COTA NSW responds to many requests for comment and input to government inquiries, discussion papers, draft strategies, standards and legislation that relate to and affect older people.
Enquiry into Embedded Networks in NSW
12 July 2022
Embedded networks are private electricity and gas networks, typically in apartment blocks, retirement villages and caravan parks, where the owner of a site purchases energy from a retailer and then on-sells it to residents, with issues arising around the charges levied.
Proposed Housing SEPP (State Environmental Planning Policy)
16 March 2022
COTA NSW submission. The proposal reviews and proposes to combine the Affordable Rental Housing SEPP 2009 (ARHSEPP), the Housing for Seniors and People with a Disability 2004 (Seniors SEPP) and the Affordable Housing No 70 SEPP into a new Housing SEPP.