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MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, LAND AND PLANNING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 462

Planning Legislation

Mr Kaine - asked the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning - When does the ALP Government intend tabling the planning legislation developed by the Alliance Government.

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

The Government recognises that the planning legislation has very significant implications for the ACT community. We are not prepared to simply adopt the former Alliance Governments draft Bills on face value. Rather, as the Chief Minister indicated in a Ministerial Statement to the Assembly on 21 June, the legislation will be fully and carefully evaluated against the objectives set for its development by the first Labor Government in 1989. At the same time the Government will also be looking closely at the relationship between the legislation and the Territory Plan and whether the Assembly should be considering them together.

A review such as this takes time and I anticipate that subsequently amendments will need to be made to the draft Bill. Depending on the extent of these amendments I expect that the legislation will be introduced into the Assembly in the September sittings.

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