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MINISTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, LAND AND PLANNING

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO. 1471

Royal Canberra Golf Club - Extension Project

Mr Stefaniak - asked the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning -

(1) What is the size and location of the "minor land additions" you refer to as

necessary for the completion of the Royal Canberra Golf Club project?

(2) What, if any, is the size and location of the "publicly accessible open space" along

Dunrossil Drive that will remain if this project proceeds?

(3) Approximately how many mature trees will be felled to make way for the proposed

golf course?

What access will the wider community have to the new golf course?

(5) What procedures were in place to determine the attitude of the wider community in relation to this proposal?

Mr Wood - the answer to the Members question is as follows:

(1) Continued negotiations with the Royal Canberra Golf Club recently resulted in the

Club deciding not to pursue obtaining any additional land. The club will proceed

to develop only within the boundaries of the existing lease.

(2) A strip of Public Land 80 metres wide, in the pine plantation area, exists between

the Clubs lease boundary of the I-ees Paddock site and Dunrossil Drive.

(3) The National Capital Planning Authority has requested the lessee to provide

overlays showing the existing trees on the site, trees that are to be removed and

trees which are to be planted. I understand this information has not yet been

submitted.

(4) As the conditions of lease granted in 1984 for the golf course extension are the

same as the existing developed area, access arrangements for the wider community

are also the same.

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