Page 5716 - Week 17 - Thursday, 5 December 1991
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not have any idea of what is being proposed by the draft variation. We are saying that we should add this new subparagraph (viii) to this list of information so that the community is given some indication, by way of diagram, of what we are really talking about.
I accept the fact that it may not be possible for the issue to be fully identified and that all we are talking about here is concepts; but it seems to us that it is not inappropriate for a drawing, other than a plan drawing, to be included to give an indication of what might be possible under the design and siting criteria for that site. That is why, Mr Speaker, we have moved this.
The next two items relating to the provision of information are urban design impact statements and infrastructure augmentation statements.
Mr Wood: I thought we knocked those out.
MR JENSEN: Yes, I said that you had not accepted the last three but you had accepted the first three. I hoped that you may have reconsidered the information in relation to documents for concept diagrams. I hope that you may reconsider that and decide to include it, but I will await your response.
What we are talking about, in the case of the last two items, is firstly urban design impact statements. My amendment to clause 5 quite clearly indicates what I am talking about there in relation to an urban design impact statement. It means a statement of the urban impact that the variation would have. It includes drawings which indicate permissible building forms; building plans that include elevations for existing and proposed site levels; a statement of the impact of the variation on the streetscape affected by the variation; a statement of the traffic generation that would flow from the variation; and a statement of the ability of existing infrastructure to cope with the proposed development. That is the sort of thing we are talking about, Mr Speaker, and which we believe is currently lacking in draft variations.
All we are getting in draft variations is a statement that says, "No problems with the infrastructure; no problems with the streets". Quite frankly, we do not accept that. We believe that it is appropriate to provide this sort of information because failure to do so has been one of the major problems associated with concerns related to the process we have at the moment. That is what the community expresses concern about. We believe that this is a very far-reaching and more modern approach to this sort of development.
It has been adopted and adapted quite well in the North Sydney area by the North Sydney Municipal Council. We saw the process of planning revolutionised by Mr Ted Mack, as the mayor of North Sydney. I think that, to all intents
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