Page 3306 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 19 October 2022
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spur private investment in the shops in the future, but that space for play is going to be used by the whole community the whole year round.
So there are things that we can do to improve these spaces for the whole community, and we hope that will also benefit businesses. Early childhood services are often considered to be businesses. They are also places of education and learning. We will see what we can do to complement those activities. That might mean activities that actually support young children. That is something that we are absolutely committed to through playground upgrades. As part of the shopping centre upgrades that we are undertaking, we often do make upgrades to play spaces, for example, or put in new play spaces. Duffy shops is a great example of that, with construction underway at the moment.
MR PARTON: Minister, can you provide an update on upgrades at Lanyon and Calwell, including expected completion times and what is to be included in those upgrades?
MR STEEL: We have set out a range of different shopping centres that we plan to upgrade in this term of government. That will give the opposition a sense of the timing. We will be consulting with the community on those upgrades.
At Lanyon shopping centre, in particular, there has been a significant amount of work started already, with funding commitments made in relation to upgrades to the lights that are going into the Lanyon Marketplace from Tharwa Drive. That will provide some improvement to the shopping centre. We are keen to hear from the community about other improvements we can make.
There is a particular constraint in relation to what is public land and what is the private leasehold of the shopping centre at Lanyon. So we will need to make sure that we concentrate on those areas that are public land, and we will make improvements to that, and we hope that the shopping centre themselves will make improvements to their private lease.
Housing—energy efficiency
MR DAVIS: My question is to the Minister for Sustainable Building and Construction. I think all members in this place would appreciate that climate change does not just represent an increasing number of acute disasters but prolonged changes in daily temperatures and weather conditions, with heatwaves set to double. With that in mind, what are the benefits of the ACT leading the nation in the quest for a minimum energy-efficiency standard of seven stars?
MS VASSAROTTI: Thank you, Mr Davis, for the question. This is a change that, actually, we have been championing in the ACT for some time, so it was really exciting that, a few months ago, we actually came together as building ministers across the country and agreed to seven stars for our residential buildings. That means that we will actually be part of a national process where that standard will be set.
There are two key things that will be changed through the decisions that were made by building ministers. One is to raise the minimum level of thermal performance for
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