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Speaker 1: Now the NT Planning Commission has released the first draft

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Speaker 1: of the Greater Holts Area Plan for comment now. This

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Speaker 1: is the second part of a three stage process to

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Speaker 1: develop an area plan for Greater Holts, which includes Holts Kowandi,

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Speaker 1: Holtz North and Howard Springs North. Now joining me on

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Speaker 1: the show is the Northern Territories Planning Commission Chairman Dr

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Speaker 1: David Ritchie. Good morning to you, David.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 3: Great to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, great to have you on the show. David. How

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Speaker 1: has this draft all been put together?

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Speaker 2: Well, this draft has followed from a couple of previous

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Speaker 2: plans and the first one we did an area plan

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Speaker 2: for the whole of the area from right up to

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Speaker 2: concluding what was now the Holtz North to Wandi, but

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Speaker 2: also for a number of other areas around Palmerston. And

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Speaker 2: if you remember back then it was the last year

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Speaker 2: there was a lot of controversies who were worrying about

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Speaker 2: this mean Parmeston's going to grow out to this huge,

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Speaker 2: huge boundary and a lot of the feedback we got

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Speaker 2: from that last year has then set into the first

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Speaker 2: stage of this plan. So and in addition to that,

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Speaker 2: there's been a plan done for pulse back in twenty sixteen.

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Speaker 2: So this area has been subject to a lot of

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Speaker 2: planning consultation. So we're getting people out there that really

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Speaker 2: are across a lot of the details. We've getting pretty

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Speaker 2: high quality responses as a results, as well as some

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Speaker 2: people of course, who are just over it.

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Speaker 1: Well, David, you're right that it does feel as though

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Speaker 1: there's been so much planning, you know, for this area.

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Speaker 1: But I guess rightly so, because it is going to

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Speaker 1: be the area where we do see quite a bit

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Speaker 1: of expansion as the population grows, isn't that.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's the area that has always been on the

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Speaker 3: books except for the defense use of that Kuwandi aerial farm,

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Speaker 3: and it's only in very it's only posts the twenty

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Speaker 3: sixteen Hortz Plan.

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Speaker 2: That they've said, look, we actually don't want it and

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Speaker 2: we're happy for it to be handed back to the

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Speaker 2: territory for this kind of development. So that opportunity then

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Speaker 2: meant that it could link with the other Crown land

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Speaker 2: around it, which had been told for exactly this purpose

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Speaker 2: without any development on it, and just so close to

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Speaker 2: the Parmesan city center and to Yarrawonga and a lot

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Speaker 2: of areas that have got plenty of capacity to develop

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Speaker 2: to meet a bigger population. That's there's been literally a

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Speaker 2: couple of kilometers of them.

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Speaker 1: What are some of the concerns that have been raised

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Speaker 1: throughout the process that's already been gone through.

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Speaker 2: I think the biggest concern was that this was this

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Speaker 2: was a president that was going to a road just

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Speaker 2: the idea of over a kind of a perier, and

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Speaker 2: that's you know, rural lifestyle which been developed right from

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Speaker 2: the beginning, particularly in Howard Springs and down Virginia Road,

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Speaker 2: and people that had developed and bought blocks for that reason, Well,

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Speaker 2: this suddenly changes everything we've expected. And I think that

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Speaker 2: putting taking off, the first thing we're able to do

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Speaker 2: is to say, look Virginia and that whole that the

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Speaker 2: area down Virginia Road is just not going to be developed,

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Speaker 2: and neither is Virginia Road going to be made a

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Speaker 2: major arterial. And that reassured that particular group. Then there

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Speaker 2: was the I think very real concerns from people living

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Speaker 2: around Howard Springs that in initial draft plans that whole

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Speaker 2: of that pine forest area had been colored pink, which

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Speaker 2: is the color that planners used to show that it's

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Speaker 2: it's potential for kind of intensive residential development. And as

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Speaker 2: a direct result of the feedback and I say very

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Speaker 2: strong feedback that we've had about that, that's been taken

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Speaker 2: off the table and tell you see this draft just

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Speaker 2: basically says that is we've been convinced and I think

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Speaker 2: it was really a no brainer that that's the potential

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Speaker 2: of that that mature pine forest of native of native

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Speaker 2: cycross pine with its shade, and it's that that is

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Speaker 2: just such an amazing resource it would be absolutely criminal

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Speaker 2: carve it up to the lot and so that's retained

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Speaker 2: for open space at butts under the nature the nature

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Speaker 2: part and in addition to that, we've we've taken on

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Speaker 2: board the idea of that trying to make this different,

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Speaker 2: tremendous thing in Parmerston, we were new this is being

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Speaker 2: planned in the twenty first century. Palmerston was planned really

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Speaker 2: in the mid twentieth century. And it's to take a

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Speaker 2: lot more notice of the potential of bringing people close

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Speaker 2: to the natural environment, which which existing landowners out there

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Speaker 2: of course value.

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Speaker 1: David, Where can people go now if they are still

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Speaker 1: keen to to have their say and look at the

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Speaker 1: latest draft, Well, the.

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Speaker 2: Best thing to do if you're putting things in writing,

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Speaker 2: then have your say sart on, have your say one

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Speaker 2: word anti dot au and there's there's our email int

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Speaker 2: PC at int dot dot you. We'll actually have planning

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Speaker 2: teams out in the Parmison Shopping Center on Saturday the

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Speaker 2: nineteenth building, the shops on the twentieth and Howard Spring

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Speaker 2: Shops on the twenty fourth, where you can just talk

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Speaker 2: to people about it too, and anything that you've got

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Speaker 2: to you could just do it verbally hand over something

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Speaker 2: in that period which we pretty well. We want to

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Speaker 2: get this in before the school holidays, so we're saying

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Speaker 2: see you can get in by the ninth of December.

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Speaker 1: Well, doctor David Richie, the Northern Territories Planning Commission Chairman,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: coming on the show and chatting with us.

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Speaker 2: Total pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you,