Committee Details

Committee’s report

The committee tabled its Report No. 51, 57th Parliament - Housing Availability and Affordability (Planning and Other Legislation Amendment) Bill 2023 on Friday, 24 November 2023. 

The Bill was passed with amendment on 16 April 2024.

View:    Report

View:    Government Response

About the BILL 

On 11 October 2023, the Hon Dr Steven Miles MP, Deputy Premier, Minister for State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning and Minister Assisting the Premier on Olympic and Paralympic Games Infrastructure introduced the Housing Availability and Affordability (Planning and Other Legislation Amendment) Bill 2023 into the Queensland Parliament. The Bill was referred to the State Development and Regional Industries Committee for detailed consideration.   

View: Explanatory speech
View: Bill 
View: Explanatory Notes 
View: Statement of compatibility 

Call for submissions

Submissions closed on 31 October 2023. Submissions can be viewed under the ‘View Submissions’ tab.

PUBLIC PROCEEDINGS

The committee held a public briefing on the Bill with officers from the Department of State Development, Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning on Monday, 23 October 2023. This was followed by a public hearing with industry stakeholders.

A public hearing was held on Thursday, 9 November 2023.

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Further information

Further information including written briefings, correspondence, response to submissions, transcripts and answers to questions taken on notice are available under the Related Publications tab.

Committee’s report

The committee is due to table its report on 24 November 2023. The report will be published here.

Once the committee’s report has been tabled, the Government has three months to respond to the report’s recommendations (if any). At that time, the Government Response will be published here.

Timeline