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Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 12

Noes 5

Mr Braddock

Dr Paterson

Mr Cain

Ms Burch

Mr Rattenbury

Ms Castley

Ms Clay

Mr Steel

Mrs Kikkert

Ms Davidson

Ms Stephen-Smith

Mr Milligan

Mr Davis

Ms Vassarotti

Mr Parton

Mr Gentleman

Ms Orr

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Planning Bill 2022

Debate resumed.

MR STEEL (Murrumbidgee—Minister for Skills, Minister for Transport and City Services and Special Minister of State) (4.33): I am pleased to speak today in support of the Planning Bill and the important reform that this bill drives.

This new planning bill establishes a modern outcomes focused planning system that promotes good planning, design and development across Canberra in the city’s long-term interest. Our city is growing and will be home to half a million people much earlier than expected, as early as 2026, and we need this important piece of reform to prepare our planning system for our growing city.

This reform seeks to take us beyond the rigid rules and criteria-based system to one with a focus on delivering a better-designed and better-quality development that we will need to see to support the future of our city. It is focused on shifting towards an outcome-based system that empowers the territory’s planners to make more informed decisions, which will consider the sometimes difficult trade-offs that we need to build a city with complex infill developments and to address other challenges that we face, like climate change.

The development of Canberra across the coming decades will be greatly influenced by our important investments in infrastructure, such as future stages of a mass transit light rail system, major road duplication upgrades, new hospitals, including the new northside hospital, a new CIT campus, a new university and so many other infrastructure and other developments.

This reform package that we are debating today creates a planning system that provides the city-wide strategic planning that takes into consideration a growing city, the impacts of climate change and these important infrastructure priorities.

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