Page 4097 - Week 13 - Thursday, 6 December 2007
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463 dwellings, was approved, with conditions, on 28 November of this year. The documentation for the EDPDA for stage 1B is also under way, with it being circulated to relevant agencies for their input.
The EDPDA for Forde stage 4 for 616 dwellings has been lodged with the planning and land authority, and approval is expected within two weeks for that estate development plan. The EDPDA for Franklin stage 3, approximately 810 dwellings, has also been lodged with the planning and land authority and is expected to be determined shortly.
A draft EDP for Bonner stage 1, an LDA estate, some 329 dwellings, has been circulated for agency comments. An EDPDA for approximately 64 dwellings adjacent to the Gungaderra precinct, Harrison, en globo estate is also expected to be lodged with the planning and land authority shortly.
On 16 November this year, the government announced that the Canberra Investment Corporation, the PBS Property Group and the Defence Housing Authority were the joint venture partners with the Land Development Agency for the development of Crace. Crace will contain 1,200 dwellings, a local shopping centre and a neighbourhood oval.
I am also pleased to advise that the government has allocated an additional $1.45 million this year for continuing planning and infrastructure studies to facilitate additional residential land supply to the LDA. A significant part of this allocation will be used to fund additional studies in Moncrieff, the territory land in Lawson and elsewhere in the territory. In keeping with the statement of planning intent, the government is on track to deliver 11,000 dwellings to the LDA to maintain a five-year land supply.
I turn now to Molonglo and north Weston. As Dr Foskey mentioned, a variation to the territory plan to allow for urban development here is well advanced. A three-month public consultation period has concluded and, subject to its approval, the first land at north Weston could be made available in the second half of 2008, in line with previous government announcements. Further releases in north Weston and Molonglo will then proceed in an orderly fashion.
I take this opportunity to respond to some of the comments from Dr Foskey in relation to development in this area. It is, of course, the government’s intention that the sustainability principles that Dr Foskey has raised will certainly feature in this new estate. But as for her suggestion that, if certain requirements were not met, development should not occur in that area; the problem is simply that that would then increase pressure on other parts of the city. It needs to be made clear that any residential development in the territory is going to have some impact on the environment and that it is impossible to further expand the human population in the territory and have no impact whatsoever on the environment. The question is, of course: how we can seek to minimise that impact?
We do need to recognise that there are, of course, advantages and disadvantages in pursuing different approaches here and that, whilst there is undoubtedly going to be
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