Page 1232 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 23 August 1989
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MRS NOLAN: I have a supplementary question. You made reference to a group centre. I asked about a local centre. I believe that back in April promises were made for a local centre to replace the group centre. Perhaps I could have some explanation of that.
MR WHALAN: Yes, I did refer to a group centre, and indeed the earlier site that was withdrawn from the auction in March 1988 was a group centre. I apologise; it was March 1989. My note here says 1988 but it was in fact in March 1989 that it was withdrawn from auction. I would just like to have that recorded.
Mr Jensen: And 1988.
MR WHALAN: Sorry?
Mr Jensen: And 1988.
MR WHALAN: Well, it was withdrawn from the auctions in this year, in 1989. Anyway, there were very extensive discussions. I have seen a list of the organisations that have been consulted in relation to this and it is a very comprehensive list. There must be a dozen or 14 organisations on the list. It will be a group centre that is released rather than a local centre, but it will be of a smaller size than the original group centre which was planned for the site and it does reflect the perception, arising from the consultation process, that a local centre would have been too small to have served the long-term needs of the community. A compromise in size between the original size of the large group centre, which was withdrawn from sale, and a small local centre seems to have been arrived at. So it will be a group centre but a smaller one than originally planned.
Car Parking in Manuka
DR KINLOCH: My question is to the Minister for municipal affairs, who so delightfully this morning reminded us of our theatrical nature here in the Assembly, and indeed we are the best show in town. But there is another show in town about which I need to ask a question. This is a dangerous show, to which I have not personally been exposed, and so I am reliant on a number of constituents who have brought this to my attention. Apparently it is dangerous. It relates to the design of the recently constructed parking area, sometimes referred to as the panel beaters' dream, incorporating a speed hump, in Bougainville Street, Manuka.
Apparently the layout of this area creates severe constriction to flow-through traffic as vehicles try to enter or exit the right-angle-to-the-kerb parking bays, and the area is now a somewhat dangerous parking area. Could I
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