THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING UNDERTOOK A REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT PANELS RECENTLY AND FEEDBACK WAS MIXED. Development Assessment Panels (DAPs) were introduced into Western Australia in 2011 with the objective of increasing transparency, consistency and reliability in decision making on complex development applications. Controversial at the time, the panels included representatives from local government as […]
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Domain Demand for housing is booming across Perth, with new figures from the Urban Development Institute of Australia in WA revealing a 92 per cent increase in the number of new land sales over the past 12 months. According to the institute’s Urban Development Index for the December quarter 2023, new land sales in the […]
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GENERATION Y PREFERENCES ARE CHANGING THE PROPERTY WE DEVELOP The influence of the Gen Y on the property market, and life in general, is now very obvious in the USA. Ironically Gen Y’s reflect some of the idealism of the 1969’s and 70’s; less about possessions and more about the experience. Of course the latest […]
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