Former Mr Fluffy blocks

Between the 1960s and 1979, loose-fill asbestos insulation was installed in around a thousand Canberra homes. Under the Loose Fill Asbestos Insulation Eradication Scheme the Territory bought back the affected properties, demolished the houses and resold the blocks.

There are two lists, and they mean different things:

Why the full list matters to a developer

When the Territory resold these blocks, many were released with a Crown lease whose purpose clause already permits two dwellings. If that is true of the block you are looking at, going to two dwellings adds no dwellings to the lease — and no Schedule 2 charge arises at all. On a Chapman block that is $83,250 you do not pay; in O'Connor it is $206,750.

It is also worth knowing that these blocks are disproportionately in the older, inner suburbs where the LVC rates are highest, which is exactly where the saving is largest.

What MPA 04 changed

Former Mr Fluffy blocks used to enjoy a lower minimum block size for dual occupancy in RZ1 — 700 m² rather than 800 m². Since 1 July 2026, minimum block sizes for additional dwellings in RZ1 have been removed altogether, so that particular advantage no longer distinguishes them. The two-dwelling lease still does.

The one thing you must do

Read the lease. This tool can tell you a block appears on the list; it cannot read the purpose clause, and the clause is what determines the charge. Order the Crown lease from ACTLIS and read it before you assume anything — then set "dwellings the lease already permits" to 2 on the property page and see what it does to the numbers.