Page 808 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 13 April 1994
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I believe that the guidelines are good. You would not anticipate that I would be making too much change, if I do at all. They will bring the standard of our building up to the highest possible level. Committee members and others would know that in this community there is no difficulty in getting a serve about planning and design and the like, and I am happy to see that. I am happy to have a community that expects absolutely the best. It is the case, if you drive around Canberra, that the design quality of a lot of our standard residential houses, as of our medium density units, has not been very good for 50 years. Have a look at some of the apartments in Campbell or Hughes. You get very bland brick structures with minimal landscaping. They have never been very good. I believe that they have been getting better, but the intention of both the committee and the Minister is to see that they are absolutely the best, and that is what will happen.
I want to add my thanks to David Lamont as chair of the committee and to the committee. I think the PDI Committee is probably the busiest in this Assembly - it has to work to fairly tough timetables sometimes because there is a demand to get things done within a specified period - and it is probably the most technical of the committees. You do need a considerable amount of knowledge about the Territory Plan and other issues. Those who work on this committee have come to have a very strong grasp of what is needed. There is a great range of interests to be resolved. Mr Lamont, with a cooperative committee - not always a pliant committee but one that has a common interest in the best for Canberra, which is what binds that committee together, as with other committees - has done wonders in coming up with some very good guidelines. The work they have done in this case and on the Territory Plan has been of the highest standard, and I congratulate David and every member of the committee for that work.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) ACT - VARIATION TO
THE TERRITORY PLAN
Papers
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): Madam Speaker, for the information of members, I present approval of variation No. 11 to the Territory Plan for Kaleen, section 117, block 20, part, Bocce Club, pursuant to section 29 of the Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991. In accordance with the provisions of the Act, these variations are tabled with the background papers, a copy of the summaries and reports, and a copy of any direction or report required.
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