❓ Mr. Snook questions Minister MacTiernan about the rezoning of the Plunketts' land in Moore River, alleging a contradiction between her past statements and current actions. MacTiernan defends the rezoning, citing processes and the potential for tourism development.
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I refer to the minister’s comments in this house yesterday that in opposition she was never in favour of the Plunketts’ land in Moore River being zoned urban. In government, she is pushing for that land to be rezoned rural, which will cost the Plunkett family millions of dollars. How does the minister account for the comments in her position statement on the Moore River land during the 2001 election that - Labor accepts that the development has been approved and that certain rights have accrued to the developer as a result of those approvals Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN
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I thank the member for the question. I stand by my comments that it was a very unwise decision. As long as the land was zoned urban, the right existed to develop on urban land. However once the land ceases to be zoned urban, that development right ceases. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
I thank the member for the question. I stand by my comments that it was a very unwise decision. As long as the land was zoned urban, the right existed to develop on urban land. However once the land ceases to be zoned urban, that development right ceases. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
I stand by my comments that it was a very unwise decision. As long as the land was zoned urban, the right existed to develop on urban land. However once the land ceases to be zoned urban, that development right ceases. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
I thank the member for the question. I stand by my comments that it was a very unwise decision. As long as the land was zoned urban, the right existed to develop on urban land. However once the land ceases to be zoned urban, that development right ceases. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
I stand by my comments that it was a very unwise decision. As long as the land was zoned urban, the right existed to develop on urban land. However once the land ceases to be zoned urban, that development right ceases. Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : There are processes in place in this state, just as there were processes that enabled the Plunketts to persuade Mr Richard Lewis to take land that was zoned rural. Did members of the other side not think it was outrageous that, by a stroke of a pen, millions of dollars could be created for the Plunkett family? Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
Several members interjected. The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
The SPEAKER : Order, members! Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
Ms A.J.G. MacTIERNAN : It is really interesting how this issue has been characterised as some sort of general antidevelopment policy by the government. In the past week I have come into this place with, I think, four metropolitan region scheme amendments that allow land to be converted from rural and other uses to urban. In planning we must assess each case on its merits. As I said, this is not the first time that land has been downzoned; it has happened before. I make it clear that there is still great capacity for appropriate development on the site. The recommendation that has come to me from the Western Australia Planning Commission in preparing the Gingin coast structure plan is that this land be set aside for tourism and that we only allow residential development that is necessary to do that. If the land is rezoned, those principles will apply.
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