Thursday, 9 June 2022

Eastern Metropolitan Region

Mr ATKINSON (Eastern Metropolitan) (12:44): (1842) The Liberal candidate for the seat of Ringwood has been approached by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nunawading with concerns about spoilage, waste product, from the Level Crossing Removal Project, which occupied part of the Seventh-day Adventist land during the construction of the Blackburn station development. The remediation of the land that they used is a real eyesore. It includes concrete and so forth that has been left there rather than a proper remediation of that land, which in fact has got some interesting species of plants on it because it was undisturbed territory. Some of that land is now to be used for retirement housing in a development by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and they are bearing the costs of trying to remove this spoilage, including the concrete and plastic and all sorts of things, from the LXRP’s works. I wonder if the minister responsible for the LXRP could consider compensation for that waste removal.