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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Jasper Lindell

'Urgent' action on planning reform to allow more houses adopted by ACT Labor

The ACT Labor party has adopted an urgent policy position to allow more housing in the territory. Picture by Dion Georgopoulos

The ACT government will face new pressure to overhaul suburban planning rules to allow more houses in Canberra, after the ACT Labor conference endorsed a motion calling for urgent zoning reform.

The ACT Labor party adopted a policy of ultimately overhauling zoning to allow medium density housing in all areas previously zoned RZ1, which currently allows only detached housing.

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