Page 3911 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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(iii) whether there is need for a Park and Ride; and
(iv) the existing road structure;
(d) report to the Legislative Assembly with a completed Kambah Village Master Plan by the first sitting week in September 2011; and
(e) develop a process for meaningful consultation with the Canberra community on planning, by:
(i) improving Canberra wide consultation on planning issues such as DV301 and DV303;
(ii) developing a priority list of areas on the basis of need, reflected through community consultation, to be master planned and subject to further localised planning;
(iii) undertaking localised planning and consultation in suburban areas and town, group and local centres where significant changes are anticipated;
(iv) incorporating these master plans and precinct plans into the Territory Plan; and
(v) reporting back to the Assembly by end June 2011 with the results of the priority list.”.
I am very pleased that there seems to be quite a degree of unanimity from the two sides that have already spoken on the need for planning and on the need to do something positive for Kambah. I will go briefly through my proposed amendment; my colleague Ms Bresnan will speak at more length about the issues with Kambah itself. Not being a Brindabella member, I do not have as good knowledge as her; I will stay more with the planning issues.
The first part of my amendment basically comes from Mr Smyth’s motion. It is not a total replacement except for paragraph 1(c), where we note, as the government has said:
… that the Government is embarking on consultation relating to the expansion of the supermarket in Kambah Village …
As the government in particular, and also Mr Smyth, have mentioned, this brings us an opportunity to do something a lot better that what is happening at present.
My next new point is that there is widespread community concern about local concerns for suburbs and shops around Canberra. It is not just Kambah. As Mr Stanhope said, we have a lot of shopping centres which have issues to a greater or lesser extent. I am a resident of Downer. Downer shopping centre has not had any shops for quite some years and has some quite significant problems, some of which I could probably argue are bigger than those of Kambah.
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