The State Planning Commission’s Future Living Code Amendment, introduced over two stages in May 2025 and September 2025, provides for the delivery of a new model of shared housing called ‘co-located housing’.
Co-located housing seeks to:
- enhance housing diversity by providing housing options for smaller household types
- respond to the ageing demographics of the state’s population by providing greater opportunities for ageing in place.
If you are interested in developing land for co-located housing, the ‘How to Guide’, fact sheet and templates below can assist in preparation of your development application. We also recommend that you discuss your proposal with the relevant council planning department.
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.
Creating greater diversity in the housing market and providing more affordable options for the community is one way the Government of South Australia is taking action to tackle the housing crisis, as highlighted in its Housing Roadmap released in June 2024.
