Page 5523 - Week 15 - Wednesday, 9 December 2009
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Amendments agreed to.
MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (11.53), by leave: I move the following amendment to the motion:
Omit paragraph (2)(b), substitute:
“(b) commission an additional master plan for the Erindale area, focussing in particular on the views and perspectives of local experts, businesses and residents;
(ba) take into account in developing this master plan:
(i) opportunities for business development;
(ii) an appropriate policy governing infill proposals;
(iii) the existing road structure around Erindale Centre;
(iv) transport links to and from Erindale Centre; and
(v) the need to redevelop the area around Gartside Street to enhance this as a restaurant precinct; and”
This amendment adds clarity, and I have discussed it with the two other parties. It is important that we get this right. We often start with the intention of master-planning an area but do not get the desired outcome, which is that it becomes a better place for the people of that area to live, to work and to enjoy themselves. So, for the sake of clarity, I have put these five points in.
I have taken the final line from Ms Bresnan’s motion—that in addition we focus on the views and the perspectives of the local experts, the businesses and the residents—because they are the ones who will use it the most. But, occasionally, if people like Mr Barr and Ms Le Couteur come down to enjoy the ambience that will be the new Erindale centre, they will get to enjoy it as well. For the people who live there, work there and for whom it is their daily shopping centre, it is a real chance to get it right.
For those that do not know the area, there are a number of Housing ACT residences there. There is some high density that has gone in recently. There are some new businesses that have built there. So Erindale continues to grow, but it is growing in an ad hoc manner. I acknowledge that Ms Bresnan said that we need to consult with businesses. Many people will know that there is a business incubator at Erindale; it is just across the road from the Mobil service station. There is a great opportunity to build on some of the things that Mr Hargreaves was talking about, about people not just living, working and dying in Tuggeranong—working fruitfully and living much longer in Tuggeranong. The incubator has been there for some time. I can remember it being funded back in the 1996 and the 1997 budgets by the then federal Liberal government.
There is still a large amount of migration every morning out of the Tuggeranong Valley as most people do not work in the valley. If we are serious about sustainability, this is an opportunity to create opportunities in the valley and ensure that business
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