18 May 2008

Planning authority building blunder hiding something

| damianheffernan
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As reported in the news ACTPLA accidentally approved three buildings on the Kingston foreshore to have five floors instead of four as dictated by the Territory plan. Interestingly a web search shows the ACT Government and the developers released a media release in December 2006 which clearly states “The blocks provide an opportunity to build up to four stories of office space with an option for residential on the top two levels.”

http://www.lda.act.gov.au/uploads/home/media/kingston_foreshore/kingston_foreshore_sites_sell.pdf

So in other words all the parties knew way in advance that there could only be four stories. So what happened? We won’t ever know because it’s all hidden deep in the files.

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In the earlier RA story on this, someone mentioned that the additional floor was mezzanine level, and it wasn’t clear whether this counted in the four allowed or not.

Anyone for FOI? Anyone who knows what happened able to make a Public Interest Disclosure? In any contest between stuffups and conspiracies, I will always bet on the former – in anything involving the wonderful ACT public sector, it’s probably a certainty.

If it were the other way around and ACTPLA had made a mistake, it would be rectified.

I’m sure it was just an honest mistake but to be safe, I’d expect the AFP will be investigating all involved for corruption, right?

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