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Speaker 1: Yesterday on the show, we caught up with Jerry Wood,

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Speaker 1: who had some concerns about the Humpty Do Rural Activity

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Speaker 1: Center Area Plan. Now, the plan provides a long term

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Speaker 1: vision for land use, giving certainty to residents, land owners, investors,

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Speaker 1: service providers and government agencies to help plan for the future.

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Speaker 1: The Northern Territory Planning Commission is seeking fresh feedback on

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Speaker 1: the plan and is holding some drop in sessions for

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Speaker 1: locals to do so. Now joining me on the line

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Speaker 1: to tell us a little bit more is the Planning

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Speaker 1: Commission NT Chairman, Doctor David Richie. Good morning to you, David.

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Speaker 2: Oh, good morning Katie.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for your time this morning. Now, David, firstly,

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Speaker 1: can you explain to us what the plan is all

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Speaker 1: about and why it's needed.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, Katie. I think just in saying that, I

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Speaker 2: was listening to Jerry and just to acknowledge his enormous

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Speaker 2: contribution to planning in in the Northern Territory. I mean

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Speaker 2: he's he's from his first day, you know, his influence

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Speaker 2: on the stopping of the damming of the Elizabeth River,

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Speaker 2: right the way through to his his championing the the

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Speaker 2: the importance of maintaining the rural rural rural buffers between

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Speaker 2: the major major urban centers. As I mean, he's you

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Speaker 2: could say he's actually he's changed the way planning has

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Speaker 2: been done in in the in the last twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, we always listened to Jerry to go back

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Speaker 2: to what the plans about. It's one of a number

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Speaker 2: of plans that have been very similar. They're there with

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Speaker 2: Howard Springs and Nunama have already been kind of done

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Speaker 2: and there they were all responses to ad hoc development

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Speaker 2: that was that was beginning to kind of creep into

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Speaker 2: the rural area, curly fueled by the boom in you know,

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Speaker 2: from the impacts the When the twenty and sixteen the

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Speaker 2: sixteen Regional Plan for Lichfield was handed down and accepted,

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Speaker 2: it contained these concept of having these what it's called

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Speaker 2: the rural developing more intensively around the existing infrastructure, which

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Speaker 2: is basically very sound planning principle. Where you've got already

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Speaker 2: got reticulated power, water, sewage, that's where you can actually

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Speaker 2: create sort of opportunities for closer living. And I think

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Speaker 2: I said Nunama before I meant to say Cooler Lingery

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Speaker 2: fulller Linger Plan and the and the Howard Springs plan.

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Speaker 2: So this one we've been talking to people in that

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Speaker 2: around Humpty do since two thousand and This has taken

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Speaker 2: along time to get to this stage, mainly because the

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Speaker 2: Arnham Highway, like Cooler Linga a highway, presents a major

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Speaker 2: opportunity and a major challenge. And in Humpty Dew the

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Speaker 2: need for kind of north south axis crossing that is

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Speaker 2: kind of imperative. Needs to be a connection back to

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Speaker 2: Howard Springs and they're very important to have these rural

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Speaker 2: areas being able to be connected without having to get

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Speaker 2: back onto major highways all the time. But the of course,

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Speaker 2: the wicked problem is how do you do that without

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Speaker 2: affecting the amenity of people that have already bought blocks,

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Speaker 2: already planned and sided their houses, expecting their road out

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Speaker 2: the front to be basically a rural road and not

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Speaker 2: a major connector. And I think the initial draft we

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Speaker 2: took out in two thousand and ninety there was a

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Speaker 2: whole issue of that was perhaps the major issue we

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Speaker 2: signalizing and which which of the roads running north south

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Speaker 2: would be become the major connector. What this plan which

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Speaker 2: we're going out to the community with now is our

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Speaker 2: attempt to solve those problems, legitimate concerns that were raised

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Speaker 2: when we first went out a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so doctor Richie, just tell us. I mean

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Speaker 1: Jerry's main concern, or one of those concerns, was that

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Speaker 1: one hundred rural blocks could be subdivided into five hundred

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Speaker 1: smaller blocks, which doesn't retain that rural character of the area.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what do you say to those concerns that

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Speaker 1: he'd raised yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I think in that case, Jerry is making a point

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Speaker 2: about the rural the need to conserve that the rural character.

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Speaker 2: I told say, in kind of that, we're talking about

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Speaker 2: probably less than five percent of the rural kind of

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Speaker 2: area around the Humpty Dew of Herbert kind of region

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Speaker 2: affected by this, all of the areas that were proposed

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Speaker 2: for slightly smaller blocks. So we're talking about what is

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Speaker 2: in the there's a there's a planning kind of zoning

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Speaker 2: category called rural residential which is between four thousand square

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Speaker 2: meters to which is an old fashioned acre, to ten

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Speaker 2: thousand square meters which is basically one hectare. So and

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Speaker 2: that we're proposing that that those be limited to the

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Speaker 2: edge of the Arnham Highway. So that if when they

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Speaker 2: were developed and there are areas that are not already

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Speaker 2: the areas that the owners are holding onto waiting for development.

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Speaker 2: Now in Jerry's proposals, they should just be carved up

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Speaker 2: into basically five acre blocks two hectare blocks. We are saying,

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Speaker 2: look opposite the humpty do area the existing company do

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Speaker 2: you shopping area and industrial area on the that's on

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Speaker 2: the north side of the highway where those big, big

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Speaker 2: sort of like super lots have yet to be subdivided.

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Speaker 2: We should look at and allow the opportunity, if the

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Speaker 2: owners want to develop them like that, to have these

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Speaker 2: smaller lots going down to four thousand square meters, which

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Speaker 2: is the old fashioned one acre. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now look, we don't have a huge amount of time left,

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Speaker 1: but I do want to ask you one of the

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Speaker 1: other concerns that has been raised is is obviously the

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Speaker 1: you know, the situation with the bore and septic requirements.

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Speaker 1: Is that something that people are raising with you at

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Speaker 1: this point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely and quite rightly. Yeah. The the the if

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Speaker 2: any of if there's any development along in that that

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Speaker 2: we're talking about that you can see on the plan

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Speaker 2: there's a sort of a strip either side of the

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Speaker 2: Arham Highway, within the within the that's what's called the

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Speaker 2: study area. Anybody wants if they were to be carved

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Speaker 2: up into into four thousand square meet a lot, they

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Speaker 2: have to have either the moment there's no sewerage line

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Speaker 2: in there. The four thousand square meta is big enough

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Speaker 2: to have a septic system, but they have to have

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Speaker 2: a two stage system. So they have to be able

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Speaker 2: to demonstrate that the systems that are the only systems

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Speaker 2: that ever be approved on that are those that do

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Speaker 2: not impact ground war.

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Speaker 1: Now, doctor Richie, I understand that there are still opportunities

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Speaker 1: for territories to make sure that their voices are heard

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Speaker 1: on this. And there there are going to be a

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Speaker 1: couple of meetings happening this week, aren't they?

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Speaker 2: There are O Katie and the I guess the well, firstly,

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Speaker 2: I mean consultations. You know, for the formal consultation period

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Speaker 2: is open till the thirtieth of Journe. There's a have

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Speaker 2: your say dot n T, dot gother dot AU site,

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Speaker 2: but there will be drop in sessions tonight at the

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Speaker 2: Humpty Dew Tavern between five and seven. And I really

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Speaker 2: urge anybody that wants to have their their too, Bobsworth

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Speaker 2: to come along to that, but also again Canonman Community

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Speaker 2: Library between ten and one on Thursday this week. So

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Speaker 2: at this point we are still we've you know that

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Speaker 2: even the boundary of the area that we're talking about

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Speaker 2: is something that we can we would like to hear

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Speaker 2: people that we really are open to to sensible ways

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Speaker 2: of solving some of these.

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Speaker 1: Is well, Doctor David Ritchie, I always appreciate your time

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Speaker 1: of the Planning Commission NT Chairman. Thank you very much

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Speaker 1: for having a chat with me this morning.

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Speaker 2: Thanks very much, Katie, thank you