A three-person panel can take a development away from your council, and it meets in private
What changed
The Housing Delivery Authority — a three-person panel — can recommend that a housing development be declared "State significant". If it is, your council no longer assesses it. It applies to developments worth over $60 million in Greater Sydney and $30 million in regional NSW. Since early 2025 it has recommended over 300 proposals, covering more than 102,000 homes. Councils say the panel meets behind closed doors, without regard to their local planning rules, and that residents get less time to respond.
Was this put to voters?
No. The Authority was created by the government in December 2024, twenty-one months after the March 2023 state election. It was not part of what was taken to voters.
How it’s going where you live
Pick your electorate and this will say what it would take for the number here to be bigger than the margin your seat was won by — which is the number your member can check for themselves.
Where do you stand on this decision?
Not open for responses yet.
Euthyna has not found a citable document behind this decision yet, so it is not being put to anyone.
Who has responded
Most responses counted here are simulated — nobody was asked for them. Yours would be real and counted.
Voting has not opened on this decision yet.
This decision applies across 128 council areas. Nobody has responded yet.
Areas covered
No election margins are published for council areas here, so there is nothing to compare these numbers against yet.
- Albury0 residents
- Armidale0 residents
- Ballina0 residents
- Balranald0 residents
- Bathurst0 residents
- Bayside (NSW)0 residents
- Bega Valley0 residents
- Bellingen0 residents
- Berrigan0 residents
- Blacktown0 residents
- Bland0 residents
- Blayney0 residents
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25, or half the number it would take to matter there, whichever is fewer. In a small area a handful of answers can identify who gave them. Only people enrolled to vote are counted against a margin; everyone who lives here is counted as a resident. Margins are from the last election and change at a redistribution.
The record
Read the document itself →What you can do about this
Across 1 decision, 401 people in 64 electorates have answered this question.
Should a decision that overrides local planning rules require the consent of the community it affects?
This decision is one piece of evidence. The question stands on its own, and every decision like it adds to the same total. Your answer counts once per parliamentary term, not once per decision — and you do not have to answer the decision above to answer this.
Choose where you live, further up, before answering.
What would actually change this
A state government changing the pathway it created, or a council-by-council refusal loud enough to make the pathway more expensive than it is worth. This is the standing question where the number matters most locally: a state minister reads a statewide total, but a local member reads their own suburb.
Euthyna publishes what people say so the decision-makers who can act on it can see it. It does not tell anyone how to vote and does not run campaigns.