NSW Premier announces plan to build residential development with 97 homes on former site of Bega TAFE
ABCThe New South Wales government has announced it will transform a disused TAFE college on the state's far south coast into 97 dwellings. Key points: The NSW government has announced plans to build 97 houses in Bega on the state's far south coast The social housing priority waitlist has increased by 56 per cent in the region NSW Premier Chris Minns visited Bega to make the announcement The site is in the town of Bega, on about eight hectares of land that has sat idle since the college was relocated in 2021. "It doesn't begin and end here, we are looking at converting government land with a minimum 30 per cent of social affordable housing across the state," he said. The Premier said there had been a 56 per cent increase in the social housing priority waitlist in the Bega area. "We have the lowest availability of rentals in NSW, as well as an increasing list of waiting times for social housing," Dr Holland said.
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