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Duncan Murray

Premier backs Sydney's 'demonised' housing developers

NSW needs to build 75,000 new homes a year to meet its target agreed to at national cabinet. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

Development applications could be automatically approved in councils that don't cooperate with government plans to increase Sydney's urban density, NSW Premier Chris Minns has warned.

Speaking at a lunch hosted by the NSW Property Council of Australia on Wednesday, Mr Minns said property developers had been demonised by some in politics which had undermined public confidence.

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