A failure to build apartments suitable for families is contributing to urban sprawl while developers are not incentivised to build three-bedroom apartments.
Owning a property will continue to get harder for families of four or more unless Sydney increases its supply of larger apartments.
Philip Oldfield, the head of the University of NSW’s school of built environment, said developers are building apartments primarily for owner-investors, not for people that actually live in apartments. Planning Minister Paul Scully said planning rules should be reviewed periodically to ensure they support the “delivery of the well-located, well-built, well-designed homes that people want to live in”.of new residential buildings in Liverpool led by University of Wollongong urban geographer Nicole Cook found that families preferred large, centrally located apartments over detached, car-dependent dwellings – but there was a lack of larger apartments designed to meet their needs.
Oldfield said these targets were not high enough when you considered that a quarter of apartments in NSW have children living in them. “As they get older, I don’t want to just move out to the suburbs; I would love a three-bedroom unit nearby but there’s too few available and they’re massively unaffordable,” he said.developers were building apartment towers filled with one- and two-bedroom flats that are neither affordable nor suitable for families.Kara Napper lives with husband Dave and their two-year-old son Charlie in a two-bedroom apartment at South Village in Kirrawee.
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