Housing Supply

The Hon. D.J. SPEIRS (Black—Leader of the Opposition) (14:07): Supplementary to the minister: when will work commence on construction of homes at the four locations?

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (14:07): Obviously at Hackham or, as it is now known, Onkaparinga Heights. The first stages of civil work will probably begin at the end of this year. With the other code amendments, we have to get through the code amendment process. It's obvious that you have to get through the code amendment process, then you have to go through a land division process with councils. We are going to let that process be undertaken.

Obviously, land supply is not delivered overnight. You have to do the rezoning through the code amendment process, you have to do all the investigations on traffic, you have to engage councils, you have to actually work out where town centres and roads and all the rest of it are going to be, where the schools are going to be. That is an important process. We are going to do the hard work.

This government has led that work through government-led code amendments for both Concordia and Sellicks Beach. We are confident that we are going to add to building supply, the housing supply. As I said before, we've got 90 other code amendments in the system and over 4,000 hectares under consideration for land supply in this state.