Livable Housing Design Standards in New South Wales – Summer Foundation submission
May 2025
Livable Housing Design Standards in New South Wales – Summer Foundation submission
Tags: accessible housing
Description:
The Summer Foundation welcomes the opportunity to make this submission to inform the New South Wales (NSW) approach to the Livable Housing Design Standards (LHDS) in the National Construction Code (NCC) 2022.
The Summer Foundation strongly supports the adoption of Option 3 (Adopt the LHDS with exemptions). This is consistent with the NSW Building Better Homes campaign position. The Summer Foundation believes this represents a reasonable and pragmatic approach for NSW to join the rest of the nation in delivering mandatory accessibility standards in all new builds. This will also allow the government to consider reasonable time-limited exemptions for NSW in consultation with industry and the community sector.