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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 4 Hansard (9 April) . . Page.. 845 ..

MR CORBELL (continuing):

Variation No 176 was submitted to the executive of the previous government in August last year. It was referred to the secretary of the then Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services, with a request that it be referred for consideration by an appropriate committee of the Assembly as soon as possible after the election. That committee is the Standing Committee on Planning and Environment, chaired by Mrs Dunne.

Following its establishment, the Planning and Environment Committee considered the draft variation and tabled its report in the Assembly on 19 February this year. The committee's report made four recommendations about variation No 176. The first was that the final variation, together with any associated action in the determination of a master plan, maintain the provision of the local centre. The government agrees with this recommendation. There is no intention to remove this provision, either as part of the final variation or in any future determination of a master plan for the area.

The second recommendation was that no development in the area of the exit to Braybrooke Street be approved without buffer zones and noise attenuation appropriate to a road with the capacity of the Gungahlin Drive extension. The government also agrees to this recommendation. The land in this location is territory land and is not programmed for release before the expected construction date of the Gungahlin Drive extension. In the unlikely event that the land is proposed to be released before the construction of the road, the government undertakes to abide by this committee's recommendation.

Regardless of when development occurs, the policies in the variation require that any residential development in this locality be constructed to meet the criteria set out in the relevant Australian Standards:

  • Australian Standard 2107-1987-Recommended Design Sound Levels and Reverberation Times for Building Interiors; and

  • Australian Standard 3671-1989-Acoustics - Road Traffic Noise - Building Siting and Construction.

The third recommendation is that an R, or "subject to review", overlay be placed in section 75 blocks 1 and 4 and a contiguous area of section 85 pending commencement on the work for the Gungahlin Drive extension. The government also agrees to this recommendation, and the overlay has been included in the revised variation I will table today. However, it should be noted that the overlay may subsequently be removed by the future variation to the Territory Plan associated with the western alignment of the Gungahlin Drive extension.

The fourth recommendation was that residential land immediately north of the Braybrooke Street intersection to the intersection of Ginninderra Drive, which the committee has recommended be subject to the R overlay, not be released for sale until work has commenced on the Gungahlin Drive extension. Again, the government agrees with this recommendation. The land in this location is territory land and will not be programmed for release before the construction work on the Gungahlin Drive extension is commenced.

The government thanks the committee for its report and trusts that it is satisfied with the response I have announced today.

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