Page 2171 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 5 June 2019
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contemporary planning practices and available evidence. The Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate plans for social infrastructure across Canberra at a broad level, creating a framework of community facility land across our urban and suburban areas. When communities are growing and changing, the directorate will consider the most appropriate community use for community facility zoned land.
To do this the directorate may undertake a site-based community facility needs assessment. Typically, these site-based assessments are developed considering existing and planned community facilities and open space in the vicinity, as well as assessing demographics to understand the current and future population. From this analysis recommendations may be made about the most appropriate community use to meet the needs of the existing and future community. The directorate is currently undertaking a community and recreation needs assessment and a commercial market assessment to look at the range of suitable uses of the land in Casey.
The government will engage the community on the future uses of the land, a process that will be framed by the scope of the needs assessment for Casey. EPSDD will look for an opportunity to discuss with the community the research that informs determining the most appropriate community facility and recreational land uses and will include providing an initial summary of existing local facilities and services, including existing open space areas, and confirming the current and permitted uses for the identified sites in Casey. The directorate can also make the findings and analysis available to the community.
The conversation with the community about Casey will complement the existing work of the Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate in the development of a needs assessment and its social infrastructure investigations for our city more broadly. I thank Mr Pettersson for his ongoing interest in planning for the social infrastructure needs of our community.
MR PETTERSSON (Yerrabi) (5.44), in reply: I thank all members of this place for their contributions—some of more value than others but all interesting. Issues such as this undeveloped land in Casey can be a major source of frustration for local residents. That is why it is so important that we discuss these things in this place. I thank Minister Gentlemen for his contribution. I thought it was particularly enlightening. I am glad that the government is on board to prioritise the consultation and development of this land.
The residents of Casey have waited too long, and I hope that we can deliver this for them sooner rather than later. Gungahlin is one of the fastest growing places in this country, but that does not necessarily mean that blocks of land in Casey have kept up. We need to make sure that the amenities and public spaces are developed at the same rate as our suburbs. It is the only way we can make sure that Gungahlin remains a great place to live. Casey has grown so much since it was established. It is home to an amazing community and they are deserving of a complete suburb.
The two blocks that are in question are in a prime central location, and it is so frustrating that they lie vacant. We can develop these blocks and it is about time we
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