Thursday, 1 August 2024

Southern Metropolitan Region

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (12:52): (999) My matter for a constituency question today concerns Nangare, a retirement village just off Burwood Highway in Burwood, and it is for the attention of the Minister for the Suburban Rail Loop. I visited that village. There are 21 units there. I sat down with the committee in their common room. I listened to their concerns about vegetation and traffic and the fact that their retirement village is in that narrow zone, well within the 1.6-kilometre zone, and very close to the site of works for the Suburban Rail Loop. They are very concerned about the outcome, and it would be very helpful for the minister to assure them on certain matters around that. In particular they want an assurance that they are not going to have compulsory acquisition of the site. It is owned by the church; nonetheless these are older people, and if that site was to be compulsorily acquired, that would be concerning. They would be moved. They need a commitment, a guarantee, that there will not be compulsory acquisition of that site.