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SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MRS GRASSBY: I present report No. 2 of 1993 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation. I ask for leave to make a brief statement on the report.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: Report No. 2 of 1993 contains the committee's comments on eight Bills and four pieces of subordinate legislation. I commend the report to the Assembly.
PLANNING, DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Draft Variation to the Territory Plan
MR LAMONT (4.13): I present report No. 11 of the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure on a draft variation to the Territory Plan - Kingston, section 7 (part), and section 8 (part), (Industrial Buildings), together with a copy of the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to the Speaker for circulation on Friday, 19 February 1993, pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:
That the report be noted.
Madam Speaker, members will notice that this is a proposal for deferral of consideration by the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee. It is the first time that such a proposal has been put forward by the PDI Committee. I believe that the PDI Committee, unanimously on this occasion, has sought the best outcome for the use, on an interim basis, of the buildings currently within the precincts of the area known as the Kingston foreshores.
The changes that the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee suggest are as follows: That that portion of the site that is Commonwealth land be excluded from the draft variation, the position being that the intention is that this area is for interim uses, short-term uses. The Government has indicated that the estate development section of the Department of Urban Services will actually "own" the lease for this area, and will then sublease it to anybody wishing to become a tenant on the site. That will allow the timeframe for activities that take place on this site to be adequately controlled. We do not have such control over the Commonwealth. The Commonwealth tenants on that land were in the position of being able to issue variations, or to issue leases or subleases, for any period that they saw fit. That would not be in keeping with what the Planning Committee saw as the long-term appropriate usage of this site.
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