The NCA’s Consultation Report in response to CSIRO has been and is continuing to undertake all consultation on the Exposure Draft of the Plan states due diligence studies. This includes conducting that the ACT Government wishes to pursue urban environmental studies such as ecological ‘if development in any area identified as potential future investigations, sampling and analysis of soil, urban area, all due diligence studies will be undertaken, sediment, surface water and groundwater. Why has the NCA as set out in Part Three of the Plan’. For further details refer to section 3.2.1. not applied similar rules to CSIRO? How can the NCA simply approve a request from CSIRO without the necessary studies being undertaken and an assessment being made by the NCA in terms of consistency with the Plan? Surely conditions would be attached to any approval for rezoning. The NCA appears to be paying lip service to the Plan, and has not undertaken the necessary work to properly assess such a request for rezoning. No studies have been undertaken with respect to the environment which relates to past activities of CSIRO on the site. In particular, no assessment has been made of their HazChem Register nor have any soil samples been assessed with respect to chemical residues. CSIRO indicates that these studies will be undertaken in 2016 which is outside the consultation period. Community feedback on CSIRO’s proposal In response to Draft Amendment 86, the NCA received a variety views both for and against the A to the CSIRO website shows there is considerable proposal for urban development on the CSIRO interest by the local community in green ‘retaining Ginninderra field station site. Please refer to spaces and corridors and continued protection of section 3.2.1 of the report for information on the protected or endangered species’. CSIRO in a recent diversity of views received. Canberra Times article was quoted as saying ‘that
The NCA’s Consultation Report in response to consultation on the Exposure Draft of the Plan states that ‘if the ACT Government wishes to pursue urban development in any area identified as potential future urban area, all due diligence studies will be undertaken, as set out in Part Three of the Plan’. Why has the NCA not applied similar rules to CSIRO? How can the NCA simply approve a request from CSIRO without the necessary studies being undertaken and an assessment being made by the NCA in terms of consistency with the Plan? Surely conditions would be attached to any approval for rezoning. The NCA appears to be paying lip service to the Plan, and has not undertaken the necessary work to properly assess such a request for rezoning. No studies have been undertaken with respect to the environment which relates to past activities of CSIRO on the site. In particular, no assessment has been made of their HazChem Register nor have any soil samples been assessed with respect to chemical residues. CSIRO indicates that these studies will be undertaken in 2016 which is outside the consultation period. CSIRO has been and is continuing to undertake all due diligence studies. This includes conducting environmental studies such as ecological investigations, sampling and analysis of soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater. For further details refer to section 3.2.1. Community feedback on CSIRO’s proposal A to the CSIRO website shows there is considerable interest by the local community in ‘retaining green spaces and corridors and continued protection of protected or endangered species’. CSIRO in a recent Canberra Times article was quoted as saying ‘that In response to Draft Amendment 86, the NCA received a variety views both for and against the proposal for urban development on the CSIRO Ginninderra field station site. Please refer to section 3.2.1 of the report for information on the diversity of views received.
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