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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 12 Hansard (25 November) . . Page.. 3732 ..
MR SMYTH (continuing):
planning bodies. The precinct is also significant as an illustration of early residential ideas. The precinct has direct associations with the work of Walter Burley Griffin, John Sulman, John Butters of the Federal Capital Commission, and Thomas Weston.
The Wakefield Gardens precinct is also significant as an exemplar of the early twentieth century planned garden city suburban precinct. It is also significant as an illustration of early Canberra residential ideals, combining in one subdivision residential, commercial and open space. The Beaufort steel house, within the precinct, is important as a rare prototype intended for mass production. It uses prefabricated steel construction extensively. The type is very rare and this is the only example built in the ACT. The Wakefield Gardens precinct also has direct associations with the work of Walter Burley Griffin, John Sulman, John Butters and Thomas Weston.
The Evans Crescent housing is an excellent example of the inter-war functionalist style housing which, at the time of its construction in 1940, was relatively new in Australia. This style is comparatively rare in the ACT, as are examples which are as comparatively intact.
The Standing Committee on Urban Services considered the draft variation and in Report No. 34 of November 1999 endorsed the variation. In doing so, the committee made two recommendations. The first one was:
The committee recommends that PALM inform people who lodge submissions with it, in relation to a draft Variation to the Territory Plan which has been revised in the light of public comment, that a revised version of the document has been forwarded to the Executive (and this committee) and is available for inspection in libraries and at PALM's Shopfront.
When PALM submits a draft variation to the Executive, it is required by the Land Act to place a notice in the Gazette and the Canberra Times advertising that the documents submitted are available for inspection at libraries and at the PALM shopfront. In the past, these notices have not always indicated whether the submitted documents have been revised following public consultation. In the case of draft variation No. 102, this led to misunderstandings about the content of the documents being considered by the committee.
To avoid this issue occurring again in the future, PALM has begun including a statement in the notices advising whether the submitted variation has been revised. Where a variation has been revised, PALM is now also publishing the revised document on its Territory Plan online website as well as making it available for inspection at public libraries and the PALM shopfront, as required by the Land Act.
The second recommendation of the committee was:
The committee recommends that the legislative provisions relating to the registration of heritage places be reviewed.
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