Page 1188 - Week 03 - Thursday, 31 March 2011
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The answer to your question, essentially, Ms Le Couteur is within the report. You are reading just a sentence from a portion of a report which deals with issues around Dr Hawke’s view of a complexity, a multi-agency involvement in decision-making. I believe that in that very same part of the report, Dr Hawke, for instance, mentions that there were some processes in relation to land release, most particularly development. I believe that he was referring to Molonglo. Like you, Ms Le Couteur, I would return to the report and re-read it to confirm this, but I believe he was speaking about Molonglo.
Dr Hawke makes the point that from start to finish in relation to the approval process to get land in Molonglo to the point, through all the approval processes, where it could be sold involved 26 separate decision-making points across four or five departments or agencies. It was in that context, as I understand it, that Dr Hawke made the remark about the extent to which a siloing of responsibility, a non-integration of decision making in relation to issues around land release and planning most particularly led to a situation where delays were caused.
The government’s priority, for instance, in relation to affordable housing was to some extent being frustrated as a result of the time taken through a myriad of non-integrated decision-making to get land to the market. That was the context.
I have to say, Ms Le Couteur, that it is quite clear in the report that that was the context. But the context and the example that Dr Hawke was referring to there was simply about land supply and a significant government priority around housing affordability being frustrated to some extent by the time taken to get land to market. I believe he identified 26 separate decision-making points across four or five agencies in an approval process from the point where a piece of land or a development front was identified to the day when the land could be made ready for sale.
The recommendations that Dr Hawke made were designed to actually create a far more integrated approach to decision-making and land—(Time expired.)
MS LE COUTEUR: A supplementary question, Mr Speaker?
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Ms Le Couteur.
MS LE COUTEUR: Minister, what changes will need to be made to the Planning and Development Act and the Financial Management Act to implement the proposed changes to the ACT government structure, and will these changes be implemented before the commencement of the new structure, which I believe is scheduled for 1 July?
MR STANHOPE: Ms Le Couteur, the government is yet to be briefed fully or finally on the legislative implications. We have been briefed broadly. You are aware that one of Dr Hawke’s recommendations is, for instance, that the LDA be abolished and incorporated within the department of economic development or a directorate-general of economic development. I need to be clear that the government is yet to accept the specific recommendations in relation to the future structure of the LDA or of land
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