Adjournment
Officer South precinct structure plan
Brad BATTIN (Berwick) (17:08): (421) My adjournment is to the Minister for Planning, and the action I am seeking is for the minister to arrange a meeting between the Department of Transport and Planning and a constituent of mine in Berwick about an issue related to the Officer South employment precinct structure plan. So much of my constituent’s land has been taken up by waterways, easements and cultural heritage overlays in this proposed PSP that it leaves very little land he can sell to a developer or use himself, and it is certainly not big enough for anyone to be interested, which is the feedback he has received so far as he has tried to sell the property. They are happy to have part of the whole lot, but there has been no engagement with the department about this. They would be happy also for the department to purchase the entire lot if required. They are one of the most significant impacted stakeholders in the PSP, and it is a substantial landholding. They have attempted to raise their concerns already but feel they have not been heard or listened to. They are putting through a submission via the normal process, but a meeting will ensure the submission is given the appropriate weight and not just lost in the noise of general submissions, and there will be a lot of those because of the scale of the impact of this PSP.
This afternoon I will write to the minister and provide the constituent’s specific details, and the reason we will be withholding the name at the moment is just because the person’s name will be very well recognised through the community. But the constituent would appreciate the minister’s acknowledgement in this forum of the importance that the constituent is heard, and we look forward to arranging this meeting as soon as possible.