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The Fifth Estate
15 September 2026 · Opinion
NSW’s billion dollar infrastructure funding leak
A 16-year-old NSW policy is constraining the local infrastructure funding available for new housing.
The 2010 thresholds that trigger IPART review of s7.11 plans have never been indexed, while land and construction costs have climbed. Jonathon estimates the gap has suppressed between $360 million and $1.24 billion in local contributions capacity, and sets out how resetting and indexing the thresholds would fix it.