Legislative Council Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3) 51 3 Parliament of South Australia Legislative Council published Question Time Transit Oriented Developments TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENTS The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY Legislative Council Leader of the Opposition TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENTS The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:37): I have a further supplementary question. Why has the TOD site at West Lakes been deleted from the map in Saturday's Advertiser, as opposed to the map released when the plan was launched? The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY Legislative Council Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Small Business TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENTS The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Small Business) (14:38): At this stage the state government is planning the transit oriented developments. When the planning review came down, it had a number of indicative sites which may be suitable for TODs. That was put out in the planning review. But, as I indicated at the time following the release of the review, the government would be reviewing its policy and, of course, the timing and location of those will depend very much on the rollout of the government's electrification process. I have pointed out to this chamber numerous times that an essential ingredient for good transit oriented development to proceed will be the electrification of our railways, because people will not want to live near transit corridors which are noisy and polluting. So electrification is an essential ingredient, and that will determine to a significant extent the timetable for the rollout of transit oriented developments. But there are a number of areas where, clearly, what this government is looking at, through its planning reforms, is to ensure that the intensity of development should be greatest along our transport corridors. That will be largely rail and largely where the electrification is but, of course, there will be other centres where it may make sense to site transit oriented developments. That work on the sites and locations of the transit oriented developments is yet to take place but, clearly, the first stage of electrification will be in the vicinity of the Clipsal site, and that is therefore the obvious site to plan for the first such development.