Morisset – 8 Yambo Street
- North Sydney – 52 McLaren Street
- Orange – 129–133 Sale Street
- Rouse Hill – 832–842 Windsor Road
- Rouse Hill – 870 Windsor Road
- Rouse Hill – Windsor Road and Annangrove Road
- Seaforth – 5–17 Clavering Road
- Stanmore – 5–9 Cardigan Street
- Turramurra – 1334 and 1340 Pacific Highway
- Wakeley/Prairiewood – 56–58 Richards Road, Wakeley, 60A Box Road, Prairiewood, 479 Smithfield Road, Prairiewood
- Wallarah – 117 Sparks Road, 680 and 680A Bruce Crescent.
Properties map; Learn more about the sizing and density of the 22 selected properties. View the Registration of Interest map
This list will be supplemented with additional sites going forward.
The sites are shovel-ready, with construction set to commence on these sites in the first half of 2025.
Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Paul Scully said:
“This is a whole-of-Government effort to unlock more private, social and affordable housing. The majority of homes delivered during the Housing Accord Period will be delivered by the private sector and that is why we are unlocking surplus land to deliver more well-located homes.
Minister for Lands and Property Steve Kamper said:
“The Minns Labor Government has made housing our number one priority. We are pulling every lever to get the delivery of housing moving. Through the land audit we’ve identified another 11 sites that could potentially deliver almost 1300 homes, which will be another step in our efforts to address housing supply.
“Having firmly established what can be achieved, the property audit will continue as an ongoing and regular function of government in our efforts to find new opportunities to deliver critically needed housing across NSW.”
Minister for Housing and Minister for Homelessness Rose Jackson said:
“As part of the Minns Government's Building Homes for NSW program, Homes NSW has identified an additional nine sites across the state that will deliver over 100 new social and affordable homes for people in need.
“Every home we deliver is a step toward a fairer and more secure future for families across NSW. These new sites will bring us closer to ensuring everyone has a place to call home.”
About the project
The government has stated that housing the people of the state of NSW is a top priority for the NSW Government.
In May 2023, all NSW Government agencies were directed to immediately pause the sale of government-owned land and property while an audit is undertaken to determine what could potentially be used to address the NSW housing supply shortage.
The government’s objectives with respect to surplus property are to:
- maximise dwelling yield
- minimise the time to delivery of new housing
- support the delivery of affordable or key worker rental housing, where practicable and feasible
- support modern methods of construction, where practicable and feasible
- support increased productivity in the housing sector through innovative approaches to development and construction; and
- ensure value for money.
As government’s central property agency, Property and Development NSW (PDNSW), with the assistance of the Cabinet Office, is conducting an audit to identify available government property that may be suitable for housing.
Its focus is on government-owned property that is no longer needed for service delivery or infrastructure in priority housing areas where there is a community need for housing.
As part of the audit process, PDNSW undertakes initial due diligence (an appraisal process) on nominated sites using the government’s land use evaluation tool, Land iQ, before more detailed due diligence takes place.
The audit continues to identify sites not being used by government that are suitable for housing.
Homes NSW and Landcom, the government’s developers, have the first choice of these sites for the delivery of social, affordable, essential worker and market housing.
The identified sites they do not require will be prioritised for divestment to the private sector to deliver market housing.
All sites identified through the property audit will be subject to agency assessments and local planning approvals, which will determine the final number of homes.
The property audit is ongoing.
Clavering Road, Seaforth, Satellite image: Google maps
Lots: 1//DP1090937, 2//DP1090937, 3//DP1090937, 4//DP1090937, 5//DP1090937, 6//DP1090937, 56//DP456179