Page 4738 - Week 15 - Thursday, 21 November 1991
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So, what the National Capital Plan is talking about is the linkages. It does not deal with an overall strategy. It deals with the impact of those matters that are perceived to be of national significance, and that term is not defined. So, it is apparent that we are not enforcing the regime - the inner planning discipline - of a broad strategic plan. I ask you: Would a general go to war without a broad strategic plan? I am certain that he or she would not. Would members suggest that a chief of staff would not have a broad strategic plan for running something as grandiose as this city, with the formerly enshrined dispersed city concept and the rest?
What we are doing, as conceded at page 73 of the Planning Report of the draft Territory Plan, is dropping the focus on a strategy and moving towards a focus in the following terms:
... the focus of the Plan's statutory role is to be land use, and the processing of proposals for buildings, works and subdivision.
Hence, the zonal system, which we will come to later in the debate on the plan. The fact is that the strategies worked out over the years by Sir John Overall and the great planners of the NCDC are now to be discarded, to be found again "pending proposed joint studies with the NCPA". The report says, further:
... the Territory Plan cannot at this stage incorporate a comprehensive strategy for the ACT's longer-term development.
Mr Moore is trying to preserve what strategy we have, at least until we find another strategy. I ask you: Would a chief of staff throw out a general strategy for conducting warfare, without having a replacement idea, and still commit the troops to battle? No, of course not.
Mrs Grassby: That is exactly what they do all the time.
MR COLLAERY: It may be what the Labor Party does, but it is certainly not what the Rally wants for our fair city. We do not want a developer-driven city. We do not mind development - - -
Mr Wood: You haven't got one, for heaven's sake.
Dr Kinloch: Forrest bowling club.
MR COLLAERY: Yes, hear, hear! My colleague Dr Kinloch cites the Forrest bowling club.
Mr Connolly: I wondered when that would come back - and Rocky Knoll.
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