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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 3 Hansard (26 March) . . Page.. 603 ..

The Clerk: The following petitions have been lodged for presentation:

By Mr Hird, from one resident, requesting that the National Soccer Centre be developed in a location which is suited to a sporting complex of that magnitude.

By Ms Horodny, from 1,877 residents, requesting that the Assembly vote against any Bill that restricts the trading hours of licensed premises.

The terms of these petitions will be recorded in Hansard and a copy referred to the appropriate Minister.

The petition read as follows:

To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory:

The petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly: that the development of the Belconnen Soccer Centre, to International standards, in McKellar section 71 will be detrimental to our local amenity. These concerns relate especially to: the large scale and extension plans, traffic volumes, crowd & traffic noise, overflow parking in residential streets, high intensity night lighting, pollution of Ginninderra Creek and Lake Ginninderra, irretrievable damage to the wetlands and a general disturbance of peace on weekends and late at night, seven days a week. Consequently we do NOT support the development of the Belconnen Soccer Centre in McKellar.

Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to: develop this National Soccer Centre in a location which is better suited to a sporting complex of this magnitude.

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