Inner fascist leaks out of NSW 'Photios' Liberals with dark-roof-colour ban
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Dripping wet Liberal-left, NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes - just like boy Minister Matt Kean - is a dangerous individual when it comes to meddling with other people's lives.
"Dark roofs to be banned in NSW, planning minister says".
Nothing wrong with his logic - dark roofs do hold the heat. But so what if someone wants one - surely it's their choice?
This is the problem with the modern Liberal Party ... It's no longer about freedom of choice.
Stokes is one to watch very closely. He has odd ideas and thinks he knows much more about what's best. Perrottet would be wise to bury him if he wants to retain Government.
The inner fascist is dying to come out of most lefty Liberals.
This is no longer the Party of John Howard.
The NSW government will move to ban dark roofs as part of its push to deliver more sustainable housing and reach its target of net zero emissions by 2050.
Speaking to the Committee for Sydney, planning minister Rob Stokes foreshadowed the policy switch to ensure all new housing has light-coloured roofing.
He said recent University of NSW research commissioned by the federal government found Sydney’s ambient temperatures could be reduced by up to 2.4C if dark roofing was ditched across the city. A light coloured roof could reduce temperatures inside the home by up to 10 degrees during a heatwave.
“This would have an enormous impact on the urban heat island effect in our city, and I will be asking the Department of Planning to implement this as part of our Net Zero Cities approach,” he told the Committee for Sydney on Wednesday.
“There are no practical reasons why we shouldn’t be ditching dark roofing on new homes permanently to ensure that future communities of Sydney’s west don’t experience the urban heat that many communities do now,” he said.