Page 3651 - Week 10 - Thursday, 19 September 2019
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MS STEPHEN-SMITH: I thank Mr Gupta for the supplementary. Canberra Health Services and the ACT Health Directorate have been working closely with the zero emissions team in the Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate to build a blueprint for zero emissions for the public health sector. Building on the great work done by Canberra Health Services in making their day-to-day operations more sustainable, the zero emissions blueprint will help to guide future investment in our buildings, fleet and operations to facilitate a step change in reducing CHS’s carbon footprint.
With the development of a new master plan for the Canberra Hospital campus, we have the opportunity to embed sustainability as a guiding principle for the long-term development of infrastructure at Canberra Hospital, and provide a framework for how we plan for future community health assets and future investment in the Calvary Public Hospital, Bruce.
We also know that a more environmentally sensitive built environment, including improved outdoor green spaces and better urban design, can contribute to better health outcomes and happier staff and visitors. I look forward to ongoing improvement in the sustainable development of our health facilities and hospitals and ensuring that patients and visitors from across the ACT and surrounding region can heal in a space that is not only a great healthcare facility but also a welcoming and healing place to be.
Through master planning and our continuing capital works program, the government is bringing these principles into reality, particularly through the substantial investment in the SPIRE project, which will provide a bigger emergency department and more operating theatres and deliver even better health services for the Canberra community, when and where they need it.
Mr Barr: I ask that all further questions be placed on the notice paper.
Supplementary answer to question without notice
Planning—environment and planning forum
MR GENTLEMAN: I have some more information in regard to Mr Parton’s question on how EPSDD are engaging. I can advise that Mr Ponton is currently working with the secretariat and his colleagues in other directorates on how we can best engage with members of this forum and the wider group on key policy matters within EPSDD. I understand that this work will be completed in the coming month, and Mr Ponton will be sending information to members advising of a meeting on the future mechanism for engagement this year, with the new process to be formalised in 2020.
In the meantime, they are consulting, through phone, correspondence and the your say portal, on important community engagements, including the ACT planning review, the urban sounds daytime noise levels into the evening, sustainable energy policy, and the draft Territory Plan variation for Common Ground Dickson. Shortly, we will be engaging the community on the Dickson pool forecourt upgrades, the Canberra Nature Park draft management plan, the draft Territory Plan variation for the Gungahlin town centre, and the Red Hill integration plan.
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