The WA survey also measured appetite for growth locally. Nearly half of respondents (49%) said they would support a small increase of up to 10% more homes in their area, while only 16% backed growth of 11-20%. Larger increases drew little support, with 6% backing growth of 21-50% and 1% supporting increases above 50%.<\/p>\n
Apartments face a scale problem, not a stigma<\/p>\n
Sentiment toward apartments was split fairly evenly, with 37% of voters positive, 38% neutral and 25% negative. Support fell once project size increased: 40% would accept developments of up to 50 units locally, only 11% would accept more, and 32% would not accept any units at all.<\/p>\n
Building height carried a similar effect. Low-rise projects of one to three storeys drew support from 30% of voters, falling to 12% for mid-rise buildings and 7% for high-rise towers. Respondents nominated on-site parking (43%), height limits (34%) and green space or communal areas (32%) as the factors most likely to make apartment developments acceptable.<\/p>\n
Detached housing remained the preferred option among WA respondents, with 59% comfortable having this type built in their local area, compared with 39% for townhouses and 29% for social and affordable housing. Marocchi said most West Australians want more homes built and better affordability outcomes, but want growth delivered in a way that matches community expectations on height, design and local amenity.<\/p>\n
Results from the Western AustraliaNOW survey carry a maximum margin of error of \u00b12.5% at the 95% confidence level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The WA survey also measured appetite for growth locally. Nearly half of respondents (49%) said they would support…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,11152,398249,44,3439],"class_list":["post-824572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-housing-market","tag-housing-sentiment","tag-news","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}