Page 2469 - Week 08 - Thursday, 6 August 2015
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community to provide input and feedback on the project. This includes consultation activities on the early design, the urban design and most recently the draft environmental impact statement. An example of a recent cap metro engagement initiative is the place manager program which commenced on 8 July and is ongoing.
Capital metro has engaged business and community through the establishment and engagement of business and community reference groups. Throughout July nominations were open for people interested in becoming a member of the community or business reference group for the light rail project and the Capital Metro Agency received an overwhelming response from people wishing to be involved in a light rail reference group with more than 70 nominations received. Mr Assistant Speaker, the engagement activities that the asbestos response task force is carrying out as part of the demolition of houses affected by Mr Fluffy is perhaps our most intensive engagement on a single issue ever undertaken by this government, underway since the establishment of the task force on 25 June 2014. The task force has used all forms and channels of communication for engagement: social, web, doorknocking, forums, emails, meetings, direct phone calls, stakeholder presentations, home owner morning teas and face-to-face meetings with home owners.
Some of the examples of engagement include the case model approach which uses a dedicated and experienced personal support team; direct meetings with members of the task force, actually thousands since 25 June 2015; home owner specific forums meeting across the community, 568 since the start of this year and this allowed owners to meet the task force in their areas; specific engagement of and support from ACT Medicare Local; neighbour-specific forums. They have conducted letterbox drops to those in cluster areas of 1,000 and over and conducted letterbox drops to neighbours around the next 30 houses to be demolished, 800-plus across 24 suburbs, with a targeted information pack included.
Around the five pilot demolition properties, the task force undertook door-to-door doorknocking of neighbours four times at each stage of the process to inform them and seek feedback on information provided to target broader communications and engagement. There were 660 direct contacts during that process; 24,818 users engaged in online forums and engagement activities; 36 e-newsletters emailed directly to 2,580 subscribers for each issue; 912 followers on Facebook and 228 proactive posts; nine videos explaining the processes on YouTube; nine public forums held to date with early ones attracting 400 people; 14 community council meetings attended by task force staff with a total of 295 people in attendance at all.
As Minister for Planning in the ACT, let me say that there is an engaged community with an interest in planning matters across the territory and it is a consultation process which is at the core focus of my directorate. Since the beginning of this year consultations have included those on the minister’s statement of planning intent. I personally attended six stakeholder workshops held with peak community groups, peak industry and business groups, academia and the heads of government agencies, children and young people, and older persons. We had over 100 people attend the workshops, and over 50 written submissions and feedback forms were received.
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