2021-12-13 GC Agenda - Item 8 -Attachment 1 - Housing Needs Assessment

       circumstances. The movable dwelling would be able to be removed and or relocated to
       another site when required. The land is able to be the subject of a new application and or
       returned to its original state once the movable dwelling is no longer required.
       Byron Bay Council propose to insert a new clause into their Local Environmental Plan that
       would define “tiny housing” and make it permissible with consent on any land that is owned
       by Council. Constraints like flooding or bushfire will be addressed through the existing
       development assessment framework. To date they are yet to get approval from NSW
       Department of Planning, Infrastructure and Environment to make the LEP amendment.


       The Tiny Homes Foundation pilot project at Gosford commenced in 2015 and through the
       partnership with the local Council, community housing provider, local employment and
       training agency and others, residents finally moved in during 2018. The experience and
       learnings of this project have been used to generate a toolkit for replicating the program
       elsewhere.
       In Geelong, Deakin University has partnered with local technology company Flow and
       Samaritan House Geelong to develop a prefabricated one-bedroom unit, measuring 4 x 10
       metres which includes a living space and bedroom. This model is the first of seven
       independent living units to be installed as transitional houses for men experiencing
       homelessness.


       Harris Transportable Housing Project in Melbourne’s inner west demonstrates how unused
       government land can be repurposed to create safe, stable homes for people who urgently
       need them. The project is a partnership between Launch Housing and a $4-million donation
       from philanthropists Geoff Harris and his son, Brad Harris, plus funding from the Victorian
       Property Fund. The project is using nine parcels of vacant VicRoads land in Footscray and
       Maidstone to create 57 studio-sized tiny homes for people with a chronic experience of
       homelessness. With 6-12 homes on each site, small communities are created where tenants
       can support each other.
       The sites have been leased to Launch for a five-year term for a nominal rent. The first site,
       on Ballarat Road in the Melbourne suburb of Maidstone, is reserved for an eventual road
       widening project. The tenants of the Harris units are welcome to use them permanently, with
       VicRoads required to issue a 12-month vacancy notice if it needs the land back.


Noosa Council, at its meeting of 16 September 2021 resolved to enter into a three year freehold
lease with YouTurn Ltd over Lot 69 RP41223 at 16 Earl Street Tewantin (behind the neighbourhood
centre) for the purpose of siting two prefabricated, relocatable Tiny Homes to be managed as
supported short-term transitional accommodation for young, vulnerable people.
While dwellings or a relocatable home park is not consistent within the zone of the land the Planning
Regulations 2017, Schedule 6, Part 2, s2(1) prohibits a planning scheme from making a class 1 or
2 building providing support services and temporary accommodation for persons escaping domestic
violence assessable development.




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