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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 8 Hansard (26 June) . . Page.. 2154 ..

MS TUCKER (continuing):

development of a local area plan, and that has not occurred at this point. That is what we are asking for; that the whole thing is treated more carefully, because right now we could end up with the monoculture that we see in Torrens Street and Kingston, and it is not what people want. I understand that you said that you are reviewing it today, and that is great. This has been on the notice paper for some time. I am pleased to hear that you are looking at it and that you recognise that there are some difficulties. Hopefully, this situation will actually improve.

There are questions about developments for which approval is being sought now. There are a couple in the Turner area that have a long history, which I am sure you are very familiar with. It is interesting to think what will happen if you are revising with the local community what is appropriate in the guidelines and trying to make the thing work better. Are these developments going to be approved because they are what is acceptable now? But they will be totally out of character later with what the revised guidelines or processes end up saying is desirable. You also spoke about the signal to the community about the B1 zone. It is not necessarily a comfortable signal that they are getting.

I understand also that the Planning Authority and the Housing Trust are taking on local area planning of some kind. You probably know more about that than I do, but it would be interesting to know. Apparently that was discussed last night as well. That is a new initiative of yours apparently. How does that fit in with the general community consultation and the LAPACs as they are occurring? I also understand that last night there was discussion that the B1 zone, the three storeys, would be fine two streets back from Northbourne Avenue. That would be of grave concern to people in some of the suburbs there. I am not sure that they are going to be happy with that.

Mr Humphries: But others are arguing for it.

MS TUCKER: I beg your pardon?

Mr Humphries: But others are arguing for it. They want it.

MS TUCKER: Yes, that is right. Of course. You always have conflicting interests. What we are asking for is a local area plan, not just this B1 zone as it is. You say you are moving away from that, and that is good. This motion is about encouraging discussion on that. It was something that we put up in frustration with what the processes have been so far. Obviously we are not going to get the support of the Labor Party on this one either, which is interesting because I thought they were fairly supportive of Lansdown and he felt that the whole thing needed to be looked at. We will see how you work with that, and I hope that we can work with you.

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