Page 225 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 30 May 1989
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INNER CANBERRA HERITAGE STUDY
MR MOORE: Can the Chief Minister advise when the inner Canberra heritage study, which was commissioned in 1988 at a cost of $16,000, by Howard Tanner Associates from Sydney and a Canberra firm, Phillip Cox, whose manager is Eric Martin, and which is understood to have been completed, will be released to the people of the ACT?
MS FOLLETT: I thank the member for that question. If I may, I will take it on notice and provide a reply to him late this afternoon.
HERITAGE AREAS
MR JENSEN: Will the Chief Minister undertake to assure the Assembly that action will be taken to examine the ACT Unit Titles Ordinance to change the current requirement for residential blocks, especially in heritage or potential heritage areas, to be divided into a minimum of four, thereby reducing the possibility of houses like the ones at 10 Murray Crescent and 37 Telopea Park West being demolished in the future?
MS FOLLETT: Yes, I will undertake to review that matter.
DOG CONTROL
MS MAHER: Is the Minister for Housing and Urban Services aware of the reports that last weekend a poultry run maintained by the Salvation Army at its Mancare centre at Fyshwick was destroyed by stray dogs? What will the Government do about the control of dogs in the ACT?
MRS GRASSBY: I am aware of the incident, and I have made some inquiries about it. It is really a shame to think the effort of the staff and the people there has all been destroyed. Dog control is a very big thing. In the two weeks that we have been in government I have had six complaints about dogs. So, next to housing, dogs are really the most important things. I am very aware of it.
Mr Kaine: It is a very important area of management.
MRS GRASSBY: It is a great concern to the ACT Office of City Management. Dog control staff are required in a typical week, I am told, to handle 500 dog complaints and inquiries from the public, to impound 50 dogs and to destroy 30 dogs. In the calendar year 1988, 1,967 dogs were impounded, 1,197 were humanely destroyed and 27 were shot in the rural areas of the ACT after attacking livestock.
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