Making home building fairer and easier

Reforming building laws in NSW

The NSW Government is working to increase confidence in our building and construction industry.

We are looking at how we can better protect consumers and support workers through our Reforming building laws in NSW consultation.

Have your say on making home building fairer and easier

As part of this overall consultation, we are looking at making home building fairer and easier by proposing changes to home building laws, strata defect bonds and how payment disputes are resolved between builders and owner occupiers.

Key proposed changes include:

  • enhanced consumer protections for building contracts, changing the statutory warranty requirements for home building and requiring building disputes to come to Fair Trading for resolution
  • extending building laws to cover modular and pre-fabricated buildings
  • requiring new defects identified at a final building inspection for a strata property to be rectified before the bond is released and formalising the framework for strata building work inspections
  • introducing a new Homeowners Notice document to help residential owner occupiers understand their payment obligations to builders.

This topic is most relevant to homeowners, homebuyers and anyone working in, or with, strata or the building industry.

Whether you work in building and construction or are a member of the public, if you have an opinion on the building industry in NSW, we want to hear from you.

Tell us what you think

To have your say on making home building fairer and easier, complete the survey below.

Alternatively, to have your say on more than one topic area, we recommend completing the all-in-one survey.

The all-in-one survey allows you to easily skip through all topics to the ones that interest you.

Written submissions

You can also make a submission. This option allows you to give detailed feedback or respond directly to the questions in the regulatory impact statements.

For more information, please refer to the Related documents.

The consultation is open until Friday 25 November 2022.

Thank you for your feedback

This engagement is now closed. Thank you to participants for providing your input which we are currently reviewing.

Reforming building laws in NSW

The NSW Government is working to increase confidence in our building and construction industry.

We are looking at how we can better protect consumers and support workers through our Reforming building laws in NSW consultation.

Have your say on making home building fairer and easier

As part of this overall consultation, we are looking at making home building fairer and easier by proposing changes to home building laws, strata defect bonds and how payment disputes are resolved between builders and owner occupiers.

Key proposed changes include:

  • enhanced consumer protections for building contracts, changing the statutory warranty requirements for home building and requiring building disputes to come to Fair Trading for resolution
  • extending building laws to cover modular and pre-fabricated buildings
  • requiring new defects identified at a final building inspection for a strata property to be rectified before the bond is released and formalising the framework for strata building work inspections
  • introducing a new Homeowners Notice document to help residential owner occupiers understand their payment obligations to builders.

This topic is most relevant to homeowners, homebuyers and anyone working in, or with, strata or the building industry.

Whether you work in building and construction or are a member of the public, if you have an opinion on the building industry in NSW, we want to hear from you.

Tell us what you think

To have your say on making home building fairer and easier, complete the survey below.

Alternatively, to have your say on more than one topic area, we recommend completing the all-in-one survey.

The all-in-one survey allows you to easily skip through all topics to the ones that interest you.

Written submissions

You can also make a submission. This option allows you to give detailed feedback or respond directly to the questions in the regulatory impact statements.

For more information, please refer to the Related documents.

The consultation is open until Friday 25 November 2022.

Thank you for your feedback

This engagement is now closed. Thank you to participants for providing your input which we are currently reviewing.