Revealed: The number of new homes coming to Mosman, Neutral Bay and North Sydney.

By ANNA USHER

Councils on the north shore and northern beaches will need to build thousands of new homes over the next five years under revised targets to curb the housing supply crisis.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has unveiled ambitious plans for 43 local government areas to construct 377,000 houses in NSW by 2029, shifting the “burden” from Western Sydney.

“For a long time, Western Sydney has accepted the overwhelming burden of new housing in our city without proper infrastructure to cope with the increase in population,” Mr Minns said.

“This plan ensures we are now building more housing around established infrastructure, in places connected to work and transport, in communities that already have schools and hospitals.”

Most new homes — 107,100 — will be built in “Eastern LGAs,” including the Inner West and northern Sydney suburbs.

Ku-ring-gai Council’s target increased from 3000 to 7600, while North Sydney and the Northern Beaches doubled from 3000 to 5900 each.

Other local areas have also had significant uplifts compared to what was already planned or underway.

In Mosman, the housing target has shifted from 300 to 500, with 100 new homes to be built in the suburb every year until 2029.

Willoughby LGA moves from 1600-1800 to 3400.

Lane Cove LGA’s new target is 3400, and Hunters Hill LGA doubles from 200 to 400.

We’ve asked local councils to pick up the slack, to maintain the roads, to provide the parking, to make sure services are there for entire new communities,” Mr Minns said on Wednesday.

“For some councils with low housing targets and not much incentive to change for a long time, it’ll be a substantial change.”

Over the next five years, 82 per cent of the housing targets will come from infill areas, and 18 per cent will come from greenfield locations.

“These targets will be ambitious. Last year, NSW delivered 48,393 homes, and the previous record number was 74,683 in 2018/19,” Mr Minns said.

“But we can’t sit back and do nothing.”

Mosman Mayor Carolyn Corrigan told Mosman Collective the new housing target was “reasonable”.

“Mosman Council will continue to work with the Planning Minister and state agencies to help ensure adequate new infrastructure, in particular transport infrastructure, is delivered to accommodate the increase in density,” she said.

“It remains to be seen how the State Environmental Planning Policy, expected to be released shortly, will assist in delivering the housing target.”

Mayor Corrigan said many other variables, such as construction industry capacity, market liquidity, land availability and immigration numbers would continue to have a profound impact.