Daniel Andrews will centralise planning decisions by approving cookie-cutter five-storey apartments, drop permit rules for single dwellings and granny flats and beef up tribunal powers to end disputes in what the premier declared to be the biggest shake-up to Victoria’s housing laws in decades.

The housing package sets the goal of building 800,000 new homes – 80,000 a year across the next 10 years and 2.24 million additional homes by 2051. There are 30 measures including the country’s first statewide 7.5 per cent levy on short-stay rentals such as Airbnb and Stayz, which Mr Andrews insisted was “modest”.