Page 1875 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 25 June 2008
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MR SESELJA: I table the following paper:
Proposed gas fired power station and data centre—Copy of Letter to Tom Percival, Project Manager, Land Use Planning, ACT Planning and Land Authority, from Ken Douglas, Acting Director, Economic, Regional and Planning Branch, Chief Minister’s Department, dated June 2007 (2).
CMD also conveyed this instruction to LDA officials in writing on 4 July 2007. The document states:
Whereas ACTEW will probably prefer their default option of returning to Block 7 Section 21 Hume the implications of this for industrial land supply which Mr Dawes emphasised was a priority for Government must be taken into account in reaching a final decision.
Mr Stanhope received a brief, sent on 18 July 2007, from Pam Davoren, the Acting Chief Executive of the Chief Minister’s Department. The memo is signed by Mr Stanhope himself and indicated “agreed” in his handwriting. It states:
The Broadacre site has the merit that it would not utilise Industrial land at all ... Valuations: the valuation of the Hume site appears very low, given that industrial estates have sold recently for $200 to $300/sqm. It is also way below what ACTEWAGL is budgeting for land acquisition (total of $50m for the Belconnen and Hume sites). Therefore, the valuation needs to be revisited and, until this is done, it would not be wise to discuss potential sale prices with ActewAGL.
Mr Speaker, I seek leave to table that brief.
Leave granted.
MR SESELJA: I table the following paper:
Proposed gas fired power station and data centre—Copy of Brief to the Chief Minister from Pam Davoren, dated July 2007.
Valuations were sought and obtained for various sites under consideration in June 2007. This is very significant because the deed of option which ActewAGL signed requires fresh valuations in the future if ActewAGL eventually elects to purchase a site. The valuations obtained by the LDA in June 2007 were therefore only relevant for the purposes of government decisions on the value of sites offered to ActewAGL. I seek leave to table two documents in relation to that.
Leave granted.
MR SESELJA: I table the following papers:
Proposed gas fired power station and data centre—Copies of—
Minute to Ray Stone, Senior Project Manager, Urban Development, from Michael Britton, Project Officer, Land Development Agency, dated 5 June 2007.
Extract from valuation report by Savills (Canberra).
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