Page 5511 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 9 December 2009
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The motion includes noting that road plans in the Tuggeranong Valley are yet to reflect future development. In this context, we are determined to listen to the Tuggeranong community before commencing a plan for the Tuggeranong Valley. The master plan process will provide a sound basis for this. It will provide a snapshot of the Tuggeranong town centre’s infrastructure capacity. Allowing a time frame of 1½ years for the completion of the work, we may expect then to have an updated Tuggeranong town centre master plan by late 2011. This timing will, of course, depend significantly on the complexity of the issues that emerge in the months ahead.
I am pleased that the Greens party has agreed to support a government amendment to the motion, which I will move shortly, that recognises the work that we are currently doing and the fact that 2011 is the earliest that this work can realistically be completed.
I have been discussing with the Greens party the idea of undertaking an additional master plan for Erindale. Recent work confirms the importance of Erindale as a preferred major public transport interchange in Tuggeranong, as Ms Bresnan has indicated, primarily due to its strategic location. That is why, as previously mentioned, I have committed to seek budget funding in 2010-11 to develop a master plan for Erindale concurrently with Tuggeranong. I can advise that this work will be conducted in a similar manner to that being undertaken on the Dickson and Kingston master plans. The engagement of local businesses, residents, shop owners and young people is generating new ideas and creating a sense of ownership of the outcomes.
In closing, I thank the Greens for bringing forward this motion and agreeing to sensible amendments that I will move shortly, amendments that take into account the big picture in Tuggeranong. I also acknowledge that Mr Smyth will bring forward some amendments on behalf of the opposition that the government is happy to support, and I understand the Greens will as well. We will have, it would appear, a burst of unanimity in this final sitting week in relation to master planning in Tuggeranong. This can only be a good thing for the people of Tuggeranong, and one would hope that, with this agreement across all parties in this chamber, we will see a very productive master planning process in the Tuggeranong Valley through 2010 and 2011.
With that, Madam Deputy Speaker, I seek leave to move the two amendments circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MR BARR: I move:
(1) omit paragraph (2)(a), substitute:
“(a) ensure planning for the Tuggeranong Valley achieves progressive social, economic and environmental objectives;”; and
(2) omit paragraph (2)(c), substitute:
“(c) report to the Legislative Assembly with a completed Erindale Master Plan by the first sitting week in June 2011.”.
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