Page 55 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 22 February 1994
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Heritage Unit for the site - this recognises the fact that the whole 31 hectares of the Tuggeranong Homestead site is classified by the National Trust of Australia and the whole 31 hectares is on the Register of the National Estate.
We went on:
... the Committee recommends that the Government impose a requirement that the final lessee specifically involve key stakeholders ...
We have attempted to be inclusive rather than exclusive in the names we have put down. We also recommended:
... that the conservation plan, the landscape master plan and the detailed subdivision plan take due account of the heritage features of the site and be brought back to the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure once finalised (it being noted that a complete tree survey should be undertaken before any development occurs and the survey's results be used in determining the layout of the site).
In addition, in recognition of the fact that in this isolated community just after the turn of the century social interaction occurred through sporting activities such as the playing of cricket, we have proposed that the final plan provide for a public park which would commemorate the playing of cricket, in recognition of the former cricket pitch established on the southern part of the Tuggeranong Homestead site by Charles Bean in the 1920s.
I believe that there has been significant consideration by the Planning Committee of the issues we have been required to deal with. The fact that, with all of the competing views of the Planning Committee, we have been able to arrive at a unanimous decision, I believe, indicates that we have given careful consideration to the issues and to the submissions made by groups such as the Minders of Tuggeranong Homestead, whom I applaud. I have much pleasure in presenting this report, and I seek this Assembly's endorsement of it.
MR KAINE (8.15): Earlier today some comments were made about the length of time I have served on the Planning Committee or in relation to planning, and it was acknowledged that that experience goes back to 1989. Mr Deputy Speaker, you know that my experience goes back way beyond that. In fact, in earlier manifestations of the Legislative Assembly I was involved in planning and have been for a long time. In all of that time, few issues have been brought to the Assembly that had the ramifications of this one. From my viewpoint, I believe that the controversial issues connected with this proposal that came to the Planning Committee have been dealt with as fully as it was possible for the Planning Committee to deal with them.
I am absolutely confident that, when this is all over, there will be some people who will be dissatisfied and unhappy with the results. I am sorry if that is the case, because the members of the committee spent a great deal of time examining the difficulties associated with this proposal and trying to reconcile the interests of all those different elements of the community involved. I would like to
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