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There have been a range of papers produced and presented, and this Territory Plan also outlines some of the concerns and considerations in relation to urban consolidation. We are proposing that there be a single, substantive, authoritative paper which combines all of these documents prepared by the ACT Planning Authority and the Government. The recommendations continue:
Recommendation Nine: The Committee recommends that the Land (Planning and Environment) Act be amended to allow public notification of single house design and siting applications to be in the form of a letter served on neighbours, by post or otherwise, and a sign placed on the site, as the only forms of notice required.
Recommendation Ten: The Committee recommends that the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning be asked to initiate the preparation, as a matter of urgency, of amendments to the Land (Planning and Environment) Act to give effect to a streamlined notification and review of the decisions process for design and siting, land use and leasing applications, to coincide with the introduction of the new Territory Plan.
We also propose to make provision for appeals to go to a new planning and land appeals board appointed by the Minister, to operate along the lines indicated elsewhere in this report. The eleventh recommendation reads:
To avoid confusion and duplication of effort, the Committee recommends that in the case of urban renewal, applications for both lease variation and design and siting should be submitted concurrently.
I intend to go through in some detail, in the order laid out in attachment A, some of the other 97 recommendations. The first of those, at page 6, is that in the final Territory Plan the basis upon which maps are produced be made clearer and more easily able to be read. We also propose that the plan include a subregional strategy as part of its text. It did not in the originally submitted plan, but the committee believes that it is important for all Canberrans to understand the global context of planning in the ACT. The committee has submitted, as part of its variations, comments in relation to the subregional strategy.
We believe that some changes need to occur in Other Policies, part C. Clearance zone policies should more appropriately be called environmental planning policies, and we have adjusted the headings accordingly. In the general principles and policies area of part A, we were dissatisfied with the use of the word "strategic" because it conveyed a more long-term and broader sense of planning than was borne out by the text. Indeed, the original draft Territory Plan made certain comments about the fact that that was not the case.
We have changed a number of other areas which I will go on now to talk about. This committee is convinced that a strategic plan for a population in the ACT beyond 400,000, presumed in the document tabled this morning, is required, and it looks forward to the contribution to be made by the 2020 vision study and other papers. The committee also felt that the section headed "Metropolitan Structure" had not been fully developed. In particular, the committee felt that additional descriptions were needed for town centres, group centres, local centres and suburbs, and these descriptions have been added to the text.
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