Page 1651 - Week 06 - Thursday, 20 May 1993
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We believe that additional comments needed to be made about residential areas, specifically emphasising the amenity for residents and their capacity to express their views when assessing development proposals which have the potential to change the character of the environment in which they live. The additional comments have reinforced the view that the shape and structure of residential areas will be related to the natural and cultural features and that public housing will continue to be located throughout the city. Locations for higher density housing will be preferred adjacent to town centres, principal public transport routes, and group and local shopping centres. In the section dealing with transport and access, the committee felt that it was important to elaborate on the importance of extending the peripheral parkway system, primarily to minimise traffic on internal road systems through town centres and residential areas.
Part A of the submitted plan includes a section headed "Implementation Policies" dealing with land use controls. The committee agrees with the revised view of the ACT Planning Authority that this section is more usefully placed in each land use policy described in the Territory Plan. This ensures that key information is brought together where the land use purposes are outlined. (Extension of time granted) Thus each schedule of land uses now contains the following clause, or words like it:
Notwithstanding the provisions of this schedule, land may be used for temporary uses, minor uses and uses ancillary to the principal use of the land, provided there is no conflict with the objectives of the relevant section.
In part B, we have indicated that performance controls apply to a number of land uses and that these controls consist of two items - objectives and performance measures. The latter are values which are considered to satisfy the relevant objective so that generally no further evidence of performance is required. However, the authority is still able to consider proposals which do not meet the performance measures, but the associated applications are subject to the public notification and third party appeal provisions set out in Part VI of the Land (Planning and Environment) Act. The committee requested that the performance measures shown in each land use performance control should be highlighted in italics, indicating that, if the particular measure is not met, then automatic notification and appeal provisions apply. The amended pages throughout the document reflect this.
We made a considerable number of recommendations in relation to residential land use policies and commercial land use policies in the Civic area, most notably those which reinforce the requirement for definitive colour schemes to be implemented as part of the approvals process. We changed one area in Civic, where we proposed that there be a consolidation of the areas b3 and b5, and that has particular reference to McKay Gardens. We went on to look at the commercial land use policies in Dickson, Kingston, Manuka and other areas, and I have outlined the comments that have been made on that. In relation to commercial land use policies in local centres, we have also outlined what we see as the structure for corridors and office sites in particular.
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