Thursday, March 17, 2011

BCC don't have Development Approval to locate car park in heritage listed ANZAC Park

BCC intends to first determine where the Legacy Way construction workforce car park is to be located through the complex process of ‘Community Consultation Sessions’, an Application for evaluation of environmental effects of proposed change, the Coordinator-General’s public notice decision and 50K fees, and the community’s ‘properly made submissions’ which the Coordinator-General ‘must’ take into account under the SDPWO Act 1971, when making the decision as to whether BCC’s proposal will satisfy the Imposed Condition 18(k), before even having development approval - BCC is certainly putting the cart before the horse.

The Coordinator-General stated in the Coordinator-General’s Report Northern Link Road Tunnel released: April 2010 ‘Report evaluating the Environmental Impact Statement’, pursuant to section 35(3) of the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971, that development approvals are required for all aspects of development on a local heritage place.

ANZAC Park was listed on the BCC Heritage Register in 2004 therefore the Heritage Place Code under the BCC City Plan 2000 applies and reports must be made, for any development, in accordance with the Burra Charter. Under the Burra Charter a construction workforce car park within ANZAC Park is not a ‘compatible’ ‘use’ of a ’place’ of ‘cultural significance’.

How does BCC expect to be given development approval to destroy ANZAC Park? Will they just give it to themselves without following the proper process?

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