Planning reform, land release and the supply of housing

Summary

This research will establish the link between land use planning policies and mechanisms and the form of housing supplied. It will examine details of both planning policy and housing supply in the state of Victoria over a time period covering two significant policy regime shifts. The research is confined to metropolitan Melbourne, but the results will be applicable to other Australian cities, most of which have adopted similar policies.


Project Number: 30590
Research Theme: Housing_Affordability
Project Leader: Goodman, Robin
Funding Year: 2009
Research Centre: RMIT

Description

The key Research Questions are:

  1. Do changes to land use planning policies and mechanisms impact on the types of housing supplied, particularly in new release areas?
  2. Are policies designed to bring about urban consolidation affecting the type of housing being built, and if so in what way?
  3. Is there a correlation between planning policies and changes to house prices?
  4. To what extent and in what way do government policies impact on decisions on housing supply made by the development industry?


Methods utilized will include:

Detailed property transaction records will be utilised to identify all vacant land sold since 1990. These records will be combined with a confidentialised extract from the Statewide Valuations database to enable us to identify what has subsequently been constructed on the properties, using information compiled at the point of valuation as well as at the point of last sale. This will identify details such as land and house size, type and valuation. Following this, detailed semi-structured interviews will be conducted with major representatives from the development industry and local government planning managers to establish key factors, including government policy regimes, which affect decision making on issues of housing supply.

 

 

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