Exactly how much 'missing middle' land is there in the ACT? June 15, 2026 With the ACT Government leaning into the missing middle, you might be interested to know the scale of the opportunity. From ou...

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The ACT Government has released various Community Facility Zone land parcels through an expression of interest process. Urban Intelligence has summarized the opportunity in the table below. Please rea...

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The lease variation charge acts as an infill tax. It will discourage the thousands of decisions that will be required to achieve missing middle development. The intent of LVC is to capture theoretical windfall gains. We believe it should focus on development profit. I won't try and explain everything in the graph below which deconstructs the logic of LVC for a development. But we believe the bit that should be charged is the yellow bit (if it exists for a development), but the green gap is what the government is attempting to charge. (from the ACT Government's 'Planning and Economic Feasibility: Integrating the Missing Middle in RZ1 and RZ2' which can be found at http://bit.ly/47Bcxlq)

In terms of missing middle housing...out of the 137,543 blocks of land in the ACT, 95% of the RZ1 and 85% of the RZ2 blocks are single-dwelling sites. That is approximately 8952 hectares of blocks with one dwelling. (ACT Government, Integrating the Missing Middle in RZ1 and RZ2) I

f you could change one thing to make an impact what would it be? LVC reform, lowering the block size for additional dwellings or easing block consolidation rules?

The ACT recently updated its Development Application statistics for September. 71 DAs were lodged. This is down by 5 compared with the monthly long run average, but up by 11 from August. Year to data ...