❓ The Minister for Lands updates the house on the government's asset sales process, focusing on the orderly sale of surplus government land, including metropolitan lots and hospital sites, to address state debt. The process involves de-risking sites and coordinating with an asset sales task force.
AnsweredQoN 759Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
GOVERNMENT-OWNED
PROPERTIES — SALE
759. Ms E. EVANGEL to the
Minister for Lands:
Further to the Premier's comments, following the land
sales announcement earlier this morning, could the Minister for Lands please
update the house on this important element of the state government's
asset sales process?
PROPERTIES — SALE
759. Ms E. EVANGEL to the
Minister for Lands:
Further to the Premier's comments, following the land
sales announcement earlier this morning, could the Minister for Lands please
update the house on this important element of the state government's
asset sales process?
AnswerView source ↗
I thank the member for Perth for the question and for her
strong support of the government's position around asset sales. It is
not unknown —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Albany, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : It
is certainly not unknown that this has been on the cards. The government has
had on the table since the last budget that it would progress with a very
orderly, coordinated management of the sale of land that is excess to
government needs. As the Premier highlighted, there are 140 000 parcels of land
across the state. Anyone opposite with experience of government knows that there
are lots of land lots right across the state that are surplus to needs.
Obviously we have to work through a very careful process to ensure that the
core business of government, and therefore the land that supports that, must be
the first gate that it goes through. Past that, the Premier and I announced
this morning the first 20 lots—all metropolitan lots; quite significant
lots including five hospital sites—that are surplus to government
needs.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Bassendean, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN :
These lots are —
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN :
These lots are surplus to government needs. They will be dealt with in a very
managed way. It might take 18 months to two years in some cases to go through a
number of issues with these sites to be able to ''de-risk'' them—in
some cases, to rezone those sites. In announcing this today, we are signalling
to the private sector, the development market, that these —
Mr P. Papalia interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Warnbro, I call you to order for the second time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I
point out that land is bought and sold across government every day of the week.
Ms R. Saffioti interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for West Swan, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I
point out that land is bought and sold by government every day of the week. It
is not new. We are taking a very coordinated approach to land asset sales to
help with the state's debt issues. That is a reasonable position of
government. Today, we signalled to the private sector that there are 20 lots in
the Perth metropolitan area. There are a number of things that need to be done
on some of those sites to de-risk them. Of course, the more de-risking that
government can do in terms of contamination, heritage issues and all the other
things—it might well be zoning—that will help the private
sector come to the table and look at those assets for development.
We are coordinating that through the asset sales task force
in respect of land asset sales. The Department of Lands is taking a role in
that. Concurrent with today's announcement is the identification of
some 450 lots and parcels of land that are surplus to government needs that we
will manage the process to market. I might add that the land asset advisory
group, made up of the directors general of the agencies that have land control
and planning and the like, will advise government on the appropriate strategy
to bring those to market. A number of things are really critical to this—the
first one being the taxpayers of Western Australia need confidence they will
get the highest and best value for those lots. We are working through a process
to ensure that —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Bassendean, I call you to order for the second time. Minister, wind
it up, please.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : We
are working through a process to get the highest and best value for those lots.
We are also working on the best process to bring those to market so there is no
impact or flood onto the market. It takes time. It is not something that
happens instantly. There are lots that will immediately come onto the market.
There are lots that will have a certain amount of de-risking before we get to
the final sale point.
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the second time. Minister, wind
it up, please.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : It
is expected that these lots will yield in the order of $250 million, but of
course that depends on the final market when the decision is made to sell those
lots. I reinforce that we are working through this in a very methodical,
managed and coordinated way.
strong support of the government's position around asset sales. It is
not unknown —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Albany, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : It
is certainly not unknown that this has been on the cards. The government has
had on the table since the last budget that it would progress with a very
orderly, coordinated management of the sale of land that is excess to
government needs. As the Premier highlighted, there are 140 000 parcels of land
across the state. Anyone opposite with experience of government knows that there
are lots of land lots right across the state that are surplus to needs.
Obviously we have to work through a very careful process to ensure that the
core business of government, and therefore the land that supports that, must be
the first gate that it goes through. Past that, the Premier and I announced
this morning the first 20 lots—all metropolitan lots; quite significant
lots including five hospital sites—that are surplus to government
needs.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Bassendean, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN :
These lots are —
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN :
These lots are surplus to government needs. They will be dealt with in a very
managed way. It might take 18 months to two years in some cases to go through a
number of issues with these sites to be able to ''de-risk'' them—in
some cases, to rezone those sites. In announcing this today, we are signalling
to the private sector, the development market, that these —
Mr P. Papalia interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Warnbro, I call you to order for the second time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I
point out that land is bought and sold across government every day of the week.
Ms R. Saffioti interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for West Swan, I call you to order for the first time.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : I
point out that land is bought and sold by government every day of the week. It
is not new. We are taking a very coordinated approach to land asset sales to
help with the state's debt issues. That is a reasonable position of
government. Today, we signalled to the private sector that there are 20 lots in
the Perth metropolitan area. There are a number of things that need to be done
on some of those sites to de-risk them. Of course, the more de-risking that
government can do in terms of contamination, heritage issues and all the other
things—it might well be zoning—that will help the private
sector come to the table and look at those assets for development.
We are coordinating that through the asset sales task force
in respect of land asset sales. The Department of Lands is taking a role in
that. Concurrent with today's announcement is the identification of
some 450 lots and parcels of land that are surplus to government needs that we
will manage the process to market. I might add that the land asset advisory
group, made up of the directors general of the agencies that have land control
and planning and the like, will advise government on the appropriate strategy
to bring those to market. A number of things are really critical to this—the
first one being the taxpayers of Western Australia need confidence they will
get the highest and best value for those lots. We are working through a process
to ensure that —
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Bassendean, I call you to order for the second time. Minister, wind
it up, please.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : We
are working through a process to get the highest and best value for those lots.
We are also working on the best process to bring those to market so there is no
impact or flood onto the market. It takes time. It is not something that
happens instantly. There are lots that will immediately come onto the market.
There are lots that will have a certain amount of de-risking before we get to
the final sale point.
Ms M.M. Quirk interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Girrawheen, I call you to order for the second time. Minister, wind
it up, please.
Mr D.T. REDMAN : It
is expected that these lots will yield in the order of $250 million, but of
course that depends on the final market when the decision is made to sell those
lots. I reinforce that we are working through this in a very methodical,
managed and coordinated way.
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