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MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, LAND AND PLANNING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 448

Residential Land Servicing

Mr Kaine - asked the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning

(1) The ACT Government, on the instructions of the ACT Division

of the ALP has now to revert to government residential land

servicing. What circumstances have changed, since the Federal

Labor Government handed over this servicing responsibility to the

private sector in 1987, to justify this decision.

Mr Wood - the answer to the Members question is as follows:

Any responsible government of the Territory will review and analyse existing procedures for the use and disposal of the Territorys assets. Residential land is such an asset.

The Follett Government believes that public funded land servicing is a desirable alternative to private sector land development. Re-implementing public land servicing may require considerable investment by the Government in the first years, with returns not being achieved for some years.

For this reason the Government is planning a policy of public land servicing against a range of tests which will include costs to Government, and the impact on land prices and the projected short and long term benefits to the Territory.

The policy will be implemented progressively.

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