Page 5791 - Week 18 - Tuesday, 10 December 1991
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understand that the predominant style of house round there is single-storey. The response to that objection by the residents has been for the Housing Trust to put single-storey housing on the outside edge of this area. So, there has been a clear and appropriate response.
It still would have been quite appropriate, I suggest, had they put up two-storey housing on the edge of it because it is quite open to that level of housing. But that has not happened. The residents' views were accommodated. To my knowledge, copies of the revised scheme were distributed to residents and no adverse comment was known by the Planning Authority.
Mr Jensen has also raised a problem of increased traffic in parts of Tewksbury Circuit. Mr Kaine made the point about that and I do not think I need to say any more. I would not think that 24 units would develop the sort of traffic that it was proposed would happen.
Mr Jensen: It is a very narrow street.
MR WOOD: That is right; we know that. Certainly, there will be some increase in traffic. That is unquestionable. But I do not think it is going to be excessive.
Mr Kaine: It will be mainly prams.
MR WOOD: Mainly prams? That is an interesting point that Mr Kaine raises. The main thrust of Mr Jensen's argument appears to be that we are putting some rather poor and deprived people into this totally unsuitable area. We are providing them with carports. I have no doubt that they will have their cars. They will have their prams because these are, in part, two- and three-bedroom units and some single bedroom units, but there will be families moving into those places. So, yes, Mr Kaine, there will be prams and they will have to find somewhere to park them. No doubt they will be the folding variety.
It is this question of the sort of people that are going to be there. Mr Jensen has in mind a ghetto of some sort. There are 24 units here. The people who live in them, I have to say, Mr Jensen, will be indistinguishable from their neighbours. They will be the same sort of people; they will not have three legs or six ears or something like that. They will have the same needs as the people who live next door to them. They will have the same needs and I would expect that they will have the same resources.
A bus passes down Lawrence Wackett Crescent, I think it is, which is the place immediately behind them. They will just walk out the back and there will be a bus stop there somewhere, I expect, for them to catch a bus to the shops - the shops that are not there at the moment.
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