Letter to the Premier of Western Australia

The Honourable Roger Cook MLA
Premier of Western Australia
13th Floor Dumas House
2 Havelock St
WEST PERTH WA 6005
Via E-Mail:

My dear Premier

Noting your recent comments in relation to Niche Living are a tragedy for that company’s clients who are now left in legal limbo for as long as Niche Living defies your Government’s attempts to cancel its Builders Registration. It appears some Niche clients will wait five years for their homes to be finished.

And the Niche Living crisis is a major challenge to the beleaguered home building industry.

The Home Builders Action Group [HBAG] believes there is a solution that can see a speedy solution to what may appears to be an intractable problem.

The first priority must be to complete the unfinished homes, and the solution lies in an agreement that sees:

1. NICHE surrender its building licence to allow its clients to access insurance;
2. The Government accept the role it played in provoking the problem and contribute to its solution;
3. NICHE contribute reflecting its central role in the problem; and a
4. Panel of builders prepared to complete the NICHE homes as cost effectively as possible.

HBAG believes it can play a positive role in achieving an outcome that will achieve these objectives and reflect very positively on the Government.

Best wishes
Yours sincerely

Damien D’Ascenzo

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN – HBAG
Home Builders Action Group
damien@hbag.com.au
0403 066 028