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and recreational opportunities; conserves and enhances valued features of the Territory's natural, built, social and cultural environment; promotes ecologically sustainable development, protects biodiversity, and provides for high standards of environmental amenity, urban design and landscape; and supports Canberra's role as a major regional centre and ensures that planning within the Territory complements that of the surrounding areas of New South Wales.
Community involvement in the planning process is an established feature of Canberra's development. This should continue, and as Canberra matures into a major Australian city we have the opportunity to go forward together, to build a partnership between people, politicians and planners that gives us the goals we seek for the city we all call home and carries on the vision of Walter Burley Griffin and our founders into the twenty-first century.
Madam Speaker, as I have indicated, there are 11 in-principle recommendations contained in this report and 97 specific recommendations. They are found in the first part of the report tabled this morning. I propose to go through some of those in more detail. The first of the major recommendations is that the Government adopt attachment A to this report as the Territory Plan. The further recommendations state:
Recommendation Two: The Committee recommends that the Government continue studies such as the 'Canberra in the Year 2020 Study' as part of a process to ensure the development of a strategic plan for a population in excess of 400,000 people.
Recommendation Three: The Committee recommends the Government institute action against any person in breach of the land use provisions applying to, and about, the group centres, in particular Manuka and Kingston. This reflects the Committee's determination not to authorise variations to permit commercial activity beyond the present boundaries.
Recommendation Four: The Committee recommends that the Government and the ACT Planning Authority take particular note of traffic problems associated with any proposal for development on the block of land bordering Lhotsky Street, Tillyard Drive and Ginninderra Drive in Charnwood Group Centre.
Recommendation Five: The Committee recommends that the legislation applying to planning and building be amended to enable the ACT Planning Authority to approve and set conditions in relation to energy efficiency and to enable the Building Controller to enforce compliance with approved plans.
Recommendation Six: The Committee recommends that the guidelines bearing on the final Territory Plan, and any further guidelines developed in the future, be disallowable instruments pursuant to the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.
Recommendation Seven: The Committee recommends the Government promptly completes the Heritage Register.
Recommendation Eight: The Committee recommends the Government prepare a substantive paper on the urban consolidation issue.
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