Code Amendment ID: Future_Living_Code_Amendment Future Living Code Amendment

The draft Future Living Code Amendment seeks to enhance housing diversity by providing housing options for smaller household types and responding to the ageing demographics of the state’s population by providing greater opportunities for ageing in place.

The changes are proposed to apply to Established Neighbourhood zones in the following council areas:

• City of Unley
• Town of Walkerville
• City of Campbelltown
• City of Burnside
• City of Prospect
• Alexandrina Council.

The Code Amendment seeks to facilitate the delivery of a new model of shared housing or ‘co‑located housing’, which responds to existing context and incorporates high design quality.

Co-located housing is anticipated to deliver the following attributes and design/siting outcomes:

• no wholesale demolition of the existing house on the site, but rather its retention, alteration and extension
• reconsideration of private open space in favour of larger areas of shared space
• permitted overlooking within the allotment, with the maintenance of existing privacy for neighbouring properties
• newly created dwellings not being subordinate to the existing dwelling, but rather creating a flat hierarchy of dwellings sharing the one site
• accommodating different age groups and household types.

This Code Amendment assists in delivering outcomes from the following initiatives:

• ‘Planning for a New Future’ Symposium held in 2018
• Cohousing for Ageing Well Project which concluded in August 2020
• Feedback from the Phase Three (Urban Areas) Code Amendment introduced in March 2021

Creating greater diversity in the housing market and providing more affordable options for the community is one way the South Australian Government is taking action to tackle the housing crisis, as highlighted in its Housing Roadmap released in June 2024.