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Legislative Council - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
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NORTHERN SUBURBS DEVELOPMENT

The Hon. J.S.L. DAWKINS (15:09): I have a further supplementary question. What, if any, progress has been made by the minister's department in relation to the Concordia area and the proposal by the Barossa Council to make the Concordia area a separate township within its council boundaries?

The Hon. P. HOLLOWAY (Minister for Mineral Resources Development, Minister for Urban Development and Planning, Minister for Small Business) (15:09): I think the preamble of the question asked by my colleague referred to the planning and development steering committee's recommendation that there should be a 25-year rolling supply of residential land, with 15 years' supply ready. The rezoning of the area at Gawler East is really a step in achieving that process. Clearly, with the land that was added to the urban growth boundary in December 2007, if all that land had been rezoned ready, there would be 15 years of land, but given the recommendation of the steering committee (which the government has accepted) that we should move to 25 years, there is a need to look for further land.

However, that has to be seen in the context of the government's policies. I have referred to these policies in a number of answers where we would seek to achieve a target that, by the end of the 30-year period which the government is now investigating through its 30-year target, at least 70 per cent of that new housing should come from infill, high-rise development or brownfield development (as the case might be) within the current boundary. We would see as an objective that, towards the end of the period, no more than 30 per cent of new development would come through greenfield, and that is necessary if we are to contain urban sprawl within the community. At present, I point out that it is a 50-50 split between greenfield development and development through infill, high-rise or brownfield development.

They are the targets at which the government is looking, and that has come about as a result of the planning review. Clearly, that means that further sites are being looked at, and when the 30-year plan is released (hopefully, within the next month or two), as a result of the works being done the targets that would be most appropriate to accommodate this future development will become clear. That report will also look at how that might be achieved consistent with all the other requirements for sustainability, including transport, water, and so on.

To refer specifically to the honourable member's question, he asked about Concordia. Clearly, future growth areas will be considered as part of the 30-year plan, but at this stage, in achieving the rezoning, we have been looking at this particular development at Gawler East. We have certainly had discussions under the 30-year plan review with Barossa council in relation to Concordia—and that will be done at some future stage—but at present it is urgent that the government rezone enough land to keep the pressure down on spiralling land prices.

We have been involved in a number of exercises to do that and, in particular, Gawler East is one of the first of those rezoning exercises that will, within the current boundary, put a significant parcel of land on the market to help achieve that goal, but Concordia will be a later stage.

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