Density Incentive Grants Scheme

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Eligibility

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Before proceeding with your application, please ensure you are eligible.

You must meet all of the following eligibility criteria to apply for a grant.

Eligible applicants

  1. Applicants must be:

    1. the owner(s) of the land which is the subject of the application and their name(s) must be on the title (please note, a contract of sale or any evidence other than a property search through the Tasmanian Land Titles Office will not be accepted as evidence of ownership); or

    2. a community housing provider that is responsible for the development of land for which Homes Tasmania is the owner.

  2. All title holders, except for Homes Tasmania if the development is being undertaken by a community housing provider, must be named as applicants.

  3. Applicants that are natural persons must be aged over 18 years.

Ineligible applicants

  1. Homes Tasmania is not eligible to apply or receive funding under this program.

    1. A community housing provider is eligible to apply and may receive funding to develop land owned by Homes Tasmania.

Eligible developments

  1. Only one grant will be issued per development approval (i.e., per council permit).

  2. The development approval must not have been used for a prior approved grant under the program.

  3. The minimum number of additional dwellings in a single development for which a grant can be claimed is three.

  4. The cumulative number of dwellings for which an applicant may claim payment is 50.

  5. Applicants may be approved for multiple grants relating to different developments, but cumulative funding per applicant may not exceed the maximum grant allocation of $10,000 per dwelling, up to a maximum of 50 dwellings.

  6. All dwellings, as described in the development approval issued by the relevant council, must be multiple dwellings.

  7. The development site must be located in one of the following areas:

    1. Land that is zoned under the Tasmanian Planning Scheme or the Tasmanian Interim Planning Scheme as:

      1. General Residential;

      2. Inner Residential;

      3. Urban Mixed Use;

      4. Local Business;

      5. General Business;

      6. Central Business; OR

    2. Land that is zoned as one of the following Particular Purpose Zones under the Tasmanian Planning Scheme or the Tasmanian Interim Planning Scheme:

      1. Kangaroo Bay (Clarence Local Provisions Schedule (LPS));

      2. Willow Court (Derwent Valley Interim Planning Scheme (IPS));

      3. Royal Derwent Hospital (Derwent Valley IPS);

      4. University of Tasmania (Sandy Bay Campus) (Hobart IPS);

      5. Port Sorell Waterfront Site (Latrobe LPS);

      6. Inveresk Site (Launceston LPS);

      7. University of Tasmania, Newnham Campus (Launceston LPS); OR

    3. Land that is zoned under the Sullivans Cove Planning Scheme as:
      1. Inner City Residential (Wapping);

      2. Sullivans Cove Mixed Use; OR

    4. Land that has its geometric centre point within a Specific Area Plan that is consistent with the objectives of this program to facilitate medium- or high-density housing close to transport or services, which are limited to the following:

      1. Northern Apartments Corridor Specific Area Plan (Glenorchy LPS);

      2. North Hobart Specific Area Plan (Hobart IPS);

      3. Hobart Commercial Zone Specific Area Plan (draft Hobart LPS);

      4. The Green Specific Area Plan (Launceston LPS).
  1. If the development is in a General Residential zone or an eligible Particular Purpose Zone, as defined under 11.2, the site area per dwelling must be less than 325m2.

  2. All dwellings must have a use class, as described in the development approval issued by the relevant council, that is “Residential”.

    1. Dwellings with the use class “Visitor Accommodation”, as described in the development approval issued by the relevant council, are not eligible.

  3. If the development is in a Local Business Zone, the development must have a use class, as described in the development approval issued by the relevant council, that is “Residential” and one or more of the following:

    1. Business and professional services;

    2. Food services;

    3. General retail and hire.

  4. All dwellings for which a grant is claimed must either be new or the result of adaptive reuse of an existing non-residential building.

  5. All developments for which a grant is claimed must result in a net increase in the total number of dwellings on that development site by at least three. E.g., a development that demolishes one dwelling and builds three new dwellings would result in a net increase of two dwellings and would not be eligible.

  6. All dwellings must have development approval from the relevant Tasmanian council at the time of application.

  7. Applicants have up to six months from the date of the grant funding agreement to claim their grant payment.

  8. To receive the grant payment, the applicant must provide evidence that work on the development is permitted to commence and that construction has substantially commenced. The only evidence of this that will be accepted is;

    1. a ‘Form 39 – Start-Work Notification and Authorisation’ notice authorised by a person licensed as a building surveyor in Tasmania. This notice must not have been dated before 11 April 2024; and

    2. a signed statutory declaration stating that construction of the development has substantially commenced.

Program administration

  1. To be eligible, the applicant must provide all information and evidence reasonably requested by State Growth. This includes evidence of a valid development approval issued by the relevant council and including approval for all dwellings for which the grant is claimed.

  2. Applicants that do not include all required information will be notified that they are unsuccessful and will forfeit their place in the queue. Unsuccessful applicants may submit a new application.

  3. Applications will only be accepted when they are complete and made using the approved form made available by State Growth.

  4. The program will close on 31 March 2026 or when the program’s funding allocation has been fully allocated, whichever occurs first. No further applications will be accepted after this time.

  5. Complete applications will be assessed in order of receipt but applications that do not include all required information will be notified that they are unsuccessful and will forfeit their place in the queue.

  6. State Growth may consider the reputation of the applicants, and the conduct of the applicants in relation to any other programs managed by the Tasmanian Government when assessing their eligibility for a grant.

  7. Applications submitted by a third party will not be accepted without evidence of permission to apply on behalf of the applicant in the application.

  8. This program has limited funding. If funding is exhausted, not all eligible applications will receive a grant.

Definitions

Community housing provider means an organisation, other than Homes Tasmania, that is:

  1. registered under the Community Housing Providers (National Law) Tasmania Act 2013 as a community housing provider, or

  2. declared by the Minister for Housing, under the Residential Tenancy Act 1997, to be providing social housing.

Dwelling means a building, or part of a building, used as a self-contained residence and which includes food preparation facilities, a bath or shower, a toilet and sink, and any outbuilding and works normally forming part of a dwelling.

Homes Tasmania land means any land for which Homes Tasmania, or any previous iteration, is a title holder.

Site area per dwelling has the same meaning as in the State Planning Provisions, which is the area of a site, excluding any access strip (e.g., driveway), divided by the number of dwellings on that site.

 

I confirm that I meet all of the eligibility requirements * Required

If you are unsure about your eligibility, please contact densitygrant@stategrowth.tas.gov.au.

You may be asked to supply documentation to support your eligibility claims as part of the application process, or as part of an audit process to confirm your claims were true and correct.

Previous applications

Has the applicant submitted any previous applications for grant funding under this program in relation to a separate development? * Required
Response required.

This section is not applicable because of your response to question: "Has the applicant submitted any previous applications for grant funding under this program in relation to a separate development?" on page 1

Do not include dwellings that were not approved under a previously assessed application.

This section is not applicable because of your response to question: "In relation to previous applications under this program, what is the total number of dwellings for which you are either awaiting an assessment outcome OR have been approved for grant funding?" on page 1

You have reached the maximum number of dwellings per applicant under the program guidelines. You are ineligible to apply for further funding under this program at this time.