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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4569 ..

The Assembly met at 10.30 am.

(Quorum formed)

MR SPEAKER (Mr Cornwell) took the chair and asked members to stand in silence and pray or reflect on their responsibilities to the people of the Australian Capital Territory.

The Clerk: The following petition has been lodged for presentation:

By Ms Horodny, from 653 residents, requesting that the Assembly develop the Belconnen Soccer Centre in a location better suited to a sporting complex of its magnitude.

The terms of this petition will be recorded in Hansard and a copy referred to the appropriate Minister.

The petition read as follows:

To the Speaker and Members of the Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory:

The petition of certain residents of the Australian Capital Territory draws to the attention of the Assembly: that the development of the Belconnen Soccer Centre, to International standards, in McKellar section 71 will be detrimental to our local amenity. These concerns relate especially to: the large scale and extension plans, traffic volumes, crowd & traffic noise, overflow parking in residential streets, high intensity night lighting, pollution of Ginninderra Creek and Lake Ginninderra, irretrievable damage to the wetlands and a general disturbance of peace on weekends and late at night, seven days a week. Consequently we do NOT support the development of the Belconnen Soccer Centre in McKellar.

Your petitioners therefore request the Assembly to: develop this Soccer Centre in a location which is better suited to a sporting complex of this magnitude.

Petition received.

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