Sellicks Beach Housing Development

Mr TELFER (Flinders) (14:38): My question is to the Minister for Housing. Will there be a delay for the 1,700 new homes slated for Sellicks Beach due to dust particles found in high levels from a nearby quarry? With your leave, sir, and that of the house, I will explain.

Leave granted.

Mr TELFER: Land earmarked for a 1,700 new home estate at Sellicks Beach may now not be suitable for development after tiny dust particles that cause asthma and increase heart and lung disease were found in high levels multiple times near a quarry close to the development, with 134 hectares of that development now on holding status.

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION (Taylor—Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Minister for Housing Infrastructure, Minister for Planning) (14:39): I thank the member for the question. My advice is that there will be no effect on Housing Roadmap timelines. The code amendment was slated for completion by December 2025. The land will be placed in the deferred urban zone and that means that the rezoning will be complete and there is only a short administrative process that will need to happen to take it from deferred urban to master plan neighbourhood.

That allows two things to occur: obviously, confidence that this land will be ultimately available for housing but also an additional year to provide that final air quality monitoring process to go on. This is not unusual; in fact, we have been through this process with other code amendments that are close by quarries. It is both prudent and diligent to do so and what we have found with those other developments is where additional testing is being provided, that allows for a longer period to be looked at and obviously allows some confidence to be found in terms of the air quality over the longer term.

What we have found is that it has obviously been a very dry and dusty period and so you need to look over a longer period—

Mr Telfer interjecting:

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: Well, no. In terms of this but particularly dry and dusty because of the conditions, and there is a range of other—

Mr Telfer interjecting:

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: Do you want the answer or not? You want to scoff. You are a big expert on—

Mr Telfer interjecting:

The Hon. N.D. CHAMPION: No, no. If you listen, I will give you an answer. You asked a question, I want to give you an answer. There has been a particular set of conditions which means a longer period of air testing is required. We will do that because it is prudent and sensible, and once that is completed we are confident that we can meet our Housing Roadmap timelines—and this land, which has always been, I might add, in iterations of the previous 30-year plan. It has always been slated for housing under Labor and Liberal. It is just that we are doing the code amendment on it, which those opposite never did. You never did many code amendments, didn't bring much housing to market. Your previous minister admitted that. You didn't put any pipes in the ground, you didn't put any infrastructure in place, you didn't do a very good job on housing. You did nothing in regional housing and now you are big experts on it.

So the difference between you and this government is we do things and we put the accountability on ourselves by having the Housing Roadmap. I am very confident that Sellicks Beach will be a great housing development and will sell very well and provide a great new neighbourhood for people in the southern suburbs.