A call has gone out for the Federal Government to take a lead on establishing a national approach to tiny homes across the country.
Bega Valley Shire Council wants Canberra to provide national leadership to support the use of ‘tiny homes’ and other small, affordable dwellings.
Councillors have nominated it as one of three issues to put up as a motion at the upcoming National Local Government General Assembly in the ACT.
Council’s Acting General Manager Ilidia Bolton said we need a coordinated approach to address planning, regulatory and policy barriers that currently limit their approval.
“Essentially, the states are responsible for their own planning, but we are putting this motion on the tiny homes towards the National General Assembly because we really do want to call on the Australian Government to provide leadership to support the use of tiny homes and other small affordable dwellings,” Ms Bolton said.
“We want them working together with the states and territories so that we can have a national approach because we all understand housing’s a crisis across all the whole of Australia,” she said.
“We really hope that a nationally supported approach would just assist with consistency across the whole of Australia so we do hope that from a federal perspective, there will be some action.”
The council is currently locked in a legal battle with a Coolagolite property owner and two tiny house occupants they host. A hearing has been set down for the Land and Environment Court in June.
