Direction 9 A Centre with Housing for All To support Campsie’s diverse population, we need to ensure housing is well designed, appropriately located, and meets the needs and expectations of the community. Housing within the Campsie Town Centre will range from low to medium and high density living. Low and medium density housing will be retained in the north-west and south-east of the Town Centre, whilst new, high density living ranging from three storey walk-up type apartments to high-rise living, will be focused where there is the greatest amenity, around Campsie Station and the centre core, the Cooks River and the medical precinct around Canterbury Hospital. Planning Instruments will mandate the delivery of a range of housing types to suit different needs and lifestyles. Diverse housing will include a mix of sizes, universal design, housing for students, seniors, people with disabilities, families and singles across a range of land use zones. What do we know? · It is important to align housing growth and infrastructure, as a Strategic Centre receiving a Metro Station, Campsie has an important role to play in housing delivery. · Campsie currently has a mix of housing typologies, ranging from low density, single detached houses to medium and high density town houses and apartments. · Some housing, particularly apartment and shop top housing, delivered in Campsie in the past has been of a low quality. The community expect higher quality housing in the centre.
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· Compared to many of the suburbs that surround the centre, Campsie provides lower cost housing options. · Many lower income households live in Campsie. Nearly a third of Campsie households make less than $1,000 a week (< $51,999 per year). · Nearly half of all household in Campsie rent. Renters are more vulnerable to the impacts of housing unaffordability. · Gentrification is an ongoing issue is Campsie, this process can displace existing lower income households for a centre. · The type of household in Campsie are similar to that of CBCity and Greater Sydney, with families being the dominant household type (48%), followed by couples (30%).
as well as quality that will meet the needs of its future community. The Master Plan promotes housing that is of a high quality and sustainable whilst offering the locational amenity of being in one of Greater Sydney’s most dynamic centres. The Master Plan also provides objectives and actions to increase housing supply and deliver affordable rental housing as part of new developments. This will help mitigate the impacts and gentrification and enable very low, low and low-moderate-income households remain in Campsie. Campsie currently provides lower cost housing compared to other neighbouring centres. As Campsie realises its role as a Strategic Centre, house prices are likely to rise, leading to greater instances of housing stress.
· CBCity’s Housing Strategy has identified a need for 5,600 new homes in the Campsie Town Centre with approximately 760 new homes within the node between Canterbury Road and Beamish Street.
The planning system alone is unlikely to be able to address the housing affordability challenges of residents, but an active affordable housing strategy can contribute to a reduction in housing stress.
· It is necessary to increase the capacity of our planning controls in Campsie. Current controls do not have capacity to accommodate targeted dwelling and population growth to 2036.
The Master Plan will also set guidance on providing for the diverse mix of housing typologies, sizes and tenures that cater to the needs of people at all stages of their lives. This will be achieved through objectives in the Local Environmental Plan that aim for a range of housing. Development Control Plan controls will provide minimum requirements for unit mixes and universal design controls for people with disabilities and to allow ageing in place.
What are we proposing? The Master Plan seeks to provide a contemporary approach to planning for housing in the Campsie Town Centre, which meets the needs and expectations of the community. The Master Plan has considered the need for variety and diversity,
Housing stress is defined as households earning in the lowest 40% of the Sydney Metropolitan Area paying rent or mortgage repayments greater than 30% of their household income.
