Armidale Regional Council (the Council) has prepared a Local Strategic Planning Statement Strategy and a Local Housing Strategy, both of which were endorsed in 2024 with a planning priority to build Social Housing with the objective to increase the supply of affordable and social housing in the region.

Part of that Objective in the Local Strategic Planning Statement and Local Housing Strategy envisages that the Council to partner with the housing industry to investigate opportunities to develop council land for social housing.

Council is seeking to engage with entities to assist in developing the land and erecting social housing. It is important to the Council that a range of persons and entities have the opportunity to nominate different options for the development of subject land.

The Council is therefore inviting expressions of interest from suitably qualified persons and entities to provide the Council with Preliminary Options and Feasibility Information for the Development of Land for Social Housing (the Information). The Council understands that the Information is likely to include commercial in confidence information and proposes that the Council enter into a Non-Disclosure Agreement/Deed (NDA) in the attached form with appropriate persons / entities who wish to participate and put a proposal to the Council.

The Council may enter into such arrangements with one or more persons or entities, at its discretion.

The Council anticipates that, following its consideration of Preliminary Options and Feasibility Information received from successful applicants.