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.

Making home building fairer and easier

As part of this overall consultation, we were 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 was most relevant to homeowners, homebuyers and anyone working in, or with, strata or the building industry.

Thank you for your feedback

The consultation closed on Friday 25 November 2022. It consisted of an all-in-one survey where you could give feedback on one or all of the topics that interested you. You were also able to make a submission, which allowed you to give detailed feedback or respond directly to the questions in the regulatory impact statements.

Thank you to participants for providing your input which we have considered as part our work.

For more information, refer to the webinar.

The survey has now concluded.