❓ A parliamentary question addresses the progress of a residential land release in Halls Creek, including costs, housing availability, and alternative housing solutions. The Minister provides updates on the project's status, costs, and explores innovative housing options.
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HALLS CREEK - HOUSING
It is now 16 months since the state government announced plans for a 47-lot residential land release at the Dinner Camp or Bridge Street locality of Halls Creek. (1) How many of the proposed 47 residential lots have been completed at the Bridge Street project, and what has been the average cost of each lot? (2) What is the current estimate of construction costs per dwelling for the subdivision, and when will the first dwelling be completed? (3) Approximately how many families are currently on the housing waiting list at Halls Creek? (4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
It is now 16 months since the state government announced plans for a 47-lot residential land release at the Dinner Camp or Bridge Street locality of Halls Creek. (1) How many of the proposed 47 residential lots have been completed at the Bridge Street project, and what has been the average cost of each lot? (2) What is the current estimate of construction costs per dwelling for the subdivision, and when will the first dwelling be completed? (3) Approximately how many families are currently on the housing waiting list at Halls Creek? (4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS
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I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(1) How many of the proposed 47 residential lots have been completed at the Bridge Street project, and what has been the average cost of each lot? (2) What is the current estimate of construction costs per dwelling for the subdivision, and when will the first dwelling be completed? (3) Approximately how many families are currently on the housing waiting list at Halls Creek? (4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(2) What is the current estimate of construction costs per dwelling for the subdivision, and when will the first dwelling be completed? (3) Approximately how many families are currently on the housing waiting list at Halls Creek? (4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(3) Approximately how many families are currently on the housing waiting list at Halls Creek? (4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(1) How many of the proposed 47 residential lots have been completed at the Bridge Street project, and what has been the average cost of each lot? (2) What is the current estimate of construction costs per dwelling for the subdivision, and when will the first dwelling be completed? (3) Approximately how many families are currently on the housing waiting list at Halls Creek? (4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(2) What is the current estimate of construction costs per dwelling for the subdivision, and when will the first dwelling be completed? (3) Approximately how many families are currently on the housing waiting list at Halls Creek? (4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(3) Approximately how many families are currently on the housing waiting list at Halls Creek? (4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(4) The minister will be aware of the establishment of a 70-dwelling village at Karratha for $5 million by Perth company Blue Ridge to ease a chronic housing shortage. Has the minister considered this concept for Halls Creek to help deal with the chronic overcrowding there? Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
Several members interjected. Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
Mrs M.H. ROBERTS replied: I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
I thank the member for the question and for some short notice of it. Perhaps the member is unaware, but the subdivision in question is a LandCorp subdivision, so the question about the actual cost per lot of subdivision and so forth is probably better addressed to the Minister for Planning and Infrastructure. (1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(1) Of the 47 residential lots that were proposed, 10 have been completed, nine of which are for the Department of Housing and Works’ use. Seventeen lots are well underway with civil works, and there are 20 lots in the planning stage. (2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(2) In answer to the question about the costs to the Department of Housing and Works: one dwelling, built for Homeswest, has come in at a price of $378 000. Six dwellings have been built for government regional officers’ housing at an average cost of $511 000 per dwelling. (3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(3) Halls Creek has about 65 families on the waiting list. (4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
(4) The Department of Housing and Works is constantly assessing all kinds of options for innovative and cheaper housing. The member may be aware that I recently launched a Perrinepod, in company with the member for Perth, and that technology has a lot going for it. I also announced that the Department of Housing and Works would look at some innovative housing options for 50 houses that we are building in the metropolitan area to test different house-building techniques other than brick and tile construction. Some of those construction methods looked very promising because they cut down the construction time from about 40 weeks to some 14 weeks, and also because the cost of that housing is somewhere closer to the $130 000 to $140 000 mark per house. Those costs will probably be higher in the north of the state, where all construction costs are higher, and quite often there is a set-up cost to get those housing building techniques in place. I understand that many of those techniques have been tested in other places around the world, and indeed in Queensland and others part of Western Australia. Many of them have a cyclone rating. I would be very keen to take up some of those options. Last time I was in Kununurra, I opened some concrete houses. They are part of an innovative project that involved training quite a number of Aboriginal people to construct those houses. We are looking at those more innovative techniques. We want to be able to deliver effective, appropriate and cheaper housing more quickly. We are certainly looking at that concept.
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