Page 536 - Week 02 - Wednesday, 20 February 2019
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centre would play a crucial role in expanding and developing these activities and providing locals with the opportunity to get more involved within their community.
The Gungahlin community has previously called for an increase in the number of community facilities in the region to support the existing community activities and to enable their growth. For a new, dedicated community services centre to be established, there needs to be a more in-depth analysis of these areas so that the ACT government can provide the Gungahlin community with the most effective community centres possible. The only way to achieve this is to undertake a proper feasibility study to get the ball rolling on these much-needed services.
With all this in mind, I am pleased to be able to move this motion that calls on the ACT government to explore the feasibility of establishing a dedicated community centre in the Gungahlin town centre, taking into consideration the diverse needs of the Gungahlin community, the benefits of a central and easily accessible location, the option for including arts facilities as part of the centre, and programs or activities that could be facilitated within a community centre to enliven the Gungahlin town centre.
This will allow the community and government to work together to capture the full and complete picture of precisely what services the community centre should provide, how it will provide them and where it will provide them. The consultation process for a development such as this must reach out to the community stakeholders so that we are able to get on with the job of providing them with the high quality community services centre that they deserve.
I would also like to note that this motion calls on the ACT government to directly engage with the Gungahlin community as part of the feasibility study process to better understand their social infrastructure needs. I will be engaging with local residents and community groups to ensure that their needs are included in the process. I look forward to providing their feedback to the ACT government. I commend this motion to the Assembly.
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (5.59): I support the premise of Ms Orr’s motion. Once upon a time in the Seventh Assembly, as a member for Molonglo, Gungahlin was also part of my electorate, and it was very obvious at that stage that Gungahlin had many infrastructure needs. The other thing that was interesting in comparing Gungahlin with the rest of the electorate of Molonglo was that while Gungahlin lacked infrastructure the rest of the electorate, which was a lot older, had infrastructure that was old and in very poor condition. I think particularly of playgrounds that were put in Gungahlin that people in the rest of the electorate of Molonglo would have given their eye teeth for. That is the function of the time an area is developed.
That brings me to the issue of redevelopment, and, by leave, I move the following amendments together:
(1) Insert new paragraph (1A):
“(1A) further notes that:
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