30-YEAR PLAN FOR GREATER ADELAIDE

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:43): As a supplementary question, why do the maps not reflect the zones to scale, the 800 metres and 400 metres, respectively?

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister Assisting the Premier in Public Sector Management) (14:43): As I said, the government is about to actually begin. We have been talking to a number of councils. We are going to begin with those councils around the inner ring of Adelaide about how we might go about it. Some councils, like Unley, have had a development plan process underway to look at roads like Greenhill Road for some time. One might expect that, on a road like Greenhill Road, which is a Parkland frontage, one would get higher density and higher level development than that along other roads.

What is important is going to be the detail when it gets out. The 30-year plan is the broad planning strategy. In fact, the 30-year plan has been adopted under the Development Act as the planning strategy. That is the strategy, but it is the detail that we have worked out through a series of structure plans and precinct plans, all involving discussions with local government. That will be the detail about how we go about it.

I would remind honourable members that, when it came to setting the 30-year plan targets for expected population growth and so on, they were decided upon with local government. Yes, it was based on statistical work and consultants' reports, but we actually discussed with councils the details of that growth. What we have to do now is go to the next stage. We have the broad strategy for 30 years—the broad principles—and one of those principles is the walkability; the distance from corridors. We know how to put the meat on the bone, so to speak, in relation to the details of that. That is the process that we have already begun.