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INTERIM PLANNING ACT - VARIATIONS TO THE
TERRITORY PLAN
Papers and Ministerial Statement
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): Mr Speaker, pursuant to the Interim Planning Act 1990, I present the following papers:
Interim Planning Act - Approvals of variations to the Territory Plan -
Griffith, Section 96, Block 1,
Forrest, Section 24, Blocks 4 and 5.
This variation involves a proposal to extend the Capitol Cinema at Manuka onto the adjacent car park and to build a parking structure on an existing car park in Bougainville Street, Forrest, opposite the Manuka Village Shopping Centre. This parking structure is to accommodate the parking generated by the new cinema development and also that which the cinema will displace.
Last week the Government sought the recommendations of the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee on this variation within the spirit of the recent amendment to the Interim Planning Act. However, the committee declined to consider that variation - - -
Mr Jensen: That is rubbish. We sent you a letter.
MR WOOD: I am sorry; I cannot read the letter that Mr Kaine sent back to me. This morning the Chief Minister and I inspected the sites involved in this variation and, after considering the recommendations of the ACT Planning Authority, the Executive decided that the variation be approved.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Wood, may I advise that you should have sought leave to make a statement. You did not request that.
MR WOOD: Retrospectively, may I have leave?
Leave granted.
MR JENSEN, by leave: Mr Speaker, I think it is important to get on the record that the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee did not make a decision not to consider this, and it did not make a decision not to look at it. There was no decision made one way or the other. We did, in fact, send a letter to the Government indicating that the Government should make a decision. We did not
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