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Attachment 1 - Previous ReportTitle: Affordable HousingReporting OfficerManager Environmental PlanningAttachments1. State Environmental Planning Policy (Affordable Rental Housing) 2009(distributed under separate cover)2. Housing Stress Report (distributed under separate cover)Purposea) To inform Council of the commencement of the State Environmental PlanningPolicy (Affordable Rental Housing) 2009;b) To assess the implications of the new SEPP for the supply of affordablehousing;c) To advise Council of the completion of the Housing Stress Report undertakenfor the Campbelltown LGA; andd) To confirm the forthcoming Affordable Housing Strategy for Campbelltown.ReportState Environmental Planning Policy (Affordable Rental Housing) 2009State Environmental Planning Policy (Affordable Rental Housing) 2009 (The SEPP)commenced on 31 July 2009. The policy is directed at home owners, social housingproviders and developers and includes planning incentives and complyingdevelopment provisions to increase the amount and diversity of affordable housing inNSW.The SEPP also updates the arrangements governing the supply and retention of lowcost rental accommodation in New South Wales. The policy prevails over all otherenvironmental planning instruments to the extent of any inconsistency.The SEPP is in three parts:Part 1 – Preliminary provisionsPart 2 – New affordable rental housingPart 3 – Retention of existing affordable rental housingThe SEPP contains similar provisions to State Environmental Planning Policy No.10– Retention of Low Cost Rental Accommodation (which has now been repealed).
The aims of the SEPP are provided under Clause 3 of the Policy as follows:3. Aims of PolicyThe aims of this Policy are as follows:a. To provide a consistent planning regime for the provision of affordablerental housing,b. to facilitate the effective delivery of new affordable rental housing byproviding incentives by way of expanded zoning permissibility, floorspace ratio bonuses and non-discretionary development standards,c. To facilitate the retention and mitigate the loss of existing affordablerental housing,d. to employ a balanced approach between obligations for retaining andmitigating the loss of existing affordable rental housing, and incentives forthe development of new affordable rental housing,e. To facilitate an expanded role for not-for-profit-providers of affordablerental housing,f. To support local business centres by providing affordable rental housingfor workers close to places of work, andg. To facilitate the development of housing for the homeless and otherdisadvantaged people who may require support services, including grouphomes and supportive accommodation.‘Affordable Housing’The Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 defines ‘affordable housing’as follows:“affordable housing” means housing for very low income households, lowincome households or moderate income households, being such householdsas are prescribed by the regulations or as are provided for in an environmentalplanning instrument.Clause 6 of the SEPP adopts the above definition for affordable housing subject tothe following terms:1) In this Policy, a household is taken to be a very low income household, lowincome household or moderate income household if the household:a) has a gross income that is less than 120 per cent of the medianhousehold income for the time being for the Sydney Statistical Division(according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics) and pays no more than30 per cent of that gross income in rent, orb) is eligible to occupy rental accommodation under the National RentalAffordability Scheme and pays no more rent than that which would becharged if the household were to occupy rental accommodation underthat scheme.2) In this Policy, residential development is taken to be for the purposes ofaffordable housing if the development is on land owned by the Land andHousing Corporation.
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