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Approvals turbocharged in bid to tackle housing crisis

NSW is making sweeping changes to overhaul its planning and housing approval systems. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

It's taken nearly 50 years, but a state is vowing to make new homes a reality via a more efficient planning system, with advocates urging authorities to seize momentum behind the "significant" changes.

Councils in NSW will get only 10 days to dispute small variations of development applications that normally take months to be processed.

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