Page 1073 - Week 04 - Thursday, 29 March 1990
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The other issue is that as aged people become more infirm, it may be possible that they may have to separate their sleeping arrangements so that they can have a good night's sleep each, or whatever the case may be. They may have some particular medical problems and it may be appropriate for them to have separate arrangements.
In regard to recommendations 13 and 14, all these aspects - that is, the planning, land release, lease description, design and siting issues in relation to the accommodation of the ageing - should be taken into the context of the Territory plan. As we develop the Territory plan, both those areas that are currently being developed and those we propose to develop in the future, our planners should ensure that they provide adequate opportunity for the development of aged persons' accommodation in accordance with basic accepted criteria in relation to location from shops, location from public transport and all those sorts of issues.
I think it is important that, as we plan our suburbs, we identify areas that may not be needed early on in the life of a particular suburb, but as the suburb matures and develops and changes we should be able to provide those sorts of facilities. It is important in those early stages that those areas are clearly identified so there is no confusion whatsoever on the part of the people who move into those suburbs that that is what those areas are going to be used for.
This can be a difficult area because to leave spare spaces or open spaces in land development is, effectively, a cost on the community. It is a cost on the community because the community has to bear the initial servicing cost and then has to maintain that area and retain those servicing costs over the period until it is required. The community has to be aware that these sorts of servicing costs and ongoing costs will have to be built into the budget. In other words, we are not going to get the money for that particular land straight away; we may have to wait later on until the money becomes available.
With regard to recommendation No. 15 which refers to the further options proposed by section 11 of the NCDC's community consultative report, I will quote from page 38 of the standing committee report, the bottom of paragraph 7.6. This consultancy report of the NCDC refers to:
... joint ventures, housing cooperatives, satellite retirement housing; or community options (extending services to people in their homes).
This is an area where we are going to have to see some lateral thinking on the part of our planners and also the office of Industry and Development when it is considering lease conditions, so that these sorts of projects can go ahead with no problems associated with them.
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