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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (9 May) . . Page.. 1313 ..
MR RUGENDYKE (4.34): Mr Speaker. I ask for leave to present report No 46 of the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services.
Leave granted.
MR RUGENDYKE: I present report No 46 of the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services entitled Draft Variation to the Territory Plan No 110 relating to a proposal to add to the Heritage Places Register the following three places- Northbourne Oval, Braddon; Ainslie Public and Primary Schools, Braddon; and Ginninderra Village Precinct, Nicholls, together with a copy of the extracts of the minutes of proceedings. This report was provided to the Speaker for circulation on Thursday, 4 May 2000, pursuant to the resolution of appointment. I move:
That the report be noted.
I have pleasure in tabling this report by the Planning and Urban Services Committee. The report deals with three additions to the Heritage Places Register. Two of them were not controversial, Northbourne Oval and the Ginninderra Village Precinct, but the third, involving Ainslie Public School, generated some interest and attention.
The committee has recommended that the draft variation be endorsed but with one amendment to the section dealing with Ainslie School. We say that the conservation policy for the school should be amended to the effect that, "the site's conservation is best achieved through continued use of the site for educational purposes". Our reason for making this recommendation is that we think, as a committee, that it is appropriate to recognise the deep and on-going attachment of many in our community to the educational heritage of the site. Mr Speaker, in 1958 I was a student of that school. My only recollection of that time is of crying on the side of the road at the end of the school day and thinking that I had been deserted by my family, since dad was late picking me up.
Mr Speaker, I should add that I am tabling this report today as deputy chair of the committee. I do so because the chair, Mr Hird, wished to ensure that there was no possibility of any conflict of interest arising out of his unpaid position as director of a club near Northbourne Oval, one of the places affected by the draft variation. Therefore, Mr Hird took no part in the final deliberations on the nature of this report. I commend the report to the house.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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