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Less planning, more development? Housing and urban reform discourses in Australia

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  • Nicole Gurran
  • Kristian Ruming

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This paper examines how particular interests shape urban policy debate and reform in Australia. With a particular emphasis on proposed planning system reforms in the nation’s largest state of New South Wales, we examine written submissions from development industry sectors, resident groups, and professional associations. We then compare these submissions to government responses, finding these responses heavily reflect industry narratives. In the context of an ongoing microeconomic reform agenda oriented towards deregulation and competition policy, housing development is framed as central to delivering economic growth, while the planning system is portrayed as a constraint holding back investment and new housing production. Through this prism, a series of rhetorical strategies reframe community concerns about housing affordability and the impact of new development to fit the growth agenda, while environmental and social considerations are largely sidelined.

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  • Nicole Gurran & Kristian Ruming, 2016. "Less planning, more development? Housing and urban reform discourses in Australia," Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 19(3), pages 262-280, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jecprf:v:19:y:2016:i:3:p:262-280
    DOI: 10.1080/17487870.2015.1065184
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    1. Milo Costanza-van den Belt & Tayanah O’Donnell & Robert Webb & Eleanor Robson & Robert Costanza & Jiaqian Ling & Sarah Crowe & Hao Han, 2021. "Community Preferences for Urban Systems Transformation in Australia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-23, April.
    2. Saberi, Meead & Wu, Hongzhi & Amoh-Gyimah, Richard & Smith, Jonathan & Arunachalam, Dharmalingam, 2017. "Measuring housing and transportation affordability: A case study of Melbourne, Australia," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 65(C), pages 134-146.
    3. Ren Hu & Nicholas J. Gill, 2023. "Neoliberal peri-urban economies and the predicament of dairy farmers: a case study of the Illawarra region, New South Wales," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 40(2), pages 599-617, June.
    4. Chris Gibson & Crystal Legacy & Dallas Rogers, 2023. "Deal-making, elite networks and public–private hybridisation: More-than-neoliberal urban governance," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(1), pages 183-199, January.
    5. Chunhui Liu & Weixuan Song, 2019. "Perspectives of Socio-Spatial Differentiation from Soaring Housing Prices: A Case Study in Nanjing, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(9), pages 1-16, May.
    6. Peter Phibbs & Nicole Gurran, 2021. "The role and significance of planning in the determination of house prices in Australia: Recent policy debates," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 53(3), pages 457-479, May.
    7. Martin, Chris & Lawson, Julie & Milligan, Vivienne & Hartley, Chris & Pawson, Hal & Dodson, Jago, 2023. "Towards an Australian Housing and Homelessness Strategy: understanding national approaches in contemporary policy," SocArXiv h5tja, Center for Open Science.
    8. Jessica Ferm & Ben Clifford & Patricia Canelas & Nicola Livingstone, 2021. "Emerging problematics of deregulating the urban: The case of permitted development in England," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(10), pages 2040-2058, August.

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