Mr DUNHAM - 2004-12-01
Is it not true, minister, that following the passage of your Planning Scheme amendments - the green book that you did not want to talk about last time - any future development application for waterfront development, the sole determining documentation - that green book, the one you did not want to talk about - which you have said in the foreword you will ‘direct the Development Consent Authority to use’. That book will allow for building heights to range from 34 m to 106 m AHD, all of which will be above the height of the escarpment? Read your foreword, down the bottom.
ANSWER
The member for Drysdale is conveniently forgetting some of the process here. Each and every building that will be built as part of this development will be subject to a development consent process. The amendments to the Planning Scheme simply give a framework for those applications to occur. As we saw, the big kafuffle the opposition was going on about last week regarding the height of the convention centre itself: it was going to bubble up over the escarpment and do all sort of things …
Members interjecting.
Dr BURNS: It could go a lot higher if it wanted to, but it is at 24 m AHD, which is acceptable.
This government has always given a commitment that the building heights within that development will, generally, be below the level of the escarpment. The advertisement in the paper clearly shows that, and for those members who want to go to the Mall and have a look at the model, which is accurate, and which will also be displayed at Casuarina in the coming weeks, will see that for themselves.
ANSWER
The member for Drysdale is conveniently forgetting some of the process here. Each and every building that will be built as part of this development will be subject to a development consent process. The amendments to the Planning Scheme simply give a framework for those applications to occur. As we saw, the big kafuffle the opposition was going on about last week regarding the height of the convention centre itself: it was going to bubble up over the escarpment and do all sort of things …
Members interjecting.
Dr BURNS: It could go a lot higher if it wanted to, but it is at 24 m AHD, which is acceptable.
This government has always given a commitment that the building heights within that development will, generally, be below the level of the escarpment. The advertisement in the paper clearly shows that, and for those members who want to go to the Mall and have a look at the model, which is accurate, and which will also be displayed at Casuarina in the coming weeks, will see that for themselves.
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