Page 4348 - Week 14 - Wednesday, 30 November 1994
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Residential Development - North Watson
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, my question also is to Mr Wood, as Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. I gave Mr Wood a few hours' notice that I was going to ask a question like this. Report No. 20 of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee regarding North Watson recommended, amongst other things, that the ACT Planning Authority specify the maximum number of residential dwellings to be built on non-government land and that all site plans be referred to the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee before any developments proceed. Could the Minister inform this house whether the maximum number of residential dwellings has been specified and whether the site plans have been referred to the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee, with particular reference to the Starlight Drive-in site?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, the Planning Authority have, I understand, specified the number of houses to go there. They have done that, as required. They have not referred any site matters to the PDIC. I will check the detail of our response to that committee; but I do not think that the Starlight Drive-in matter to which Mr Moore refers would have been referred to the PDIC, since it is not a site on government owned land.
MR MOORE: Madam Speaker, I would like to ask a supplementary question, extending it from the Starlight Drive-in site. Minister, you said on radio yesterday that all developments in North Watson would be publicly developed, and you referred to 1,300 dwellings. If you are going to take 1,300 dwellings, that figure does include the Starlight Drive-in site. In fact, I believe that the number will be closer to about 970, unless you override that private development. Will you, therefore, resume that site and reauction it, or what is the process that you are talking about?
MR WOOD: I would have thought that the matter was fairly clear. There are quite a number of leases at North Watson. A proportion of those - the major open area, the undeveloped area - are leases over which the Government has control. They have been short-term agistments or of some other nature. There are a number of other sites, particularly those fronting Northbourne Avenue, which are fairly long-term, standard leases of one sort or another, held by private enterprise. I think there is a fairly clear distinction between those two forms of lease.
Petrol Station Sites
MR DE DOMENICO: Madam Speaker, my question also is to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. I refer the Minister again to the three service station sites for which applications closed at 2.00 pm today. Noting that he is a barometer for things concerning this issue, seeing that he signed the determination, I ask the Minister: Under the criteria, which you signed, for direct grant of the leases for the three sites, applicants must not only prove that they will act competitively but also demonstrate that they will remain competitive. Minister, what tests will you apply to ensure that successful applicants will remain competitive for the duration of the lease?
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