Page 4096 - Week 13 - Thursday, 6 December 2007
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all agree that one of the most basic of human needs is the response to climate change, something the Prime Minister has identified as the great moral and economic challenge of our time.
Implementing the affordable housing action plan to meet the aspirations of Canberrans for home ownership is the government’s number one priority and my number one priority in the planning portfolio. To assist with meeting our policy objections for affordable housing, the government will establish and maintain five years supply of planning-ready land. That equates to around 11,000 blocks.
The government is also, of course, implementing a range of other housing affordability initiatives. These initiatives include the development of a compact housing policy, the introduction of a land rent scheme and the progressing of en globo land sales as part of a five-year land release program.
I am committed to Gungahlin growing and prospering. Accordingly, the government is continuing to make planning-ready land available in Gungahlin. Specifically, concept plans have been completed and adopted as planning guidelines under the territory plan for the suburbs of Bonner, Casey, Crace and Forde.
The planning and land authority is currently finalising further concept plans for the Flemington Road corridor, and that concept plan is being completed and will be adopted as a planning guideline by the end of this year. The corridor includes high-density residential development in the order of 1,225 dwellings and mixed use and commercial sites on either side of Flemington Road in Harrison and Franklin. ACTPLA presented the draft concept plan to the Gungahlin Community Council on 14 November this year, and I am pleased to advise the Assembly it has received very positive feedback.
ACTPLA is also concluding investigations for the Ngunnawal 2C residential estate concept plan that contains approximately 425 dwellings. This concept plan has been finalised by the LDA and is currently being reviewed by the planning and land authority. It is anticipated that the concept plan will also be adopted as a planning guideline by the end of this year.
ACTPLA has also commenced concept planning for the future suburbs of Moncrieff, approximately 1,800 dwellings; Kenny, including part of Harrison, 4,000 dwellings; and the ACT component of Lawson, approximately 1,000 dwellings. In relation to Moncrieff, it is proposed that a streamlined principles concept plan will also be completed and adopted as a planning guideline by the end of this year. This will ensure that land release in Moncrieff is not delayed by the introduction of the new territory plan and its processes relating to concept plans. Planning and related studies are continuing, and any resultant changes to the concept plan will be undertaken as an administrative or technical change to the concept plan in 2008 under the provisions of the new Planning and Development Act.
I will now take some time to go through the work that is being undertaken on estate development plans as part of the process for having planning-ready land available. The estate development plan development application for Macgregor west stage 1A,
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