An unlawful federal government bottleneck for housing and construction has been holding up 30,000 building approvals with 1500 pages of the most complex piece of green gobbledegook legislation in the Canberra armoury.
Construction companies and builders have to submit building plans to local government which then has to hand these blueprints over to the Canberra bureaucracy to be assessed under the National Construction Code before approval.
Treasury documents leaked to the ABC confirmed the government’s subsequent move to make changes to the NCC hoping to speed up housing approvals as discussed at the Economic Reform Roundtable.
The advice also includes a proposal to use AI to cut environmental red and green tape and clear a backlog of 30,000 housing approvals being assessed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity (EPBC) Act.
Housing Minister Clare O’Neill said on Saturday the NCC and EPBC legislation would be bypassed until 2029 in an attempt to clear the backlog of applications.
The EPBC Act refers to all living things, including plants and animals, habitats and places that need protecting as “matters of national environmental significance”.
The federal government’s claim to build 1.2 million homes by 2029 is a deliberate lie promulgated by WEF graduate and Labor Minister Clare O’Neill, the same woman who deliberately held up processing of a visa application for Donald Trump Jnr when he was to take part in a national speaking tour with UK politician Nigel Farage in 2023, causing him to cancel the visit.
The federal government’s target, as part of the National Housing Accord, to build 1.2 million new, well-located homes over five years, from mid-2024 to mid-2029 is unattainable.
There are not enough registered builders in the country to build anywhere near that number according to the construction industry and supply chains are in disarray with most building materials having to be imported.
The federal government is Constitutionally out of order with the NCC which had been developed to stymie home construction by binding builders with endless, costly red and green tape.
The National Construction Code (NCC) and the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC Act) add costs to housing by mandating higher energy efficiency standards and increasing upfront expenses for homes that meet these requirements.
The NCC’s updated requirements, such as the 7-star energy rating for new builds, increase building material costs and necessitate design changes to achieve energy savings. The EPBC Act adds costs through expert consultant fees, holding costs, mitigation efforts, and offsets for developments impacting protected matters.
Constitutional analyst Peter Gargan advises the federal government has no Constitutional authority to be involved in housing approvals which he says are a state responsibility.
“This is a clear cut case of a federal government acting out of line to force its unwanted green ideology onto housing adding billions of dollars unnecessarily to building costs,” Mr Gargan said.
Here is a compliance section mandated under the NCC: https://ncc.abcb.gov.au/editions/ncc-2022/adopted/volume-three/a-governing-requirements/part-a2-compliance-ncc
Cairns News would advise intending new home builders in regional areas to ignore these unlawful demands and just build-baby-build!
