Page 5636 - Week 17 - Thursday, 5 December 1991
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MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (12.13): I am not sure that this addresses the problems that have been raised. It takes us back to the outdated CALA provisions. I can understand the desire to impose a rigidity here because of concerns that people have had over the way matters were dealt with some years ago. But let me assure you that there are still processes that ought to be involved and they are well written into the legislation. It is the expectation that leases granted cannot be turned over very rapidly. If a lease is to change, it has to follow the process, as I said; but I think the provisions we are incorporating here are better. I indicate that the Government is opposing this amendment.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 164
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (12.14): Mr Deputy Speaker, I move:
Page 76, line 19, paragraph 164(4)(a), omit "Territory".
This is quite minor.
Amendment agreed to.
MR JENSEN (12.14): I move:
Page 76, line 23, subclause 164(4), add at the end the following paragraph: "(d) the appropriateness of the timing of the grant of the lease.".
This amendment is to the clause headed "Authority to consider proposed leases". I think it has been suggested in the past that the Planning Authority may not have any responsibility whatsoever for indicating whether they consider it is appropriate or not to grant a lease. It seems to us that there are going to be times and situations where it is not appropriate, from a long-term planning point of view, to grant a lease.
What I am suggesting here is that the Planning Authority, before it makes a recommendation to the Executive under subsection (3) in relation to the proposed lease, should be required to consider whether it is appropriate for the lease to be granted. That does not necessarily mean that the Government has to accept that advice, but I think it is not inappropriate for the Planning Authority to give its suggestion to the Minister in relation to the appropriateness from a planning point of view.
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