Page 1531 - Week 05 - Wednesday, 10 May 2017
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The dwellings will be allocated under the Housing Assistance Act 2007 to eligible public housing tenants who are assessed as having support needs that cannot be met by the private rental market. Support services such as counselling, financial literacy, domestic assistance and personal care will be delivered both on and off the site depending on the needs of the tenants as identified in their individual support plan. The current proposals provide benefit to the community. They meet the objectives of the CFZ zone, they facilitate social sustainability and inclusion and they encourage adaptable and affordable housing.
I would now like to provide a brief explanation of technical amendments to the Territory Plan, including when they can be used and when consultation is required.
The Territory Plan provides the policy framework for the administration of planning in the ACT. The statutory requirements for how the Territory Plan is changed are set out in part 5 of the Planning and Development Act. These requirements include those for technical amendments which are minor changes to the Territory Plan. They include clerical, routine, language, technical, operational and other minor policy updates.
Proposals for technical amendments must satisfy the requirements of the Planning and Development Act. If a proposal does not meet the requirements, a full Territory Plan variation is required. Technical amendments to the Territory Plan are not required to be referred to the Legislative Assembly, although they must be notified on the legislation register.
Technical amendments to the Territory Plan broadly are grouped into two categories under the Planning and Development Act. The first is the administrative technical amendments that do not require public consultation. The second is substantive technical amendments that can involve relatively minor policy change and require a minimum of 20 days of public consultation. There are currently five types of administrative technical amendments: (1) the correction of errors; (2) zone or overlay boundary changes if the change is in accordance with the original intent of the boundary line and the affected property is unleased territory land; (3) the removal of a future urban area overlay, FUA overlay, once an estate development plan has been approved; (4) bringing the Territory Plan into line with the National Capital Plan; and (5) removal of redundant provisions. An example of a boundary change would be amending the boundary of a nature reserve to align with a property boundary or fence line if the reserve boundary did not already follow this line.
Given the number of greenfield estates being developed in the ACT, one of the most common types of technical amendment is the removal of the FUA overlay once an estate development plan has been approved. Before this time, the zoning applicable to the site is indicative only, but it is “locked in” once the FUA overlay is removed.
There are six types of substantive technical amendments: (1) code variations that are consistent with the policy purpose and policy framework of the code; (2) zone boundary changes where development encroaches onto adjoining territory land; (3)
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