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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 10 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3396 ..

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY FOR THE

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

QUESTION ON NOTICE NUMBER 462

Development Applications

On 4 September 1997, Ms McRae asked the following question of the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning:

462 MS McRAE: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning -

(1) Can the Minister provide details of every development application lodged in (a) 1995, (b) 1996 and (c) 1997.

(2) How many of these have been successful.

(3) How long did each application take to process from the time of lodgement to completion.

(4) In each case, can the Minister provide a brief description of what each development entailed.

The answer to the Member's question is:

As I told Ms McRae in the Legislative Assembly on 4 September 1997, the resources required to provide answers to these questions would be so significant that I cannot justify their allocation. This decision is consistent with decisions made by the former Labor Government, on occasions where a requirement to allocate resources to answer a question was so significant that it could not be justified.

I indicated in the Assembly to Ms McRae that I have been advised that the number of development applications and the average time to deal with them for the years requested are as follows:

Year Nbr of development Average processing time
applications (in working days)

1995 960 57

1996 853 38.6

1997 (to 4/9/97) 518 19.5

Gary Humphries MLA

Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning

22 SEP 1997

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