Page 152 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 12 February 2020
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Planning—Coombs peninsula
MS LE COUTEUR: My question is to the minister for planning and relates to the Coombs peninsula. Despite an Assembly resolution on 27 November 2019 to rezone the peninsula for environmental and recreational purposes, as requested by local community environment groups, the Molonglo River reserve variation tabled by you yesterday did not include such a rezoning. Is it the government’s intention to ignore the Assembly’s resolution?
MR GENTLEMAN: No. In fact we have looked at what we would need to do in that particular area for rezoning. A Territory Plan variation that would have to be drafted. It was not 360; that was for the Molonglo River reserve, as I explained in my tabling statement yesterday.
MS LE COUTEUR: Minister, given that, can you give the affected residents, the community and the conservation groups a timetable for when you will start consultation on your foreshadowed Territory Plan variation?
MR GENTLEMAN: Whenever that TPV is prepared.
MRS JONES: Minister, how long does it normally take you to prepare a Territory Plan variation, and why would you not be up front with the residents about when that will be done?
MR GENTLEMAN: Nobody has put to me the time line by which they want to see a TPV for the area. The resolution from the Assembly does not have a time line in it, so I will let the directorate work on that in its normal course of business.
ACT Health—SPIRE project
MRS DUNNE: My question is to the Minister for Health. Minister, in mid-November 2019 a group of senior officials considered a paper outlining options for the location of SPIRE. In an email of 19 November 2019 to the CEO of Canberra Health Services an official stated:
The inclination … is … to progress with Option 1.
The official went on to outline the advantages of proceeding with option 1, including that it “provides a hospital main entry that fronts onto Yamba Drive”. For the information of members, I seek leave to table the document that I received under the Freedom of Information Act.
Leave granted.
MRS DUNNE: I table the following paper:
SPIRE—Footprint options and site options paper—Copy of email correspondence.
Minister, what specific options were outlined in this options paper? Specifically, what was option 1?
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