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I seek leave to make a brief statement.
Leave granted.
MRS JONES: Scrutiny report No 41 contains the committee’s comments on two bills, 12 pieces of subordinate legislation, five government responses and proposed amendments to the Electronic Conveyancing National Law (ACT) Bill 2020. The report was circulated to members when the Assembly was not sitting. I commend the report to the Assembly.
Planning and Urban Renewal—Standing Committee
Report 12
MS LE COUTEUR (Murrumbidgee) (11.43): I present the following report:
Planning and Urban Renewal—Standing Committee—Report 12—Inquiry into Engagement with Development Application Processes in the ACT, dated 29 April 2020, including additional comments (Ms Le Couteur), together with a copy of the extracts of the relevant minutes of proceedings.
I move:
That the report be noted.
This report has been a long time in the making. The inquiry was originally started in March 2018. I have the honour, I guess, of being the only continuing member of the planning committee from the time it was started to now. I would like to thank the current committee secretary, Annemieke Jongsma, and other secretaries who have assisted in this report.
The report has 270 pages. It is a substantial report and I hope it will be given a substantial amount of scrutiny. There are 66 recommendations. Those recommendations are recommendations of the whole committee and are recommendations which, we believe, will make the DA system work better.
I have additional comments, which I will move to later, but I want to make the point that the committee listened to widespread community and industry feelings about the DA system and I think you could say that there was universal agreement that things could be done to change it. I hope and suspect that ACTPLA will read our recommendations and use them partially as the basis for the next budget request. We think that the government could do a lot better in how they run the development application system.
It is very important to note that these are unanimous recommendations. This is not a party political thing saying that it should be better or worse. It is also thinking that comes from the community and development community. Some of this is really straightforward. There are things such as having development applications up on the
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