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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 10 Hansard (29 August) . . Page.. 3685 ..

MR SMYTH (continuing):

We review the various sections of the Territory Plan. Part A of the Territory Plan has recently been to the urban services committee and it has raised some issue about where section master plans do fall. It has asked that they be taken out of Part A and be addressed in other locations. I am comfortable with that concept as well, and Mr Rugendyke will get formal notification of that soon.

In regard to the master plans, if I may take Jamison, for instance, as a single example, PALM has done the master plan for Jamison. They have employed a consultant on their behalf to do the master plan. It is PALM's and the government's master plan. They have put a number of ideas on paper for people to look at. Some of those will survive, some of those will not. But that is the whole point of a master planning exercise where you involve community consultation. You put forth some ideas that the community may amend. They may like them; they may change them; they may keep them; they may discard them.

Mr Rugendyke: They don't get to change much.

MR SMYTH: We have had a number of meetings where changes have been made. There will be an update out next week, and I look forward to sending Mr Rugendyke a copy.

In regard to master plans and where they sit, that is to be decided in the context of the Territory Plan. I have had several discussions with the chairs of the LAPAC, for instance, as to where they think the master plan should sit. We hope to clarify that in the future.

Ms Tucker has recommended that the executive direct the ACT Planning Authority to review the design and siting controls that apply to residential development on commercial land in local and group centres to ensure consistency with the controls on multi-unit developments in residential areas. She has also recommended that the sale of land for residential development within these centres be deferred pending the outcome of a review.

The government does not oppose a review of the conditions proposed to apply to the release of the blocks in Kaleen and Giralang referred to in Ms Tucker's motion. Such a review would ensure that references to the multi-unit design and siting code are appropriate in the circumstances. However, the government does not support the suggestion that all residential development in all group and local centres necessarily be consistent with all the controls applying to multi-unit development in residential areas because, clearly, commercial and residential areas are different and they serve different functions.

The Territory Plan provides for a hierarchy of commercial centres across Canberra to offer residents convenient access to goods, services and facilities. Mr Kaine pointed out the difference between the way in which we use our local centres and the town centres. That is part of the dilemma, as was so well pointed out.

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