Infrastructure Funding and Financing Amendment Bill
This bill makes it easier to use a special funding tool that helps pay for new infrastructure — like water pipes, roads, and drainage — near new housing developments. Instead of councils borrowing money or charging developers huge upfront costs, a separate organisation borrows the money and is paid back through a levy (a regular charge) on nearby landowners over time, similar to rates. The bill streamlines the approval process, allows new water organisations to use this tool, and adds protections for landowners if a development fails.
What this affects
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The bill makes it easier and cheaper to fund infrastructure needed to support new housing developments, without big upfront costs to developers or councils.
The Infrastructure Funding and Financing Act introduced a new model for funding and financing the provision of new and upgraded infrastructure for housing and urban development.
The bill would: remove unnecessary barriers to using the IFF Act; improve its viability for a range of infrastructure projects; make the process for developing and approving levies simpler and more streamlined.
Progress through Parliament
Have your say
This bill is open for public submissions to the Finance and Expenditure Committee. Anyone can tell the committee what they think, and you don’t need to be an expert. Submissions close 19 February 2026.
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