Page 5792 - Week 18 - Tuesday, 10 December 1991
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Mr Jensen: On the other side of the road.
Mr Connolly: We will change the way we drive buses and drive them on the right-hand side of the road.
MR WOOD: The buses do come back again. We have a problem there, it seems.
Mr Jensen: But the weight of facilities is on the other side of the road.
Mr Connolly: We will build a bridge.
MR WOOD: No, I think Mr Jensen will want an enclosed escalator or something to accommodate it. The provisions are there. They will have exactly the same use of these community facilities as anyone else in the area. Mr Jensen seems to think they are miles away from anywhere. The shops will not be opened, I believe, until 1993; so they are going to suffer the same deprivation of shops that everybody else does until that area - - -
Mrs Nolan: Yes, but then, when you build them, the other people do not want them.
MR WOOD: I cannot respond to that, Mrs Nolan. What will happen is this, as I look at the map: If these people have to walk to the shops, if they want to walk, they have the trouble of crossing the street that concerns Mr Jensen; then they walk over the playing fields and past the school to the shops. It seems to be a mammoth job that they should do that.
Mr Kaine: The next thing you will want to do is build houses on the playing fields. We know you.
MR WOOD: No, that was your stunt. We were never going to do that. Mr Jensen, I really do not think that you have grounds to reject this variation. But let me say this: You did have the ground and you did have the right to intervene with residents to see that there was a better development there, and I commend you for that. Having done that, having achieved a satisfactory result, I believe that that is where it needed to stop, and I do not think we need this proposal today.
MR MOORE (4.26): I want to make a couple of comments. It seems to me that if ever there was a disallowance based on a NIMBY ground this would have to be it. What mostly came out in Mr Jensen's speech was the notion of some concept that public housing and people in public housing are in some way different from other people. I think this is a perfect opportunity to integrate some public housing with some private housing, and it is an appropriate way to do it.
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