If we show the way, governments could see the light

https://www.echo.net.au/2023/07/bellingen-has-eco-village-pilot-project-in-its-sights/

Bellingen Council has been developing an eco-village pilot project over the past few years. One of the consultants for the project, Dr Steven Liaros, told The Echo that the project “could inform new approaches to mainstream housing policy,” and that “it is not difficult to transfer the same framework to other townships, or to include it in the State Environmental Planning Policy.”

He said, “After a submission by us during public consultation, Bellingen adopted their Housing Strategy in 2020, which included an action to do an eco-village pilot project. In November 2021, we received some state government funding to set up the planning policy framework for the pilot project.”