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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 03 Hansard (Tuesday, 9 March 2004) . . Page.. 893 ..

The police officer said that that was correct. He concurred that there were very dangerous traffic conditions within Whitehaven and, in fact, that it was the same in the other two stages—I think he said there were two other stages of Whitehaven.

If that is the case, and you seem to be aware of it, I am interested to know what have you done to ensure that private developments that you have been responsible for in government—and I assume that you were not responsible for Whitehaven; I do not know when it stated—

Mr Corbell: 1995-96.

MS TUCKER: 1995-96. So that was Mrs Carnell. My question is: what have you done to ensure that in fact you do not have dangerous traffic arrangements in private developments?

MR CORBELL: Mr Speaker, it is a very difficult issue. For any development application for a multi-unit development, the traffic circulation and parking issues are usually dealt with by Roads ACT as part of the interagency approval for any development which involves public/private roadway interaction.

The issue is a difficult one. The key issue that we are seeking to get is a high quality design outcome and the road network within any private estate has to be considered as part of that process. So we try to capture it through the high quality sustainable design process. We seek to ensure that we create logical and safe transport connections within an estate as well as how the estate connects to public areas outside of the private lease. But it depends very much on the individual circumstances of the site and the proposed development that comes forward. So there are principles that are applied as part of the planning and development process and they are sought to be implemented, as far as is practicable, given the individual circumstances of those estates.

MS TUCKER: Mr Speaker, I ask a supplementary question. The issue of double lane roundabouts was also raised.

MR SPEAKER: Come to the point of the question.

MS TUCKER: The question is: what have you done in terms of designing future suburbs to take into account concerns such as those raised at this meeting around issues of having double lane roundabouts and lack of walkability in those suburbs?

MR CORBELL: There is no doubt about it that the urban design outcomes under the highly decentralised land development process that we inherited from the Liberal Party led to some poor outcomes. I think everyone in this place would accept that some of the development outcomes in our new suburbs are not what they should be.

Mr Smyth: Most of them done under you guys.

MR CORBELL: For that reason, Mr Speaker—

Mr Smyth: Don’t blame us. We cleaned up your mess.

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