Local governments in western Sydney earmarked for thousands of new homes are resisting calls from other councils, including Randwick and Ku-ring-gai, to use the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to lower targets for housing development.
Sydney councils are divided over whether targets to build houses should be lowered because of the COVID-19 crisis."Population forecasters predict that COVID-19 will have some negative impact on migration in the short term, however Liverpool remains one of Australia’s key growth areas," he said.
Councils such as Cumberland City say support for the targets depends on "smart planning and developments are going up in the right location".
_andrew ChristouSteve COVID19 is NOT an excuse to lower targets. Population will just not grow as predicted. Lower birth rates, higher death rates, less immigration. Get used to it. Councils are drunk from the NSW government's poisoned chalice of perpetual growth to collect more rates