Page 4272 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 20 November 1990
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existing policies. In fact, when this issue was reviewed in 1983 by the then House of Assembly,s standing committee on city management, the committee came up with a set of recommendations which are not dissimilar to those listed in the report tabled before you today.
It is interesting to note, too, Mr Speaker, that when the 1983 report was debated in the House of Assembly the recommendations, with few amendments, were put to the vote and subsequently accepted by the house. In fact, our own Chief Minister, my colleague Mr Kaine, when speaking on the recommendations in the 1983 report - which included under recommendation 3 a statement that the House of Assembly support a policy permitting the erection of approved front fence structures - said:
Mr Speaker, I think that the recommendations made by the committee are eminently sensible and I agree with them. Let me perhaps rephrase that; I support them.
Our own standing committee,s report has carefully considered, we believe, the alternative views on the current no front fence policy in the ACT. We have acknowledged the validity of many of the points of view put forward and we have concluded that the policy does need changing, but not totally deregulating.
The committee has given three main recommendations, the first of which allows for the construction of approved front fences providing they are constructed along seven basic guidelines. These guidelines not only will help maintain Canberra,s garden city environment theme, but also will allow Canberra,s residents a choice to erect a front fence giving them increased visual privacy and better security for their children and their property.
I would like to read into the record those recommendations listed at the conclusion of the report:
The committee recommends that:
the current policy on residential/suburban fences in the ACT be changed to include the following provisions:
. an amendment which allows for the construction of approved front fences in accordance with the following:
(a) the maximum height of such structures does not exceed 1.2 metres in height;
(b) the materials used for the construction of such fences and/or walls should be the same or similar to those of the main building;
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