Page 1549 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 10 May 2017
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goals and aspirations as we do. That is one of the reasons why I think it is important to maintain the community facility zones, because they have the same aspiration to have community facilities in their vicinity as I do, instead of taking these areas away for premises, for residences.
Members interjecting—
MS LAWDER: Someone earlier referred to the fact that people were heard in silence. I listened in silence to Ms Le Couteur. It might be nice if I had the same courtesy extended to me.
MADAM SPEAKER: Yes, members; no interchange across the floor, thank you.
MS LAWDER: Thank you, Madam Speaker. Ms Le Couteur referred to the fact that she thought there was a bit of a tone to my motion about the deserving and the undeserving. Actually that tone goes back to that 2005 committee inquiry that decided that supportive housing would be allowed on CFZ. That was not my decision. That goes back well over 10 years. It is not the tone of my motion. It is actually the tone of the committee inquiry as to who may be able to be accommodated in the CFZ zoned land. I did not appreciate that aspersion that it was the tone of my motion that there were deserving and undeserving people. It was not my decision.
What I am looking at, however, is this 2015 change which I and many people in the community who have spoken to me believe substantially changed the Territory Plan. I will read to you from the FOI documentation. I am sure you can all see that there is a lot of information redacted here. There is not a lot of text that is left. There are a lot of black areas throughout the documentation, the information that the government does not want us to see.
Back in April 2015 a directorate meeting of the public housing renewal task force reported that potential existed for the development of portions of existing sites in established areas designated community facility, that a number of these sites had overlays excluding supportive housing, that no site allowed general residential use and that the Territory Plan currently limited residential development on community facility land to supportive housing. Confirmation was being sought as to whether this definition can include public housing. The use of community facility zoned land would require the Environment and Planning Directorate to support a Territory Plan variation.
It was quite apparent to the department that a change was required. Furthermore, on 10 September 2015—and this goes to the comments we have all talked about, including Ms Le Couteur this morning—another meeting of I think the same committee talked about the definition of the community facility zoned development code providing for the development of supportive housing on community facility sites and that the Territory Plan only permitted people who are older or who have a disability to live in supportive housing. Again, not my decision and not my tone, Ms Le Couteur, but it has existed for a long time. But it does say that this definition fits with the purpose and use or allocation of public housing as administered by Housing ACT.
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