Page 523 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 20 February 1991
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$75 or $80 through the Government Printer, but they were also told that they would not be ready for some weeks. That is not providing a public service to people who need to look at the regulations to find out whether or not they were followed. We should look at that and note that for the future, to make sure that people are given assistance in these difficult planning areas.
Talking about design and siting policies, the policies, overall, state:
The Commission firmly subscribes to the belief that an individual should, in the ordering of his own affairs, suffer the minimum restrictions and inconveniences imposed by administrative controls. On the other hand, Canberra is a unique city. As a national capital it has special purpose and character and this imposes responsibilities on persons planning the city and obligations on those carrying out development in it.
In exercising control over the development of the city, the Commission is guided by a desire to have quality, character and permanence consistent with the concept of a national capital in all construction. It seeks to develop an atmosphere of civil dignity and domestic amenity. Its aim is to ensure that development in all forms will not take away but rather add to the value of the total investment in Canberra. That is to say, development must complement and enrich its surroundings.
Well, it will not enrich the surroundings if it goes ahead with these places in McManus Place, Calwell, because their value will drop markedly if that happens. Indeed, the general look of the place, with three buildings practically the same and all in line, will do nothing for the general amenity of the area.
In part II, regarding policies for detached houses, the introduction states:
In relation to a detached house, the objectives of the policies are to provide for the residential amenity of the occupants of the house and the maintenance of amenity of adjoining houses and to ensure that an acceptable environmental quality is obtained in the neighbourhood.
Once again, the spirit of these objectives has been broken. As far as side widths go, under the heading, Buildings in Relation to Side Boundaries, Policy 3, Performance Standard, subsection (d) states:
To create a spacial separation between detached buildings, for reasons of civic design.
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