Page 4605 - Week 16 - Tuesday, 27 November 1990
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In relation to the YMCA site, Mr Moore, I am sure, is aware of the provisions of the Civic Centre Policy Plan of 1989. I am pleased to note that when he was talking about workplaces within Civic he was not referring to the old discredited figure of 35,000 by the year 2000; he was referring to a much lower figure, or should have been referring to a much lower figure, as identified in the latest employment figures for Civic dated September 1990, which I believe were provided to Mr Moore as part of the estimates process.
Under the provisions of the Civic Centre Policy Plan 1989 and the Certified National Capital Plan, section 10 City has been designated for tourist and recreational use which does not include offices. The area is shown as National Capital Planning Authority designated area in the National Capital Plan. So they, therefore, have carriage of it. However, as Mr Moore is fully aware, there is a joint study of the future use of this site and section 37, which contains the Olympic pool, and that is being carried out by the National Capital Planning Authority and the ACT Government, which is represented in those circumstances by the Interim Territory Planning Authority. That study has commenced. When it is completed in the near future the recommendations from that study will be open for public consultation and that will take into account the future possible use of the whole area that Mr Moore is concerned about.
Once again, Mr Speaker, Mr Moore is bringing this issue to the Assembly knowing that he does not really have much of a foundation on which to base his complaints and refusing to recognise the amount of work that has been undertaken by the Alliance Government to enhance the administration of the leasehold system in the ACT. Some of the problems are caused by a long period of administration of a complicated and large number of leasing laws. For example, Professor Neutze, in the report my colleague the Chief Minister mentioned, referred to four major leasing Bills. One of the processes that are currently being applied at the moment is to take those four major pieces of legislation on leases and put them, with a couple of other subsidiary items, into a single Bill which will simplify much more the approach that we take to leasing in the ACT.
The other important aspect of the legislation package, of course, is the approvals and orders aspect of it. The package will provide for a much easier process by which problems that have been identified by the lease administration within the ACT can be addressed by issuing appropriate orders for determination and other items like that. Mr Moore may recall that in fact as early as last week the ACT Government did determine a lease because of a failure of the leaseholders to carry out their responsibilities in relation to heritage matters on that site. So to say that we have not considered those issues and given due attention to them is, I would suggest, not strictly correct.
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