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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (10 July) . . Page.. 2467 ..

(4) Most of the enquiries relating to the building covenant were received during the week 25-28 April. Once the decision was made to delete the covenant it was notified four times under Public Notices in the Canberra Times commencing 6 days before applications closed and within the Real Estate section 4 days before applications closed.

(5) Yes.

(6) This land formed part of an offer of land to Harcourt Hill Estate Winery. The land was subsequently excluded from the offer as being no longer required by Harcourt Hill Estate Winery as it sought to acquire, in its place, additional land adjacent to the northern boundary of its land under offer.

The main reason for the "swap" was a statutory ruling to increase the casement width of the numerous electricity transmission lines, that traverse the block, from 10 metres to 20 metres. This severely limited the area available for vine planting.

The value of the resulting land to be granted to Harcourt Hill Estate Winery is to be re-assessed on the same basis as the original offer.

The auction of Block 680 Majura was keenly contested on Wednesday 31 May and sold for $160,000 to L & G Margules, local rural lessees, who propose to graze cattle on the block.

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