Page 72 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 11 February 2020
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The development of the Coombs peninsula was originally approved in 2011 through an estate development plan development application for the suburb of Coombs. The approval was appealed to the Australian Capital Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal (ACAT).
ACAT made a consent order in 2012, whereby the Coombs peninsula would be removed from development and that a future development application for the peninsula would not be lodged until such time as a Plan of Management that included the river corridor adjacent to the suburb of Coombs was in place. This was not an agreement that the peninsula would not be developed.
The Plan of Management is now the Molonglo River Reserve Management Plan which formally commenced in July 2019. The Management Plan sets out how the reserve will be managed and restored over time to protect flora and fauna including the pink-tail worm-lizard, provide recreational opportunities and minimise the risk of bushfire.
Now that the Molonglo River Reserve Management Plan is in place, a development application for an estate development plan can be lodged with the independent planning and land authority. It is at this stage of the process that the final zoning of land is determined (and therefore no longer indicative) in accordance with the Planning and Development Act 2007.
When a development application is lodged, the application will be determined taking into consideration the requirements of the Territory Plan, the outcomes of environmental and tree surveys, stormwater management measures to protect the Molonglo River and environmental values within the river reserve, the requirements under the EPBC Act, and recommendations of a bushfire risk assessment. The authority will also take into consideration submissions received during the development application’s public notification. The public notification process will provide the community with a further opportunity to comment on the proposal.
Thank you for referring the petition to me. I trust this information is of assistance.
Motion to take note of petitions
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Ms Lee): Pursuant to standing order 98A, I propose:
That the petitions and responses so lodged be noted.
Newborn screening—petitions 21-19 and 1-20
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (3.53): This is an important petition. It was signed in both the electronic and physical form by over 600 Canberrans. It calls on the government to introduce screening for severe combined immune deficiency—SCID, as it is known—into the existing newborn screening test, which is known as the Guthrie test.
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