❓ The Minister outlines the Carpenter government's actions to release additional residential land in Halls Creek, addressing planning challenges and collaboration with LandCorp and the Shire. The project aims to create 40 lots for approximately 50 dwellings, with government subsidy.
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HALLS CREEK - RELEASE OF ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL LAND
Will the minister advise what the Carpenter government is doing in response to the community of Halls Creek’s need for the release of additional residential land? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
Will the minister advise what the Carpenter government is doing in response to the community of Halls Creek’s need for the release of additional residential land? Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question and for the opportunity to respond. Work on this land supply issue has been under way for some 18 months; indeed, it started in late 2004 when I visited Halls Creek to discuss a range of issues, including land availability. We identified the airport land as the most prospective site. At my request, LandCorp included Halls Creek as part of its town site development program, an important program through which we are developing land in small rural centres all around Western Australia. Indeed, the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara may be interested to know that we are also doing this in Fitzroy Crossing. To advance the issue, the shire offered to include its land in the project free of charge. The shire completed its expression of interest for involvement in the project in May 2005. After that, LandCorp appointed a planner, a surveyor and an engineer, and has been working on the subdivision plan and on completing the financial projections. It is important to understand that this project will need substantial government subsidy. LandCorp has listed this project as a priority for government consideration. Unfortunately, problems in the planning emerged in September 2005 when the shire’s local planning strategy included most of the land in a buffer zone, thereby making it unavailable for development. When this was brought to my attention, I told LandCorp that we should proceed with the subdivision application and sort out the local planning strategy later, because quite clearly the buffer proposed around the power station was in excess of what was required. The shire has agreed with that decision. The subdivision should produce about 40 lots and enable about 50 dwellings to be constructed. We believe that we can get the submission to the Western Australian Planning Commission in the next month, and we hope to have it through the planning commission in two to three months. We should be ready to start subdivision works in September. The Minister for Housing and Works has indicated that she wants around 20 to 25 of those lots. We believe that construction could be under way by the end of the year. We will also be making land available for other purchasers to meet their housing needs. The chief executive officer of the Shire of Halls Creek, Peter McConnell, has today distanced himself from the negative spin that was placed on his words by the journalist from The West Australian - a veritable spin sister. We are very conscious that in Halls Creek, as in many Western Australian towns, there is a real need for LandCorp to get this land development under way, and we are working very diligently to do that.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question and for the opportunity to respond. Work on this land supply issue has been under way for some 18 months; indeed, it started in late 2004 when I visited Halls Creek to discuss a range of issues, including land availability. We identified the airport land as the most prospective site. At my request, LandCorp included Halls Creek as part of its town site development program, an important program through which we are developing land in small rural centres all around Western Australia. Indeed, the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara may be interested to know that we are also doing this in Fitzroy Crossing. To advance the issue, the shire offered to include its land in the project free of charge. The shire completed its expression of interest for involvement in the project in May 2005. After that, LandCorp appointed a planner, a surveyor and an engineer, and has been working on the subdivision plan and on completing the financial projections. It is important to understand that this project will need substantial government subsidy. LandCorp has listed this project as a priority for government consideration. Unfortunately, problems in the planning emerged in September 2005 when the shire’s local planning strategy included most of the land in a buffer zone, thereby making it unavailable for development. When this was brought to my attention, I told LandCorp that we should proceed with the subdivision application and sort out the local planning strategy later, because quite clearly the buffer proposed around the power station was in excess of what was required. The shire has agreed with that decision. The subdivision should produce about 40 lots and enable about 50 dwellings to be constructed. We believe that we can get the submission to the Western Australian Planning Commission in the next month, and we hope to have it through the planning commission in two to three months. We should be ready to start subdivision works in September. The Minister for Housing and Works has indicated that she wants around 20 to 25 of those lots. We believe that construction could be under way by the end of the year. We will also be making land available for other purchasers to meet their housing needs. The chief executive officer of the Shire of Halls Creek, Peter McConnell, has today distanced himself from the negative spin that was placed on his words by the journalist from The West Australian - a veritable spin sister. We are very conscious that in Halls Creek, as in many Western Australian towns, there is a real need for LandCorp to get this land development under way, and we are working very diligently to do that.
I thank the member for the question and for the opportunity to respond. Work on this land supply issue has been under way for some 18 months; indeed, it started in late 2004 when I visited Halls Creek to discuss a range of issues, including land availability. We identified the airport land as the most prospective site. At my request, LandCorp included Halls Creek as part of its town site development program, an important program through which we are developing land in small rural centres all around Western Australia. Indeed, the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara may be interested to know that we are also doing this in Fitzroy Crossing. To advance the issue, the shire offered to include its land in the project free of charge. The shire completed its expression of interest for involvement in the project in May 2005. After that, LandCorp appointed a planner, a surveyor and an engineer, and has been working on the subdivision plan and on completing the financial projections. It is important to understand that this project will need substantial government subsidy. LandCorp has listed this project as a priority for government consideration. Unfortunately, problems in the planning emerged in September 2005 when the shire’s local planning strategy included most of the land in a buffer zone, thereby making it unavailable for development. When this was brought to my attention, I told LandCorp that we should proceed with the subdivision application and sort out the local planning strategy later, because quite clearly the buffer proposed around the power station was in excess of what was required. The shire has agreed with that decision. The subdivision should produce about 40 lots and enable about 50 dwellings to be constructed. We believe that we can get the submission to the Western Australian Planning Commission in the next month, and we hope to have it through the planning commission in two to three months. We should be ready to start subdivision works in September. The Minister for Housing and Works has indicated that she wants around 20 to 25 of those lots. We believe that construction could be under way by the end of the year. We will also be making land available for other purchasers to meet their housing needs. The chief executive officer of the Shire of Halls Creek, Peter McConnell, has today distanced himself from the negative spin that was placed on his words by the journalist from The West Australian - a veritable spin sister. We are very conscious that in Halls Creek, as in many Western Australian towns, there is a real need for LandCorp to get this land development under way, and we are working very diligently to do that.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN replied: I thank the member for the question and for the opportunity to respond. Work on this land supply issue has been under way for some 18 months; indeed, it started in late 2004 when I visited Halls Creek to discuss a range of issues, including land availability. We identified the airport land as the most prospective site. At my request, LandCorp included Halls Creek as part of its town site development program, an important program through which we are developing land in small rural centres all around Western Australia. Indeed, the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara may be interested to know that we are also doing this in Fitzroy Crossing. To advance the issue, the shire offered to include its land in the project free of charge. The shire completed its expression of interest for involvement in the project in May 2005. After that, LandCorp appointed a planner, a surveyor and an engineer, and has been working on the subdivision plan and on completing the financial projections. It is important to understand that this project will need substantial government subsidy. LandCorp has listed this project as a priority for government consideration. Unfortunately, problems in the planning emerged in September 2005 when the shire’s local planning strategy included most of the land in a buffer zone, thereby making it unavailable for development. When this was brought to my attention, I told LandCorp that we should proceed with the subdivision application and sort out the local planning strategy later, because quite clearly the buffer proposed around the power station was in excess of what was required. The shire has agreed with that decision. The subdivision should produce about 40 lots and enable about 50 dwellings to be constructed. We believe that we can get the submission to the Western Australian Planning Commission in the next month, and we hope to have it through the planning commission in two to three months. We should be ready to start subdivision works in September. The Minister for Housing and Works has indicated that she wants around 20 to 25 of those lots. We believe that construction could be under way by the end of the year. We will also be making land available for other purchasers to meet their housing needs. The chief executive officer of the Shire of Halls Creek, Peter McConnell, has today distanced himself from the negative spin that was placed on his words by the journalist from The West Australian - a veritable spin sister. We are very conscious that in Halls Creek, as in many Western Australian towns, there is a real need for LandCorp to get this land development under way, and we are working very diligently to do that.
I thank the member for the question and for the opportunity to respond. Work on this land supply issue has been under way for some 18 months; indeed, it started in late 2004 when I visited Halls Creek to discuss a range of issues, including land availability. We identified the airport land as the most prospective site. At my request, LandCorp included Halls Creek as part of its town site development program, an important program through which we are developing land in small rural centres all around Western Australia. Indeed, the member for Central Kimberley-Pilbara may be interested to know that we are also doing this in Fitzroy Crossing. To advance the issue, the shire offered to include its land in the project free of charge. The shire completed its expression of interest for involvement in the project in May 2005. After that, LandCorp appointed a planner, a surveyor and an engineer, and has been working on the subdivision plan and on completing the financial projections. It is important to understand that this project will need substantial government subsidy. LandCorp has listed this project as a priority for government consideration. Unfortunately, problems in the planning emerged in September 2005 when the shire’s local planning strategy included most of the land in a buffer zone, thereby making it unavailable for development. When this was brought to my attention, I told LandCorp that we should proceed with the subdivision application and sort out the local planning strategy later, because quite clearly the buffer proposed around the power station was in excess of what was required. The shire has agreed with that decision. The subdivision should produce about 40 lots and enable about 50 dwellings to be constructed. We believe that we can get the submission to the Western Australian Planning Commission in the next month, and we hope to have it through the planning commission in two to three months. We should be ready to start subdivision works in September. The Minister for Housing and Works has indicated that she wants around 20 to 25 of those lots. We believe that construction could be under way by the end of the year. We will also be making land available for other purchasers to meet their housing needs. The chief executive officer of the Shire of Halls Creek, Peter McConnell, has today distanced himself from the negative spin that was placed on his words by the journalist from The West Australian - a veritable spin sister. We are very conscious that in Halls Creek, as in many Western Australian towns, there is a real need for LandCorp to get this land development under way, and we are working very diligently to do that.
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