Page 2365 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 1 November 1989
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ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
The following answer to a question was provided:
Kingston Foreshores
Ms Follett: On 26 October 1989 Mrs Nolan asked:
Back in July, a motion was passed in relation to the Kingston foreshores site. What work has been done to date to that for that reference by the Government and when will the Government be referring the preliminary investigation to the planning committee?
My answer is as follows: members will recall that in July the Assembly debated a motion to refer the development of the Kingston foreshore area to the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure. It was agreed that the matter not go to the committee until an assessment of current proposals for the area had been completed by the Interim Territory Planning Authority. I advised the Assembly during the debate on 27 July 1989 that there would be some delay. I stated the following:
I am relaxed about that proposed amendment by Mr Jensen, but I think members should be aware that, in adopting that amendment, they will be postponing for some considerable time the work of the standing committee in looking at the Kingston foreshore area because I am afraid it is a fact that the Kingston foreshore is one of a number of important policy areas which we are calling upon our bureaucrats to address as a matter of urgency and that I have given priority in my area to the drafting of appropriate planning, environment and heritage legislation, and I intend to adhere to that priority.
So any work that would be done by the Government on the question of the Kingston foreshore site could be quite some little time away, but if it is the intention of Mr Jensen, in moving his amendment, that the committee consider the Kingston foreshore area in the light of the Government's recommendations, I take it that he accepts that there will be that delay.
Whilst the drafting of integrated planning, leasing, environment and heritage legislation is well advanced, the authority's top priority now is the preparation of the draft Territory plan. Broad considerations to policy for Kingston will be given in that plan. Detailed assessment of development proposals for Kingston may proceed after that time.
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