UDIA thanks Wollongong City Council (WCC) for the opportunity to provide comment on its review of Development Control Plan (DCP) Chapter A2, which we acknowledge as part of a suite of reviews into WCC’s DCP.
Through these reviews, UDIA will continue to advocate for a streamlined set of controls that support greater transparency and reduce duplication, enabling greater development certainty particularly in this time of high development cost precarity and frequent legislative change. This is especially relevant in Wollongong, given the impending finalisation of the West Dapto Contributions Plan which will increase local contributions to as much as $80,000 per home.
UDIA expresses some concern with the proposed changes to DCP Chapter A2. As an introductory Chapter, the changes finalised in Chapter A2 will set a precedent for the rest of the DCP Chapters, increasing the importance of getting this Chapter right. While acknowledging that DCPs do not hold legislative weight, UDIA’s members have noted concerns with how the proposed changes to Chapter A2 will function in practicality, potentially compromising a reasonable balance between ESD and project intentions.
We further outline these concerns in more detail in our full submission which can be viewed via the Download button below