Page 3932 - Week 13 - Thursday, 17 October 1991
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Demolition of House at Manuka
MR BERRY: Mr Jensen asked Mr Wood a question in relation to a building demolition at Bougainville Street, Manuka, and Mr Wood has asked me to answer the question. Mr Jensen asked:
Can the Minister advise whether it is correct that the Heritage Committee accepted a certificate from the builders that the building was unsound and that no independent assessment was made by the Heritage Committee or the Territory Planning Authority in relation to the soundness or otherwise of the building? ... Will the Minister make available to the public details of the approvals for the demolition, including the certificate of the unsound nature of the building, which were used by the Heritage Committee to make its recommendation?
At this juncture, I just mention, on the issue of questions, that it is very interesting that not one health question was asked today. So much for the interest in the provision of details about what is going on with the health budget.
Mr Wood's answer is: The architect for the development obtained an independent structural engineering report from a qualified and practising structural engineer. The report stated that the building was structurally unsound and recommended demolition. The ACT Heritage Committee viewed the report and agreed with its conclusion. No independent assessment was made by either the ACT Heritage Committee or the ACT Planning Authority. The Government is happy to make available to the public the details of the demolition approval and the structural engineer's report. However, Mr Wood has asked his officers to seek the consent of the lessee who commissioned the report. That concludes the very good answer to that wobbly question.
School Bus Services
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Speaker, in question time this afternoon, Mrs Nolan asked me about the changes to school bus services and I said that I would advise her when decisions had been made. Fortuitously, there was a meeting going on from 2 o'clock, which stopped at about 2.30, between schools and ACTION, as part of the full consultative process. I can say that there are three services that are proposed to be deleted: The service from Farrer and Isaacs to Marist and Melrose, which will be combined with another lightly used route; and two services servicing South Curtin and Macquarie schools which are no longer necessary because of the enlightened reversal of the former Government's school closure policy. The Macquarie service, for example, today had only two students travelling on it.
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