Thursday, 12 September 2024

 Wayne FARNHAM (Narracan) (18:25): (849) My adjournment this evening is for the Minister for Planning, and the action I seek is that the minister pause the development at 23 Mason Street, Warragul. The reason I ask for this is because what was presented to the community and what was signed off by the minister has now been replaced with a completely different concept by Housing Choices Australia. It was put to the community that the building was to have a commercial side to it on the ground floor, and it was of a certain design and elevation. What Housing Choices Australia has put forward now is nothing short of Soviet Union 1970s block construction. It has units all the way to the ground, there are not enough car parks and it is not what was presented to this community. I would assume that if Housing Choices Australia, backed by the planning minister, put something forward to my community they would honour what has been put forward, but this is not the case. It is the ugliest building I have ever seen, and for construction in 2024 to look like something that has come out of the Soviet Union in the 1970s will not be acceptable to my community. So the action that I seek is that the minister pause, go to Housing Choices Australia and build what they presented to my community.