The NSW Labor government will embark on the biggest rewrite of the state’s planning laws in nearly five decades after months of behind-the-scenes negotiations with the Coalition.

As foreshadowed by the Herald in late May , the overhaul of the laws that shape delivery of housing and infrastructure will enshrine the three-person Housing Delivery Authority in law, which was established in January with the power to send major residential development proposals on a faster route to approval that bypasses local councils.

As the NSW government faces an uphill battle to deliver 377,000 new homes by 2029 as agreed under the National Housing Accord, Premier Chris Minns said the state’s Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 had become “a bottleneck in the state’s ability to build more ho

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