Page 1663 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 3 June 2014
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applications for the Symonston mental health facility will be subject to the same assessment and public notification requirements under the Planning and Development Act as for any other development application.
Therefore, this bill strikes the right balance. The bill enables the expedited consideration of the mental health facility through the territory plan variation process. There will be measured and appropriate restrictions on review of any development approval decision and the bill only applies to the proposed mental health facility at the Symonston site. Importantly, the bill delivers an outcome consistent with the August 2013 unanimous resolution of this place. I commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Question put:
That this bill be agreed to.
The Assembly voted—
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Ayes 8 |
Noes 7 | ||
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Ms Berry |
Ms Gallagher |
Mr Coe |
Mrs Jones |
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Dr Bourke |
Mr Gentleman |
Mr Doszpot |
Ms Lawder |
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Ms Burch |
Ms Porter |
Mrs Dunne |
Mr Wall |
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Mr Corbell |
Mr Rattenbury |
Mr Hanson | |
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to.
Environment—Koppers site
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Workplace Safety and Industrial Relations and Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development) (11.49), by leave: I move:
That the resolution of the Assembly of 9 April 2014, which required the Government to commission an independent analysis of all testing and results to date of the Koppers facility in Hume and to table the results of this analysis in the Assembly by 3 June 2014, be amended by omitting the words “3 June 2014” and substituting the words “first sitting week in August 2014”.
On 9 April this year, the Assembly passed a resolution noting that the government will commission an independent analysis of all testing and results to date of the former Koppers site and provide an independent assessment of the pollution and any possible
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