DOSSIER / MECHANISMPLANNING INSTRUMENT
The Housing SEPP
Status State lever
The state planning policy whose infill affordable-housing bonus can add height and yield over local controls and heritage listing.
- Last on record
- 2026-07
- Named in
- 4 articles
- Across
- 3 cases
Named in 4 articles across 3 cases 8 connections: mechanisms 3, councils and panels 4, courts 1
Key figure on file
Housing SEPP
The state planning instrument whose co-living bonus allows up to 10 per cent more floor space than the local maximum, in zones where residential flat… State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021, s 68; NSW Planning Portal
Fig. 01 / Where this name appears
Waverley22 articles →RandwickHousing SEPPThe state planning instrument whose co-living bonus allows up to 10 per cent more floor space than the local maximum, in zones where residential fl…1 article →Shellharbour11 article →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled
Fig. 02 / On the record
- Housing SEPPThe state planning instrument whose co-living bonus allows up to 10 per cent more floor space than the local maximum, in zones where residential flat buildings are permitted. Off-campus student housing uses the co-living provisions.Source: State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing) 2021, s 68; NSW Planning PortalBeds, not homes →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled
How we know
The sources of the 4 articles that name the Housing SEPP, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about the Housing SEPP.
Evidence strength · 18 sources across 4 articles
- Primary
- the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
- Masthead
- a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
- Trade
- specialist or trade press
3 of 4 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded
Fig. 03 / Named together
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑07Auto-assembled
02 / Connected in the graph
Mechanisms 3
The Democratic BypassMECHANISM · 4Deemed RefusalMECHANISM · 3Voluntary Planning AgreementsMECHANISM · 3Councils & panels 4
Randwick City CouncilLOCAL COUNCIL · 3Waverley CouncilLOCAL COUNCIL · 3Sydney Eastern City Planning PanelSTATE PLANNING PANEL · 3Shellharbour City CouncilLOCAL COUNCIL · 1Courts 1
The Land and Environment CourtCOURT · 303 / The evidence chain
Waverley
01The two-step: a rezoning more than doubled this Oxford Street site and delisted four heritage terraces, then the state stacked a tower on topWAVERLEY · · E402Deemed-refusal drift: nine-figure projects decided by the court, not the council residents electedWAVERLEY · Randwick
01Beds, not homesRANDWICK · · E2Shellharbour
02'Backroom decisions': Shellharbour widens CEO oversightSHELLHARBOUR · · E4