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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 7 Hansard (4 June) . . Page.. 1887 ..
MR CORBELL (continuing):
The recommended policies in the variation I have tabled represent a significant step forward from the existing policies in the Territory Plan, which have been the subject of much criticism because of their unnecessary complexity and inflexibility.
Policies in variation 158, contrary to Mrs Dunne's assertions, have now been substantially streamlined. They offer clear objectives for group centres and the precincts within them, and they provide sufficient flexibility to enable individual centres to adapt to changing circumstances. However, there is also a very clear protection, in that significant proposals that have the potential to significantly change the character of a centre, if supported, will only be possible where they have been subject to detailed scrutiny and transparent processes through a separate variation to the Territory Plan. This is one of the key recommendations of the Planning and Urban Services Committee of the last Assembly and, as with all those recommendations, they have been broadly supported by the government.
The separate variation No 163, which the previous government introduced for Kippax, has now been formally withdrawn by PALM. Variation 158 now incorporates the committee's recommendations for the Kippax centre. The committee's other recommendations about the form of the final variation have all been responded to positively, and appropriate changes have been incorporated into variation No 158.
Mrs Dunne's motion is motivated by the way the variation deals with the Kippax centre and by concerns about restrictions in the variation on the location of certain residential uses in the Calwell group centre. The provisions within variation No 158 for Kippax are entirely consistent with the recommendations in Report No 72 of the Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services.
The committee did not support the development of a major supermarket on the site currently occupied by the Kippax Pool and Fitness Centre, and the government has agreed with that recommendation. The committee recommended that provision be made for a limited expansion of precinct "a", the retail core, and that such expansion not be separated from the existing retail core. That is what draft variation No 158 proposes.
Mrs Dunne's proposed amendment to the draft variation, which suggests that section 53 should not be included in precinct "a", is curious. Mrs Dunne, in her motion, says that she will reject the inclusion of section 53 in precinct "a" of the Kippax group centre. Mr Speaker, section 53 at Kippax is currently in precinct "b", and draft variation No 158 does not change it to precinct "a". I think Mrs Dunne has confused sections with blocks. Draft variation 158 proposes to incorporate block 53, section 51, into the retail core precinct, which is precinct "a".
Mr Hargreaves: Remember Kinlyside?
MR CORBELL
: Hall/Kinlyside indeed, Mr Hargreaves. The policy framework established by draft variation 158 allows the flexibility to resolve how to best accommodate and co-locate future uses on the land between the existing library and Kippax Fair, including for necessary community facilities. It means that the existing block boundaries do not impose constraints on the location, size or shape of structures. The entire piece of vacant precinct "a" area can be reconfigured into appropriate blocks
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