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I also offered to seek legal opinion on this matter. However, I believe the issue is straightforward and therefore do not intend to follow this course of action unless pressed to do so. I therefore propose, subject to any direction of the Assembly, to permit Executive Deputies to ask questions without notice or to place questions on the notice paper subject to the standing orders of the Assembly.
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Residential Development
MS FOLLETT: My question is addressed to the Chief Minister in his capacity as Minister for planning. The report of the Interim Territory Planning Authority, which was tabled in this Assembly yesterday, in discussing future residential development states that Jerrabomberra offers opportunities for development. In what way is this residential development potential affected by the interests of the National Capital Planning Authority in this area?
MR KAINE: The interests of the National Capital Planning Authority in Jerrabomberra are no different from those in relation to anywhere else in Canberra. Before self-government the Commonwealth designated areas of national land which are not available for development by the Territory unless we negotiate with the Commonwealth in connection with that.
The National Capital Planning Authority has now proposed that certain land be designated for planning purposes. That would give it the planning control over that land, and that is a matter of ongoing debate. The land at Jerrabomberra is in no way different from any other land in the ACT in that connection. If it has been designated as national land, then we could develop it only after discussion and agreement with the Commonwealth, and then only within the context of any planning control over that same land by the National Capital Planning Authority if it becomes designated land.
MS FOLLETT: I have a supplementary question, Mr Speaker. I ask Mr Kaine again: is the National Capital Planning Authority, through its various planning classifications and controls, affecting the potential for residential development in other parts of Canberra as well?
MR KAINE: Because of the presently pervasive powers and in accordance with the current interpretation of those powers by the National Capital Planning Authority under its enabling Act, it is true to say that any land in Canberra could be affected by the National Capital Planning Authority if it chooses to exercise the jurisdiction that it implies for itself by its interpretation of the National Capital Plan. It would apply equally anywhere else in
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