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Sydney residential construction boom triggers urgent demand on transport, jobs and schools; NSW Housing approvals are at their highest level since 2000, with more than 52,000 approvals made in the past 12 months
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Sydney's new home boom triggers urgency in addressing transport, jobs and schools

October 7, 2014
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Sydney's market for new homes is at a 10-year high and the city is sprawling. But are the city's growth areas ready for new residents?

The Herald has mapped federal government data showing where new homes have been approved for construction in Sydney over the past two years. Not all will be built, but the figures indicate where the development is focused and how it will change the face of the city.

"The data highlights the schizophrenic nature of Sydney's housing supply," says Bill Randolph, the director of the City Futures program. "It's either low density [on the] fringe or high density in the central city."

But, on balance, Sydney, is becoming denser, and quickly.

Apartments make up little less than 70 per cent of these newly approved homes and the next three years will bring an all-time record of apartment construction.

In 2011, only about one-quarter of Sydney's residents lived in apartments.

The figures also show that Sydney is skewing north. The state government has two big priorities for new development on the city's north-western and south-western fringes.

The north-west is peeling ahead. Apart from a boom in Sydney's centre, developers are targeting Parramatta, Blacktown, the Hills and, increasingly, Auburn and Ryde, for a wave of new residents drawn by better transport and proximity to professional jobs.

NSW Housing approvals are at their highest level since 2000, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, with more than 52,000 approvals made in the past 12 months.

Minister for Planning Pru Goward said: "We know there will be 2 million extra people living in NSW by 2031, which means we will need about a million more homes."

But with growth comes stress. Recent reports show that Sydney's growing and sprawling population is becoming the biggest problem for government service delivery.

Here, we survey the challenges Sydney faces in catering for new residents in three key fields.

Transport

The trouble of travelling from western Sydney to the CBD has been Sydney's most obvious transport issue for decades. That is likely to be compounded by surging growth in Parramatta and Blacktown.

"Parramatta and Blacktown are heavily reliant on the western Sydney rail line – the most overcrowded line during peak hours," said Michelle Zeibots from the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney.

The western line runs at 120 per cent of its capacity most mornings.

Most of western Sydney's roads are similarly overloaded: ranked on a six-letter scale of capacity with "F" as completely dysfunctional, they come in at an "E" or "D".

"If the west is lucky, those in government [will] secure new public transport initiatives like the Parramatta light rail," Dr Zeibots said. "[New] motorways like WestConnex will not help the west or support greater development because any new traffic on the motorway network eventually has to come off onto [already congested] local roads."

Overcrowding is starting to affect the fast-growing development of Green Square, just south of the city's centre. Of the 117 buses that pass through the area around the Green Square development every morning, many are full on arrival and car traffic is expected to increase by one-third in coming decades.

Newly approved projects such as Meriton's 1000-tower Mascot Central project will only compound these problems.

Transport consultant Alex Gooding notes that while transport planners are welcoming new rail links to support the north and south-west, less attention is being paid to the new growth suburbs that fall outside their reach.

The south-west rail link will reach suburbs such as Leppington before development takes off, but there is no planned connection for two of Camden's newest and fastest-growing suburbs in Oran Park and Turner Road.

Only about 7 per cent of people in Camden – the seventh-fastest growing area – use public transport.

And in the north-west, though planners are hailing a new rail link, it has not yet been connected to one of the Sydney's newest areas of future development: Marsden Park, the future site of 30,000 homes.

Jobs

A lack of transport connections and what in urban planning lingo is called "connectivity" are linked closely to the other major problem of Sydney's development: jobs.

The government's strategy is to move both people and jobs into its growth new areas in the north and south-west.

There are nearly 400,000 workers in the north and south-west, according to a report by consultancies Essential Economics and Geografia. But only about 250,000 of them have jobs within the region.

In a little more than a decade, 200,000 new workers will pile in, putting further stress on transport networks if local jobs are not created.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/sydneys-new-home-boom-triggers-urgency-in-addressing-transport-jobs-and-schools-20141005-10mmyr.html
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6 Oct 2014, 08:06 AM
Constipated supply. :lol
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The western line runs at 120 per cent of its capacity most mornings.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

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Construction is booming. This is the supply-side response that we badly needed:

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... with plenty of jobs:

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Plans for an extra 50,000 homes on Parramatta Road

October 30, 2014 - 12:15AM
Jacob Saulwick

Homes for about 100,000 extra residents will be built along Parramatta Road in the next few decades, according to an ambitious plan being developed by the state government's property development arm.

The plans would include thousands of extra apartments around suburbs such as Taverners Hill, Camperdown and Leichhardt in Sydney's inner west, but the bulk of the dwellings would be on the western end of Parramatta Road, around Homebush, Granville and Auburn.

The developer, UrbanGrowth NSW, has repeatedly delayed releasing its plans for Parramatta Road.

But according to sources briefed on its thinking, the government property agency wants to add 51,600 apartments along Parramatta Road to coincide with the WestConnex underground motorway, to be built underneath the notoriously congested corridor.

The draft strategy for the corridor, according to sources, includes an extra 17,000 apartments around Homebush and Sydney Olympic Park. Separate documents show the government is considering a "new CBD for the Corridor" in this area.

Another 13,000 apartments would be built near Granville; about 5000 near Burwood; and about 5000 at Taverners Hill near Petersham and Leichhardt.

UrbanGrowth NSW would not confirm the figures. The developer responded through a public relations consultant, Wise McBaron Communication, that it would not discuss the specifics of the draft strategy until it was released.

"The draft strategy will be a starting point for discussion with the community and will be made public after the release of the Metropolitan Strategy for Sydney," consultant Trudy Wise said in an email.

The plans are certain to be controversial, with some residents and politicians already concerned about public transport and traffic congestion in the area and the impact on local amenity.

Separate documents tabled in state Parliament show that buses on Parramatta Road are already full during peak periods, and in the afternoon run on average about 10 minutes late.

"This travel time variability impacts on connections with other transport modes and reduces the attractiveness of bus, and public transport, as a travel mode," said documents tabled in response to a call for papers on WestConnex.

Those documents also describe Homebush as representing an opportunity for a "new CBD", Taverners Hill as a place for a new "creative industry hub to emerge", and Auburn to become a "new mixed-use, live-work precinct".

But it remains unclear how the government will stimulate its development plans. It also remains unclear how far from Parramatta Road UrbanGrowth NSW wants to promote high-rise and medium-density developments.

Of the 10 councils along the corridor, all but Leichhardt have resolved to or signed memoranda of understanding to work with the state government on its strategy for the corridor.

Burwood mayor John Faker said Planning Minister Pru Goward had been "pretty reasonable" about requests to trade off development near Parramatta Road for lower development in other areas.

"I'm open-minded to work with the minister because ... at the last meeting she advised [she] will listen to our concerns," Cr Faker said.

Asked about the potential for thousands of new apartments around Leichhardt and Taverners Hill, Leichhardt mayor Rochelle Porteous said her council was "the fourth most densely populated area in Australia and 70 per cent of our municipality is heritage conservation zones".

"It is important that we preserve the character and livability of our local area – those kind of numbers are unsustainable and would have unacceptable impacts on the local residents and businesses," Cr Porteous said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/plans-for-an-extra-50000-homes-on-parramatta-road-20141029-11dfmz.html
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