Housing Diversity Guide
The purpose of this Housing Diversity Guide is to identify the key planning and design principles that are essential to delivering high quality housing diversity. Landcom’s goal is to make it easier, faster and more cost effective to deliver a wide range of housing types in new and established communities across the Sydney metropolitan area and NSW.
Housing diversity provides a mix of dwellings that meet the different needs of a wide range of people in society. This Housing Diversity Guide has been developed by Landcom to encourage housing diversity in new residential areas. The planning and design principles for housing diversity in new areas can also be applied to established areas.
Housing diversity is important because it enables neighbourhoods to provide for changing demographics. It also helps address housing affordability issues and it provides for different lifestyle choices and life stages including young families, single people and retirees. Having a wide range of dwellings makes it easier to meet the diverse housing needs of home owners, renters, investors, families, one or two person households and first home buyers.
Ultimately, housing diversity helps create sustainable and diverse communities. Landcom welcomes feedback on the Guide. We will make amendments as required.