We've all been had - The Narrabundah longstay caravan park saga continues

I and many other find it quite disturbing that these sorts of things are happening. Under what protection are the deal makers of this allowed to go un-beheaded. It is embezzlement.

I can’t really add anything to that. You’re all spot on.
Can’t these sort of deals (where publicly owned land is being sold off to a preferred developer) be subject to a cooling off period of say 3 months, so that all ‘other’ interests ie the community of tax/ rates payers interests are addressed? These deals should not be done ‘behind closed doors’ and should be open and transparentin their process and decisions.

Well isn’t the ACT Govt stupid. You sell a piece of real estate (irrespective of whats on it) for $1 with a condition that they don’t sell it for 5 years…. Guess whats gonna happen once the time has expired…

The giveaway for $1 was Liberal party stupidity. But this “compensation” thing is Labour party stupidity – if you don’t want him to be able to rezone, make sure that he can’t in the first place.

The Planning and Land Council, established by Simon Corbell in 2003, has just been abolished. The PLC was advised of the decision last month, but Simon so far has made no public announcement (that I’m aware of).

Yet another nail in the coffin of community oversight of planning issues in the ACT, and yet another nail in the coffin of planning governance and accountability. The PLC was “part of a new structure for the governance of planning and land management in the ACT”.

It provided “an independent source of high level planning and land policy advice to the Minister for Planning and ACTPLA”.

It wasn’t as effective as it could/should have been, as it only consulted with ACTPLA and no-one else, but was able to provide an alternative view.

johnboy i bloody well agree with you. why is it all other canberra residents are paying for this? i am outraged that the (clearly valuable) land was even given away in the first place for $1 for a pitiful condition of it being used as low-income housing for only 5 years. i don’t have a problem with cheaper housing being provided to legitimate low income people but all i see that has happened here is that 2 companies/organisations have/are making a motza – thanks to all other canberra residents.

Well the ACT Govt had better collect all that out-standing rent from some of the caravan park residents now or I’ll be really spewing!

Yep, we’re getting screwed every which way.

What I can’t understand is how the govt can justify giving serviced, developable land to Jolly Josip. After all, he bought land that was an existing caravan park, and was going to have to work pretty hard to get it re-zoned for residential blocks (and may very well have failed).

Now, he’s played hardball and is being handed a gift of subdivisible land, all at taxpayer’s expense. What a bonanza!

its pretty sad that they have damaged their reputation like this.