The West Australian
Housing Minister John Carey has acknowledged WA has an issue with building density housing after figures revealed just 84 multi-unit dwellings had been approved in the September quarter.
His comments come as WA was the only State to have dwelling approvals fall in the September quarter, with a drop of 2.5 per cent compared to the three months prior, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Every other State recorded an increase in approvals, with the national average at 7.9 per cent increase.
Mr Carey said despite the grim figures, WA was still getting houses on the market.
Mr Carey did acknowledge the issues WA was facing with higher density builds.
“I’ve been on the record that we do have a structural issue here, that is Western Australia has always been weaker in terms of delivering medium to high density projects,” he said.
“We’re continuing to look at further measures that we can boost and streamline to make it easier to get density projects off the ground.”