Housing grants offered to locals who build

By Samantha Elley

As a way of helping to stimulate the local housing market

Lismore City Council are currently offering housing grants of $15,000 to eligible landowners to stimulate the construction of new affordable homes in a range of six categories.

In the wake of the frst Lismore Housing Expo, held last weekend, the council have shown their determination to get people building, providing homes for owners and renters.

“To be able to provide more rental properties, they have to be built frst,” Mayor Steve Krieg said at a media conference last week.

With that in mind, a total of 80 grants are currently available on a ‘frst-come-frst-serve’ basis until such time as the pool of available funds, $1.2 million, is fully committed. There are six (6) categories available for the housing grants.

1. Existing landowners who build any of the following housing types on their land within the Lismore LGA, that is in addition to an existing dwelling.

• A secondary dwelling

• A small dual occupancy with a maximum of two bedrooms and <115m2 of foor space

• A tiny home (nonmoveable)

• A manufactured home

• The relocation of an existing dwelling from a food affected lot

2. First home buyers who purchases vacant land to build any new home, or relocate a food affected dwelling within the Lismore LGA.

3. An owner / occupier of a food affected house in Lismore who wants to relocate their existing house to another site within the Lismore LGA, as long as they don’t own any other residential property.

4. A homeowner who has accepted a buyback offer from the NRRC and wants to build a new house on another site within the Lismore LGA, again as long as they do not own any other residential property.

5. Any registered Community Housing Provider or Indigenous Community Housing Organisation who build new housing within the Lismore LGA, excluding the projects on council-owned land at Bristol Circuit and Cynthia Wilson Drive.

6. Any developer of new multi-dwelling housing, residential fat building or co-living housing within the Lismore LGA that agrees to enter into a Voluntary Planning Agreement with council to have the housing managed by a Community Housing Provided for a minimum of 15 years as affordable rental housing. Eligibility criteria must be met and can be supplied by Lismore City Council. An application form is available on council’s website and an administration fee applies.

A housing grant dashboard will be created on council’s website showing the total pool of money that is available, how many applications have been received, how many have been accepted and the amount that remains

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Any DA, CDC or Section 68 application that has been lodged on the NSW Planning Portal but not determined on July 1, 2023 will be eligible to apply. Any application for new housing that has already been determined on that date will not be considered.

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We warmly invite you to a Community Drop In Session to discover more about the Summerville Solar Farm, provide us with your feedback and nd out how to make a submission.

* Monday 27th November 2023

* Rappville Community Hall, 3 Lyons Street, Rappville

* Anytime between 3.30pm and 6pm