North-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:45): (1648) My question today is for the Minister for Housing and Building, and it relates to the high-rise tower that is being developed in Greensborough above the Savers on Para Road. This housing development has been reported as being made up of more than 200 one- and two-bedroom apartments. It has also been reported that the approval for this apartment tower was fast-tracked by your government without proper community consultation and has even been approved without meeting some of the government’s own minimum standards for having decent-sized, livable homes. Residents in my electorate have raised concerns about the lack of larger three- and four-bedroom apartments that would be suitable for families. There is great need in the area for social and affordable housing for families, and it is a huge disappointment that they seemingly have been excluded from this new tower. Minister, how will larger families be able to make use of this new social and affordable housing development, given it has been approved without suitably sized homes?