Page 4064 - Week 13 - Thursday, 6 December 2007
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units; Tamil Senior Citizens at Isaacs, four supportive housing; Calvary, 48 ILU were completed in the past few months; and Calvary at Bruce, 100 beds and an additional 30 independent living units. That was opened by the Deputy Chief Minister just recently.
There are other projects currently under construction. There is Goodwin at Ainslie, with 103 beds and 148 independent living units. Completion is expected in February 2008. This is my point about the Auditor-General’s report. There are another 103 beds to be completed in two months. At Ridgecrest, Page, there will be an additional 24 independent living units; Southern Cross Care, Campbell, an additional 40 beds; and Illawarra Retirement Trust, Lake Ginninderra, 100 beds and 150 independent living units. It was my pleasure and honour to turn the first sod just two weeks ago.
Development approval has been received for St Andrew’s at Hughes, and a 74-bed construction is to start this month. At Mirrinjani, Weston, there will be 64 beds; construction started last month. Goodwin at Monash will have 110 beds and 150 independent living units. There is continuing negotiation and some level of dispute between the ACT government and Goodwin in relation to the price of the land.
A development application has been received from the Salvation Army, Narrabundah, which is currently under consideration, for 75 independent living units. United Care, Gordon, is currently designing 110 beds and 61 independent living units. An offer of land has been made to Uniting Care, Gordon. Baptist Community Services, Griffith, is designing 160 beds. The development application is expected in a few months time. The Baptist Community Services, Red Hill, is designing 100 supported housing units. The DA is expected in a few months.
Baptist Community Services, Nicholls, is designing 100 beds and 150 independent living units. We are currently negotiating the formal offer of land for that and expect that to be completed within a month. The Mandir ashram at Farrer is designing 60 beds and 80 independent living units.
That is the work recently completed, the work in hand and the work in relation to which design is currently being undertaken. The above accounts for 516 new beds just constructed, under construction or in design; and 500 independent living units and supported accommodation units under or ready to commence construction. In addition to those numbers I have just indicated, we will suggest an additional 430 beds and 366 supported accommodation units or independent living units, for which development applications are currently being assessed.
It gives some indication of the level of activity within the sector and the seamless planning arrangements currently in place to ensure that we are ahead of the game, we have a land bank and the sites have been identified. They are now there for an application once the beds have been granted. We will be changing the way in which we relate to this sector. There was this notion that there be a direct grant of land and the beds allocated, as was the case with the Illawarra Retirement Trust. It was an allocation of beds which accompanied the direct grant of land by the ACT. Two years after the allocation and after the direct grant—even 17 months after the development application—work has not commenced. We can and will deal with that particular issue.
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