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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 9 Hansard (20 August) . . Page.. 2461 ..

Development application-revocation

MR CORBELL (Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (4.05): I present the following paper:

Land (Planning and Environment) Act, pursuant to section 229A (7) (b)-Statement relating to the revocation of Development Application 20012316-Blocks 11 & 12, section 58 Turner, dated 27 June 2002.

I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the paper.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Territory Plan-variations

Papers and statement by minister

MR CORBELL (Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations): For the information of members, I present the following papers:

Land (Planning and Environment) Act, pursuant to section 29-

Variation No 189 to the Territory Plan-Commercial B2A Civic Centre Land Use Policy (Precinct b1), Community Facility Sites and Other Minor Changes.

Variation No 182 to the Territory Plan-Public Land-Nature Reserve-Yellow Box/Red Gum Grassy Woodland (Tuggeranong Hill, Mt Majura and Mulligans Flat) and the Aranda Snow Gum Site.

Variation No 164 to the Territory Plan-Community Facility Land Use Policies and Proposed Changes,

together with the background papers and copies of the summaries and reports.

I seek leave to make a brief statement in relation to each variation.

Leave granted.

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, variation No 189 proposes to vary the Territory Plan to remove the community facility land use policy on block 2 of section 84 City and replace it with a commercial B2A Civic Centre land use policy. It also proposes to remove the existing commercial B2A Civic Centre land use policy from parts of block 1 section 84 and replace it with a community facility land use policy. The variation also proposes to delete the existing major road land use policy applying to parts of Ballumbir Street and Cooyong Street where it adjoins the proposed development site and substitute the community facility land use policy and the commercial B2A land use policy precinct b1 business area respectively.

The proposal forms part of a comprehensive project to redevelop a site of approximately 4.8 hectares located in the north-eastern sector of the central business district of Canberra. The proposal triggered a mandatory preliminary assessment because it

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