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12 | Housing Diversity Guide THE CONTEXT FOR HOUSING DIVERSITY
2.2 Metropolitan Strategy, regional strategies
and subregional strategies
Housing diversity will play a critical role in
helping to achieve the objectives outlined in
the State Government’s Metropolitan Strategy
for Sydney, the subregional strategies for the
ten subregions of the Greater Metropolitan
Region and the seven regional strategies.
The Metropolitan Plan, ‘City of Cities: A Plan
for Sydney’s Future,’ supports continuing
economic growth while balancing social and
environmental impacts. Its strategic direction is
based on anticipated population, and economic
and demographic trends. The Strategy has been
developed with five aims: enhance liveability;
strengthen economic competitiveness; ensure
fairness; protect the environment; and improve
governance.
The Metropolitan Strategy outlines the
population growth and demographic changes
expected to the year 2031, the anticipated
life of the strategy. These expected changes
include the trend to smaller households and
the ageing of the population. These trends
are expected to result in more single and
two person households, with a consequential
demand for smaller housing with good access
to shops, transport and services such as health.
The Metropolitan Strategy also notes that
increasing affluence and more single and young
people living alone are major contributors to a
projected increased demand for smaller homes.
These changes in household type and
occupancy rates mean that total demand for
housing will be greater than that generated
solely by population growth. The demographic
trends also suggest that a wider mix of housing
types will be required.
The Metropolitan Strategy includes net targets
for new housing in developing and established
areas of Sydney. It sets out a range of actions
addressing provision of a mix of housing types,
and identifying locations for additional housing,
including housing for seniors and people with a
disability. Housing diversity can play a critical
role in delivery of many of these actions.
The ten draft subregional strategies interpret
the objectives of the Metropolitan Strategy’s
long-term planning at a more local level. Each
of the final subregional strategies will contain
housing and employment capacity targets to
the year 2031, which councils will be required
to accommodate in their comprehensive Local
Environmental Plans (LEPs). The housing targets
take into account the Metropolitan Strategy
objective of encouraging greater housing
diversity.
In addition to the ten subregional planning
strategies for the Sydney region, seven
regional strategies have been prepared by
the Department of Planning. The strategies
contain housing and employment targets to
the year 2031 and outline population growth
and demographic changes expected for
each region. Encouraging housing diversity
is an important consideration in adequately
responding to the projected population growth
and changes in these regions.
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