Page 3031 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 10 September 1991
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members as a whole, then he ought to bring forward his own piece of legislation. It seems to me quite ridiculous to keep arguing this matter backwards and forwards when Mr Collaery has available to him a means that he chose himself - he was under no duress to do so - and has not proceeded with. I am at a loss to explain why he has not proceeded with it. I would have thought that, if he was serious about the matter, he would have.
Territory Plan Variations - Ainslie
MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, my question is to Mr Wood, as Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. I draw the Minister's attention to several blocks in Ainslie where variations to the Territory Plan have been proposed. They have been designed to facilitate infill in the area, and in particular to assist in the provision of aged persons units, which, I think, most members of the Assembly support. Do the variations fit into an overall plan for Ainslie, or are the developments going to proceed in an ad hoc manner?
MR WOOD: Mr Speaker, I think the answer, it is fair to say, is that the planning has an overall concern for all of Canberra, and for Ainslie, as for any suburb. At the same time, the community finds it difficult to locate the sites for aged persons development. Where there is government housing or other sites that become available, they are eagerly seized upon. So, in that sense, the planning does pick out sites as they become available; but, in the overall context, those sites have to be entirely appropriate with what is in that suburb.
I think most members, if not all members, would agree that over a fairly long period the planning of aged persons units has been very well done; it has been sensitive to the neighbourhood and in harmony with the neighbourhood. I think the clear answer, bearing in mind Mr Moore, the difficulties that we have in finding sites, is that they are certainly in harmony with the suburb of Ainslie in this case.
Road Safety - Rabaul Lane
MR STEVENSON: My question is to Terry Connolly and concerns what appears to be a black spot accident area.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Stevenson, order! I keep having to ask you not to use first names. Mr Connolly is the Minister. I would ask you not to use his first name, as we have all agreed. Please proceed.
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