Tag: Medium density

Election promise to end medium density housing code a backward step: Institute
The NSW Minster for Planning and Housing has announced the winners of a national ideas competition to design medium-density housing.

Tiny terrace houses on smallest freehold lots underway
Could tiny land sizes be a solution to housing density and affordability woes? One Gold Coast development could prove to be a case study.

Attitudes to medium-density living are changing in Sydney and Melbourne
New research finds that an increasing number of people prefer medium-density housing when it is located in established suburbs with good public transport and access to jobs and services.

Medium-density living at heart of government plan for Sydney’s Rhodes peninsula
A draft 20-year masterplan by Roberts Day would see the eastern half of the Rhodes Peninsula in Sydney develop as a medium-density, pedestrian-friendly neighbourhood.

Seven winning ideas for Queensland’s ‘missing middle’
The Queensland government has announced the winners of its Diversity and Density Done Well ideas competition.

Zero-energy, prefab apartment design wins WA medium-density housing competition
David Barr Architects’ modular, prefabricated design has won a WA government agency’s competition to design an affordable, sustainable, medium-density housing project.

South Australia issues draft housing design guidelines
Medium-density housing, communal space and discouraging the over-provision of car parking are discussed in new draft housing guidelines released by ODASA.

Ideas sought for medium-density housing in Queensland
A single-stage competition seeks to generate ideas for affordable medium-density housing options in Queensland.

Winners announced: NSW’s Missing Middle design competition
The NSW Minster for Planning and Housing has announced the winners of a national ideas competition to design medium-density housing.

Ideas competition to design medium density housing in NSW
An open ideas competition designed to road test the NSW government’s draft Medium Density Design Guide has been launched.

NSW government introduces draft design guide for medium-density housing
The NSW government has unveiled a new draft design guide for low-rise, medium-density housing for public comment.