NSW Election 2015 Our platform for a more vibrant prosperous and liveable state

NSW Election 2015 – Our platform for a more vibrant, prosperous and liveable stateNSW Premier Mike Baird has helped launch the Property Council’s 2015 Election Policy Platform, which outlines policy proposals to create a more vibrant, prosperous & liveable state. The document was unveiled in front of 6 guests at our Division Lunch with the Premier last Friday.We are presenting the 2015 Election Policy Platform to key policy makers across the political aisle.”The property industry is a crucial pillar of the State’s economy – generating one in 10 jobs in NSW,” NSW Executive Director Glenn Byres said.”Our election platform seeks to build a better climate for investment and promote solutions that will create a more productive and sustainable state.”Features of the platform include:developing a new Metropolitan Strategy with bold growth targets – and empowering the proposed Greater Sydney Commission to deliver on itprogressing an integrated 30-year strategy for employment lands in Western Sydney to capture the upside from a new airport at Badgerys Creeka complete re-write of the State’s planning laws with code assessment a central component of any new systemmodernising local government – with forced amalgamations on the table if councils fail to take up incentives to mergeundertaking a long-term lease of residual energy assets to fund major infrastructurerecycling capital into the next generation of infrastructure projects, particularly the second harbour rail crossingidentifying a rolling schedule of Urban Activation Precincts to help deliver the housing and employment NSW needsengaging in the national tax reform debate with elimination of stamp duty a primary goalensuring NSW plans for the ageing population by encouraging the provision of appropriate, affordable and accessible housing for older people.undertaking a wholesale review of the Mine Subsidence Board’s role in the development approval process for the Newcastle City Centre, anddeveloping a Wollongong Regeneration Framework to encourage strategic investment in the city centre, reactivate challenged precincts, and meet housing and job targets.To view the 2015 Election Policy Platform, please click here.