Coalition 2027 Pledge: Long Bay delivery authority to unlock 12,000 new homes - Labor: 'one road in - one road out' pushback
Pittwater: one road in - one road pout and traffic gridlock even without an emergency.
On October 28 the Coalition stated a NSW Liberals and Nationals Government will deliver more than 12,000 new homes in Sydney's East through a new Long Bay Delivery Authority (LDA), to be established within its first 100 days [if elected in March 2027].
'The LDA will oversee master planning and infrastructure, investigate transport options and partner with the private sector to deliver new homes and community facilities.' the statement says
'The LDA will also work with Corrective Services to coordinate the relocation of correctional facilities to regional and metropolitan centres, including Goulburn Jail.'
NSW Liberal Leader Kellie Sloane said the Long Bay precinct could unlock thousands of new homes in a highly sought-after part of Sydney.
"The Long Bay Delivery Authority will coordinate this once in a generation opportunity to deliver more than 12,000 homes and build a community for families at a time when they need it the most," Ms Sloane said.
"Long Bay is one of the biggest urban renewal opportunities in NSW, why should prisoners have a coastal home, when this land could be made available for more affordable homes, close to the city?"
“The Authority will have a clear job: bring the agencies together, work through the barriers and get this land ready for new homes.”
Shadow Minister for Planning and Public Spaces Chris Rath said 30 per cent of the homes to be delivered will be affordable and social housing.
"We know there is interest in building here and our commitment to 30 per cent affordable and social housing ensures this won’t just be luxury housing, but homes for young families and essential workers," Mr Rath said.
“We need to plan the transport, infrastructure and public spaces alongside the homes, so this becomes a community that works for the people who live there.”
“Labor has talked a big game on housing but remains almost 40 per cent behind on its housing targets and has overseen record construction business insolvencies. We have a plan to do things differently.”
Liberal Candidate for Coogee Carolyn Martin said the commitment would help young families build their future in the Eastern Suburbs.
“Too many young people and families are being priced out of the Eastern Suburbs. This is an opportunity to give them a future in the community they grew up in, close to their work, schools and family,” Ms Martin said.
Liberal Candidate for Maroubra Kate Beaumont said local residents should have a say in shaping the new community.
“This is a chance to deliver much-needed homes in the Eastern Suburbs, supported by transport, schools, parks and essential services. Residents deserve a say in shaping this new community and making sure we get it right,” Ms Beaumont said.
A similar plan was mooted almost a decade ago by the Coalition.
See July 2017 Daily Telegraph report: Malabar residents want Long Bay Correctional Facility to stay instead of being developed into high rise
One Road In - One Road Out: Daley
Michael Daley, the Member for Maroubra and NSW Attorney-General, strongly criticised the NSW Coalition's proposal to redevelop the Long Bay Correctional Centre in Malabar into 12,000 homes, describing the plan as unworkable and a "fantasy".
Mr Daley and NSW Labor ministers condemned the proposal, stating it would dump a massive density uplift onto an area without adequate transport.
Mr. Daley stated this area is 'one road in and one road out'.
Daley emphasised that Anzac Parade is the only road in or out of the peninsula. He argued that adding 12,000 homes to an area already choked with morning commuter traffic is logistically unworkable without heavy infrastructure. The 'one road in and one road out' would also make evacuation, emergency management, and daily commuting highly vulnerable to traffic gridlock if thousands of new apartments are introduced.
Mr. Daley and local advocates argue that dumping massive residential developments into the precinct without proper upgrades to public transport and multi-directional road access is a major planning and safety hazard.
The ears of residents of Pittwater pricked up when they heard Mr. Daley's comment this week. The 'one road in and one road out' is a fact many have pointed to when pushing back against the overdevelopment of Mona Vale as a 'Town Centre', as well as approving developments across areas north and south of Mona Vale which do not fit the original vision for Pittwater from Pittwater residents to have 'a series of connected villages' and 'houses among trees - not trees among houses'.
Recent SSD's ('Site Significant Developments') for towers up to 48 metres and 14 stories high in flood areas, where the same 'one road in one road out' is a primary reason to reassess allowing developers profits to overrule community knowledge of what happens and has happened in these locations.
Last week the SOS Mona Vale residents group and supporters took a dossier of Key Findings to NSW Parliament after a call for the Planning Minister to meet them was ignored.
See October 2026 Report: Mona Vale Residents Head to Macquarie Street Demanding a Moratorium on Unsafe Development As SSD for 14 storey- 48.75metre Tall Towers in flood zone at Mona Vale progressed
Affordable Housing In Mona Vale More an Uplift in Grift than a Home Solution, July 2026 report
Similar pushbacks are happening in Narrabeen
See September 2026 report: Narrabeen Indigo DA Update: Demolition - Tree Removal refused, Site Manager's Office change to Sales Office also refused
Although residents want everyone to have a home they can afford, whether renting or buying, and would prefer structures to go up rather than out, destroying the fringes of Sydney's bushland and wildlife habitat and the wildlife whose homes this is, with both happening, and happening in places such builds are inappropriate, the debate over using SSD's to allow developers to override communities and their vision for their suburbs, for money, and for dwellings that will still be unaffordable for most, is set to continue as voters weigh up the options for March 2027.