Outdated minimum block sizes causing oversized housing headache
Australia could do worse than take a read through New Zealand's planning codes and subdivision rules to potentially triple the availability of new homes in our major cities.
Size matters if the housing crisis is to be resolved. (Image source: Shutterstock.com)
Is getting rid of minimum lot sizes the solution we’ve all be looking for to solve the housing crisis?
For decades councils and state governments have held tight to what some would now consider to be outdated notions that once a block of land is under a certain size you shouldn’t be allowed to build on it.
That type of thinking strongly entrenched the 400 square metre (sqm) suburban block as the standard. Before that, it was the 600sqm suburban…
