Housing Developments | Northern Suburbs

[Cruise]

these areas are actually starting to look good, just think westwood not even 10 years ago ferreden park was the porest suburb in the country (fact) and look at it now.

If it was up too me the whole oF Elizabeth would be renamed Playford (and its surrounding suburbs being renamed playford north, south, east, west and etc) to try and get rid of its perception. and remaning has been proven to work.

[crawf]

Huge new land release
Article from: The Advertiser

RHIANNON HOYLE and GREG KELTON

August 14, 2007 03:00pm

FOUR separate parcels of land in Adelaide's north - totalling about 200ha - will be released for residential development, it was announced today.

The land is expected to create about 2600 allotments in Andrews Farm, Blakeview and Evanston South, Minister for Housing Jay Weatherill told a housing summit this afternoon.

The land will be released to the market in four separate stages between October and January.

With an affordable housing target of 15 per cent, it is expected at least 390 allotments will be set aside for affordable housing options.

Mr Weatherill also announced an affordable housing scheme, giving low and moderate income earners exclusive access for 90 days to buy affordable homes in new developments.

In a new package of state housing reforms, homebuyers earning less than $59,000 a year will get the first option to buy many of the affordable homes being put on the market in South Australia.

Properties that fail to sell will then be released on to the general housing market. The measure will involve homes up to a value of $250,000.

The State Government will also inject an extra $20 million into housing for the disadvantaged.
More details to come.

The summit was aimed at developing practical measures that will result in greater affordable housing options for SA.

In his speech to the summit, Mr Weatherill also announced that the Government is developing a:

SOCIAL landlords policy, which will allow private landlords and institutional investors to enter into an agreement to accept lower than market rent in return for secure rental income, assistance with maintenance and insurance and tenant support.

RENT-TO-BUY scheme to allow South Australians to progressively purchase a property.

Under the new housing plan, which Mr Weatherill said was an Australian-first, affordable homes built in new housing developments would be offered exclusively to low and moderate income earners for 90 days.

Former Housing SA properties will be on offer for 30 days.

Up to 8000 Housing Trust homes will be on sale over the next decade as part of the plan to cut the state's housing debt and to fund more affordable housing.

The Opposition has branded the move a "fire sale", arguing there were no guarantees all the money would be used to pay off Housing SA debt or be spent on new homes.

Under state planning laws, 15 per cent of all new housing developments must be classed as affordable housing.

Mr Weatherill said eligible buyers would have to be owner-occupiers of the affordable property and own no other properties.

"The Government is working to increase the supply of lower-cost affordable homes and this initiative will ensure low and moderate income earners will have the first pick of those homes," he said.

Mr Weatherill said the $20 million injection would be committed this financial year for the SA Affordable Housing Trust to enter into new partnerships with the community housing sector.

Key housing industry leaders and local government representatives will speak at the summit.

Issues to be discussed include land use and investment opportunities in affordable housing.

After lifting interest rates last week, the Reserve Bank yesterday signalled it may raise them again before the end of the year.

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello yesterday played down the fears despite a host of market analysts agreeing it was now more likely than unlikely.

[rhino]

How big is the green belt between Adelaide Metro and Gawler supposed to be? There doesn't seem to be much space left for it in this scenario. I would have thought that the green belt would have to be at least a kilometre wide to have any integrity (to retain Gawler's "country town" feel). If it's reduced to a narrow linear park, it's just a big wank.

[Cruise]

How big is the green belt between Adelaide Metro and Gawler supposed to be? There doesn't seem to be much space left for it in this scenario. I would have thought that the green belt would have to be at least a kilometre wide to have any integrity (to retain Gawler's "country town" feel). If it's reduced to a narrow linear park, it's just a big wank.

The adelaide urban growth boundary:

[Cruise]

Also note the Buckland Park development is outside of the UGB.

[rhino]

Thanks for that CC

[crawf]

Great find, Though what is the black line?

[Cruise]

could be semi rural area, dunno really

[Cruise]

Also that pic should really have its own sticky thread dont you think? (along with the CBD heights limits map)

[Bulldozer]

Same with the southern changes, there's meant to be open space to preserve the semi-rural character. It's pissed off a lot of people down there. Read in the local rag last week that Onkaparinga Council is going to oppose any new development unless the government puts in infrastructure that's already badly needed.

[Ho Really]

Great find, Though what is the black line?

That should be the metro area local council limit (or something named like that). Anything outside that are country councils.

Cheers

[duke]

A NORTHERN Adelaide council wants to give away hundreds of blocks of prime residential land to help ease the housing affordability crisis.

The state's fastest-growing council area - Salisbury - will identify up to "several hundred" blocks to give to home buyers.

Under the Salisbury plan, new landholders will have to pay only for the cost of their newly-built home and will get the council-owned land without charge.

However, they will be required to pay the council a share of the property's total value if it is sold later.

The Real Estate Institute of SA said the housing affordability plan, the first of its kind in Australia, has worked well in the U.S. and Britain.

http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/stor ... 01,00.html


Hopefully more councils can do things like this to boost existing areas rather than just keep pushing out. The land is there, why not use it.

[rhino]

It depends on how much land the council owns. Tony Zappia (mayor of Salisbury) said this morning that the Salisbury Council owns more land than it needs, so it can offer this deal. The same may not be true for all other councils, and unfortunately, it is probably more true for the councils out at the extremities of the urban area. It's probably cost-prohibitive for councils to actively purchase land to be able to offer a deal like this, except further out where land is cheaper.

Having said that, Well Done to Salisbury Council for biting the bullet and doing something positive towards housing affordability.

[Norman]

Yes, well done to Salisbury. We have to remember in the Adelaide Hills it's more difficult as the ground is very hilly and too steep in some places to build, while others are simply unusable or covered by National Park legislation.

[duke]

Yes, well done to Salisbury. We have to remember in the Adelaide Hills it's more difficult as the ground is very hilly and too steep in some places to build, while others are simply unusable or covered by National Park legislation.

I remember seeing something a few years ago about how people wanted to build more on the hills. The government said that there was to be no development on the face of the hills because they wanted to protect the look of them.
So this is possibly more land that could be developed if they were not concerned about the 'look'. There isn't really much to look at at the moment in my opinion anyway. Its a dark green color sometimes with smoke coming out of it..
Could do with a Hollywood style "ADELAIDE" sign on top I think