Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) supports the Federal, State, and Local Government in their policy development, and hopes that the standards underpinning policy settings are appropriately set up to enable the efficient development of land for the best possible outcomes for our communities.
Unfortunately, the changes being put forward by Standards Australia on the proposed changes to the “Parking facilities, Part 1: Off-street car parking” standard, currently under consultation by Standards Australia, appear a retrograde step, and come at the worst possible time for the development and construction industry in Australia.
We do not support increasing the length of off-street car parking spaces from 5.4m to 5.6m. It will involve considerable additional cost from additional space required for carparking and reduce available space for other amenity. Ultimately, this change further erodes project viability at a time when industry has experienced an annual rise in construction costs across the industry of more than 17%, weighted across all capital cities.
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