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MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, LAND AND PLANNING
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION NO. 1417
Lease Variation Process
Mr Cornwell - asked the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning in relation to the "moratorium" upon urban infill approvals effective 22 August 1994
(1) How many applications by block and section number and land use variation by
(a) private and (b) ACT Housing Trust tenants, were under consideration for
approval at that date.
(2) How many by block and section number have received lease variation
approval.
(3) What is the process required to be fulfilled to obtain lease variation.
(4) Does the lease variation area liaise with the planning area prior to granting a lease
variation approval and if not, why not.
Mr Wood - the answer to the Members question is as follows:
(1) Housing Trust tenants can not apply to vary a lease. The information provided is
based on applications submitted by the ACT Housing Trust, as the lessee.
According to my Departments data base 85 lease variation applications were
being processed at that date. The breakdown between private residential and the
ACT Housing Trust applications is 80 and 5 respectively. Attachment A contains
the block and section details.
(2) Fifteen applications have been approved since the 22 August 1994. Attachment B
details those approvals by block and section. -
(3) A lease variation means to add, remove or change one or more of its provisions.
Under the Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991 this is defined as a
"controlled activity". The variation of a lease can include the following activities:
changing the lease purpose clause for a wider range of uses or for some other purpose changing development rights such as extending the permissible gross floor area adding adjacent unleased land to the existing lease
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