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In the Final Report – Adequacy of the Regulation of Short-Term Holiday Letting in New South Wales (page 10 of 100) says:
“List of Recommendations and Findings, Recommendation 1, The Committee Recommends that the NSW Government amends:
- a) the Standard Instrument – Principal local Environment Plan to include a definition of short-term rental accommodation in the category of tourist and visitor accommodation
- b) the State Environment Planning Policy (Exempt and Complying Development Codes) 2008 to allow short-term rental accommodation.”
Page 6 of the Report, under the heading “AMEND PLANNING LAWS TO REGULATE SHORT-TERM RENTAL ACCOMMODATION” – goes on to say:
“1.9 Finally, we recommend that STRA be considered a residential use and that without special circumstances, no change of use occurs to trigger any issues associated with the application of the Building Code of Australia (BCA).”
(STRA = Short-Term Rental Accommodation)
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With this, I understand the NSW Parliamentary Hearing Committee is side-stepping National Building Codes of Australia benchmarks and criteria, which would include Fire & Rescue and Disability Access stipulations etc, etc, etc. It also completely ignores NSW Land and Environmentment Court case law.
Don’t think there’s really any need to read the other 98 pages in the Report.
All through the Hearing Committee process MPs were heard to repeat, repeat, repeat: “Short-Term Letting is here to stay”. And to Melbourne-based web platform owners who coach people on how to convert residential apartments into Airbnb rentals, MPs offered their congratulatulations to them for being innovative, while NSW residents who lived through 18 years of short-term lets were excluded from the Hearing process and one can’t read their Submissions, which have been declared by the NSW Parliament as “Confidential”.
I believe this is what one could call ‘a stitch up’.