Page 3729 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 17 October 1990
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MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Speaker, the Government is intent on making the changes that it has announced as smooth and efficacious as possible. I do not wish to indicate that there are any changes in the arrangements announced in this place. As far as I am concerned, there is no change. Obviously I hope that South Curtin school will be ready to occupy on the first day, assuming that we go ahead with that decision. I cannot guarantee that. It is possible delays will arise and I would regret that being the case. As I said, I cannot guarantee that the school will open on that day.
Mr Wood: Obviously, you would leave them at Lyons in that event, would you not, until things are ready?
MR HUMPHRIES: That is quite conceivable, Mr Wood, but I would not wish to canvass that option too thoroughly because it is not an expectation that I would hope the parents or others would build up very high in their minds. It is the Government's intention to proceed to implement the decision it has announced.
Kingston Foreshore - Redevelopment
MR STEFANIAK: My question is to the Chief Minister. Chief Minister, why are the Government's officials refusing to discuss redevelopment proposals for the Kingston foreshore areas with prospective developers?
MR KAINE: Mr Speaker, if it is true that officials are refusing to discuss such matters, I would assume that it is on the basis that it would be premature for them to do so. I am sure members would be aware that the planning questions associated with the Kingston foreshore are quite complex. The comprehensive redevelopment of that site cannot be carried out within the provisions of existing gazetted planning policies, and this means that planning parameters have to be changed. Our draft Territory Plan, which we are hoping to have in effect towards the middle of next year, will clarify the planning issues from the territorial viewpoint in connection with that particular piece of ground; but, of course, that does not solve the problem because some of that ground is designated by the National Capital Planning Authority for planning purposes, and we are not free to make our own decisions unilaterally on that matter.
Once the Territory Plan is in place - as I have said, hopefully early next year; certainly by the middle of next year - and once we have resolved any differences of views between ourselves and the National Capital Planning Authority, then it will be the Government's intention to advertise for expressions of opinion or of interest as to how that site might be developed. That will allow the Government to come to some conclusion about what form of development it is prepared to see there and what support it could give to any proposed development in that area.
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