IFOULD STREET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:57): I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Social Housing a question relating to the Ifould Street housing development.

Leave granted.

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: Housing SA is the agency managing and sponsoring the development of an innovative project situated at 22 Ifould Street in the city aimed at providing affordable housing in the CBD. Adjacent to Wakefield and Hutt streets, the project provides 42 one and two-bedroom apartments at over seven levels. Over 85 per cent of the project's release is intended to be affordable. This includes six apartments retained by Housing SA for social housing, with rent limited to a maximum of 25 per cent of the tenant's income.

A further 18 apartments are being sold to eligible buyers via the affordable housing program. It has been touted as showcasing numerous environmentally sustainable features, which of course the Greens support wholeheartedly, including: solar hot water systems, passive solar design principles, individual metering of energy, water and gas consumption, bike parks, energy efficient LED lighting and appliances, solar clothes drying, rainwater harvesting and re-use and provision of plantation bamboo flooring in apartments.

As I say, the Greens find this laudable, but we do have a concern, which has been raised personally with me, that residents in these apartments and others (of which there are an ever-increasing number of these high-rise and multiple apartments that we are seeing built in the city) are unable to recycle themselves. So, they are unable to participate in council-provided recycling schemes as residents in the suburbs are, or residents in non high-rise dwellings are.

My question to the minister is: are residents of the Ifould Street development and other multistorey apartment developments in the CBD able to access Adelaide City Council-based recycling schemes for their general and other waste? I understand they are able to afford the cardboard recycling scheme, so I will not ask the minister whether or not they can afford that. If not, what is being done to facilitate their participation in such schemes in the future?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion, Minister for Social Housing, Minister for Disabilities, Minister for Youth, Minister for Volunteers) (14:59): I thank the honourable member for her very important question and for reading into the record my briefing notes on the Ifould Street development. I will not go there myself.

As to the questions about the recycling schemes in high-rise city developments, I must say I do not have that information at hand and will take that on notice and bring back a response.