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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 11 Hansard (30 November) . . Page.. 3523 ..
MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):
Mr Speaker, unfortunately, this either suggests a lack of understanding of capital works on the Committee's part, or the Committee had been too busy creating that imputation to recognise that not all capital works projects will be completed in their year of commitment.
In fact Mr Speaker, the larger the project, that is the more significant the initiative, the greater the possibility is that the project will not be completed in the year of commitment. It will not be feasible to complete larger projects within the year. It is also important that there is a regular flow of work to the market throughout the year.
Another comment that the Committee made was that the Mitchell Resource Recovery Station should either not have included in the program, or provision should have been made for the project to go ahead.
It appears that the Committee either did not want the disclosure of the project, or wanted the Government to allocate budget financing pre-empting the outcome of the tender process.
Mr Speaker, I commend the Government Response to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services) (3.33): Mr Speaker, for the information of members and pursuant to the resolution of the Assembly of 28 June 2000, I present the following paper:
Variation No 114 to the Territory Plan-Review-Heritage Places Register-Red Hill Housing Precinct-Review prepared for Planning and Land Management, dated October 2000.
I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Mr Speaker, in accordance with the Assembly's resolution of 28 June 2000, the ACT executive directed the ACT planning authority to review the Territory Plan as it relates to variation No 114 of the Heritage Places Register, the Red Hill housing precinct, to provide for a development intensity of not more than one dwelling on any block in the Red Hill housing precinct. Mr Speaker, the review has been completed and I now table the review report.
The review finds that one house per block is not intrinsic to the heritage character of the precinct. However, it does find that the controls within variation No 114 may not be adequate to protect the intrinsic character, which is related to the high ratio of landscape area to built form.
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