Page 4281 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 25 October 2017
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Omit paragraphs (1) and (2), substitute:
“(1) notes that:
(a) the Federal Golf Club has publicly announced a proposal to redevelop part of the existing site for retirement housing;
(b) the current proposal is still in a formative stage and the proponent has not lodged a development application, a request to vary the Territory Plan or a request to vary their existing lease;
(c) the Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate convened a community panel to facilitate early engagement between the proponent and the community on issues raised by the proposal;
(d) the community panel was chaired by a Deputy Director-General from the Directorate;
(e) the community panel was always described as being conducted over three meetings and had the purpose of allowing voices to be heard, questions to be asked, and robust answers to those questions provided;
(f) the Directorate endeavoured to ensure that all the right voices were heard by specifically inviting known stakeholder groups to participate, including resident groups, environmental groups and non-government organisations, such as the Council on Ageing;
(g) in the course of the community panel meetings, several community association representatives praised the proponents for the level of openness they were displaying in sharing information about their proposal, while a number of environmental groups identified the proposal as being the ‘best’ that has been developed over the years;
(h) in finalising the community panel process, the panel chair asked panel members to help populate a list of questions that could be reported in a panel report;
(i) a draft of the panel report was provided to members of the panel on 20 October 2017 for their consideration and review, with finalisation of the report to occur following the receipt of comments from panel members; and
(j) panel members have also been given the opportunity to append a statement to the main report to ensure that their views are reported in their own words, accurately and in full;
(2) further notes that:
(a) the community panel process does not replace the need for formal statutory consultation at any further stage of the Territory Plan Variation, lease variation or development assessment process;
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