Estimates - Housing and Planning - Development Assessment Panels

Ms Burnet - Minister, it's a tough market for housing. It's hard for the government to get social and affordable housing out of the ground. One of the planning changes that could assist here is to mandate inclusionary zoning, which is a much more effective way of getting these houses out of the ground rather than Development Assessment Panels (DAP), which have proved very unpopular and have failed twice to pass the parliament.

Many of the housing stakeholders and peak bodies have recommended this occur. Mandatory inclusion rezoning schemes are perceived to be fairer, as they apply to all redevelopment and can be factored in upfront to the price paid for land. South Australia is an example of where it has been very effective at increasing the number of social and affordable housing there. Minister, why aren't you actively considering this for reform, noting that you have previously said you could consider any option to fix the housing crisis.

Mr VINCENT - Thank you. I'll seek some information from Sean on that.

Mr McPHAIL - Certainly. Through you, minister. I think mandatory inclusionary zoning is something that's been raised a number of times through various reforms. There are changes that could be made in the planning system, but I think there's a much broader program that needs to be looked at in terms of whether - how that would operate in Tasmania and how you would do that. That's getting well beyond what I can really advise on. But certainly, in terms of various mechanisms that we operate at the moment that sort of go into that sort of inclusion rezoning side of things, is the housing land supply order process; that rezoning process in which it vests land with Homes Tasmania, that enables a proportion of land to be developed for social and affordable housing. That is one mechanism that is used at the moment. But I think there's a much broader program that would need to be looked at in terms of how that it would operate in Tasmania, particularly with the economics of building houses in Tasmania compared to certain other jurisdictions as well.

Ms Burnet - Minister, you and I have had this kind of conversation before, with my interest in getting more housing through that transit corridor of the northern suburbs in Hobart. Because it's a policy position, would you consider using that as a pilot project in some form or another. It might be Dowsing Point, for argument's sake. But looking at having a model to test how inclusionary zoning might be effective in Tasmania?

Mr VINCENT - Yes, we are looking at a few different ways when we have areas, a greenfield area, that we can plan and scope it much better to make more efficient use of the land. But I am more than happy to revisit what you've just suggested and have another look at that and how it might work.