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PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Amendment of Terms of Reference - Kingston Foreshore Area
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (4.09), by leave: I move:
That the preamble of the terms of reference of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure's inquiry into proposals for the Kingston Foreshore Area be amended by omitting "After an assessment of the current proposals for the Kingston Foreshore area has been completed by the Government," and substituting "That the Committee inquire and report on the following matters:".
I will be brief. As the amendment indicates, the committee was prevented from getting on with a consideration of this matter until certain actions had been completed by the Government. That is, in our view, delaying an important inquiry which the committee should get on with. We are at the stage now where we can proceed with such an inquiry and we think we should do so in the public interest; hence this amendment.
MR STEVENSON (4.10): I agree with the amendment. This is an important matter, and the amendment would allow the committee to move rapidly in this area, where there are great potential benefits for the people of Canberra. It is a good idea, whoever thought of it.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Inquiry into Proposed Variations to the Territory Plan
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition), by leave: I wish to inform the Assembly that on 23 September 1991 the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure resolved to inquire into and report on proposed draft variations to the Territory Plan. As presiding member, I inform the Assembly that, as part of this inquiry, the committee is specifically inquiring into the proposed draft variation at Forrest, section 12, block 1, that is, the Canberra Bowling Club.
It seems pretty obvious that there is strong public opinion on whether that variation should be approved and whether the specific proposal being put forward by the bowling club at Forrest should proceed. I have already pointed out to the competing interests in this matter that the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure would confine its inquiries on this matter to only two matters:
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