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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (11 May) . . Page.. 1518 ..

MR CORBELL (continuing):

the precinct, however limited it is, as a city we will be moving towards a slow, but gradual, undermining of the heritage significance of the precinct and its place in the planning heritage of the garden city, and I cannot support these moves.

I recommend in my dissenting report that the draft variation be amended to remove provisions for additional dwellings on blocks in the precinct, and that it instead provide for one dwelling per block only, to protect the heritage significance of the precinct. I also recommend that additional work be done to further refine the variation, once it is amended, in relation to the development of a conservation plan for the area. This is the appropriate course of action, not that proposed by the government in its draft variation, and endorsed by a majority of the planning committee.

Debate (on motion by Mr Smyth ) adjourned.

MR HIRD: Mr Speaker, I ask for leave of the parliament to make a statement on behalf of the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services concerning the work of the committee.

Leave granted.

MR HIRD: It has become the practice in this place for committees to inform members of their new activities. Accordingly, I now advise the parliament that on 14 April this year the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services resolved to report to members in this place on its activities in its second year of operation in the current parliament. We propose to table our report in the next sitting period. In the meantime, members may recall that, in May last year, the committee reported on its activities in the preceding year. My colleagues, Mr Corbell and Mr Rugendyke, and I took this action because we found it instructive to reflect on what we had done over the past 12 months.

We think there are interesting lessons to be learned from the activities and experience of busy committees such as the Planning and Urban Services Committee. On that score, our report on activities in this first year was Report No. 24. Our report on this year's activity, which follows closely on the heels of our meeting No. 100, will be Report No. 49. This itself indicates the amount of work done by this committee. I trust that members and the Canberra community generally will find our reports useful.

MR QUINLAN (5.27): Pursuant to standing order 246A, I wish to inform the Assembly that on 5 May 2000 the Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration, in its role as a public accounts committee, resolved that the following statement be made to the Assembly in relation to the Auditor-General's performance audit of the redevelopment of Bruce Stadium. I ask for leave to table a formal statement and then speak to it.

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