- Nine regional councils secure funding to update their planning schemes to deliver more housing.
- Funding is part of the Crisafulli Government's commitment to resetting the planning partnership with local government.
- $1.4 million investment to further enhance local planning schemes and address housing needs.
- The Crisafulli Government is delivering a fresh start and more Queenslanders a place to call home.
The Crisafulli Government has approved the next tranche of funding under the $12.5 million Scheme Supply Fund, further delivering on our election commitment to boost housing affordability and supply to deliver more Queenslanders a place to call home.
The Scheme Supply Fund is just one example of how the Crisafulli Government is resetting partnerships with councils following a decade of the former Labor Government steamrolling councils and local communities with bad planning decisions.
Councils that have been approved under the recent round of funding include:
- Balonne Shire Council
- Goondiwindi Regional Council
- Napranum Aboriginal Shire Council
- Paroo Shire Council
- Cassowary Coast Regional Council
- Livingstone Shire Council
- Lockyer Valley Regional Council
- Mareeba Regional Council
- Somerset Regional Council
The Scheme Supply Fund has now approved $9.6 million in funding to local councils with more funding rounds to follow.
This announcement is another building block in the Crisafulli Government's plan to deliver more Queenslanders a place to call home – after a decade of Labor inaction - including scrapping stamp duty on new builds for first home buyers, unlocking church and charity-owned land for more community housing and empowering first homeowners to rent out rooms without facing financial penalty.
Deputy Premier and Minister for State Development, Infrastructure and Planning, Jarrod Bleijie, said the latest round of funding demonstrated the Crisafulli Government's continued commitment to fixing Labor's Housing Crisis by fast-tracking housing solutions and unlocking land for development.
"After housing lot approvals declined by 29 per cent under Labor, the Crisafulli Government is backing local councils to unlock more homes for Queenslanders by fast-tracking shovel ready infrastructure projects through our $2 billion Residential Activation Fund and supporting more approvals through local planning scheme reform," Deputy Premier Bleijie said.
"This fund is helping Councils to deliver critical housing for Queenslanders by resetting planning partnerships with local governments and scrapping Labor's red tape.
"With this funding, we're empowering even more councils to reform their planning schemes, remove barriers to development, and ensure that housing projects can move from approval to construction faster than ever.
"This is about building the homes Queenslanders need now and into the future, and we're on track to meet our target of one million homes by 2044."
