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MR WOOD: I move:
That the Assembly authorises the publication of the submissions to the Residential Redevelopment Review.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MR WOOD: I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the report on the Residential Redevelopment Review.
On 21 August I announced the terms of reference for a residential redevelopment review and on 15 September Mr Robert Lansdown was appointed to carry out this review. In announcing the review I made the following comments:
In talking with the community, various issues have been raised about some individual redevelopment proposals, about the extent of redevelopment and the perceived rate of change in particular parts of Canberra.
The terms of reference were developed in consultation with the Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure.
It is with great pleasure that I now table, for the information of members of the Assembly, copies of the report. I am also tabling a few submissions to the inquiry, which arrived too late to be included in the earlier tabling of submissions. This now completes the tabling of submissions to the inquiry. I thank Mr Lansdown and his team for the quick and efficient work they did on the review. He conducted the review within a very short timeframe. Over 150 individuals and organisations made written submissions and numerous people provided oral evidence. The report was thorough and comprehensively addressed the terms of reference. I am sure that the community will join with me in thanking him for a difficult job well done.
I turn to some of the specific recommendations of the review and outline the Government's response. Firstly, on dual occupancy: As members would know, residents in new areas, particularly Banks and Conder, were concerned at the number of dual occupancies that were being erected in areas where residents were led to believe that only single residential dwellings would be built. The intention of the dual occupancy policy was to provide for additional housing options in established areas, and the action of builders in new areas was to exploit what was clearly a loophole. On Mr Lansdown's recommendations, we have now closed this loophole. A draft variation to the plan was gazetted on Tuesday, 24 November, and this will prohibit the building of dual occupancy dwellings until a period of five years has elapsed since the completion of the first house on a block set aside for a single dwelling.
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