Page 1184 - Week 04 - Friday, 23 April 2021
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This is a package of work that is not yet complete, which the minister for planning will report back on in the last sitting day of this year, and which will help inform future planning for Gungahlin district. This week I asked the minister responsible for the Suburban Land Agency why this sale is continuing. Her response was that she saw no reason to halt the sale. The land has been auctioned off to the highest bidder with no consideration of community wishes. I do not want to see the territory selling off the future of Gungahlin town centre. We need to pause the sale until these issues can be addressed. We need to make sure that any mixed-use developments that go up are, indeed, best practice.
We need to give the planning committee time to consider the draft proposal properly. If we do not, is anyone in doubt as to what we will see? We have seen this story before. Where there was meant to be an office park, creating an employment hub for Gungahlin, we now see 22-storey apartment towers dominating our skyline, with empty, unviable retail spaces on the ground floor and investors seeking to maximise the return on their investment by maximising the number of apartments. This is not good enough for the people of Gungahlin. It is selling Gungahlin short.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
The Assembly adjourned at 2.15 pm until Tuesday, 11 May 2021 at 10 am.
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