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(viii) any documents relating to the preparation of requirements for design and siting approvals resulting from the planning principles identified in the draft variation to include a summary of any concept diagrams available;
(ix) an urban design impact statement; and
(x) infrastructure augmentation statements.".
Mr Speaker, I shall speak briefly to these. The Rally has always maintained that it is most important that this sort of information be available to those people who are seeking to assess whether the draft variations that have been provided for consideration by the community have, in fact, covered all the angles. For example, the draft variation papers often have just a statement about the fact that there are no traffic problems associated with a particular proposal.
My understanding is that all these issues are actually discussed at a reasonably high level within the Department of the Environment, Land and Planning, or by interdepartmental planning committees. These recommendations are then put forward for inclusion in the draft plan variation. The Rally has always maintained that it is important not only to specify this information and make it available for people to see whether, in fact, proper processes have been followed, but also to consider the reasons for any recommendations that have been made by any of those committees. So, that is the basis for the first one, Mr Speaker.
The second one is a little more complex because it relates to the "requirements for design and siting approvals resulting from the planning principles identified in the draft variation to include a summary of any concept diagrams available". We have always maintained, Mr Speaker, that this sort of information is most important when people are considering the implementation policy and the draft plan variation. Without this information it is almost impossible to find out what in fact is in the minds of people when they are proposing some form of change. I will give you one example, the recent proposal for Manuka. All we received was a green piece of paper without any indication as to what sort of proposals were going to be put in regard to that site. That is the sort of information we had.
Mr Wood: I thought we had agreed five minutes ago that we would come back to your amendments. We will reject every one of these outright. It is as simple as that.
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