The following residents of the ACT draw the attention of the Assembly to Draft Major Plan Amendment 06 (DPA-06) – the Inner South Health Centre (HC). DPA-06 proposes to rezone and use highly valued open space and parkland behind the Griffith shops for a large $22m facility, providing a restricted range of health services by appointment only, during standard weekday business hours. Disappointed inner south residents were led to believe the facility would offer similar services to the popular Walk-In Centres at Belconnen, Gungahlin, Dickson, Tuggeranong and Weston Creek. The ACT Government has now declared the HC to be a Territory Priority Project (TPP) which will preclude appeals by residents.
Your petitioners, therefore, request the Assembly to call on the ACT Government to:
Reconsider the location of the proposed Inner South Health Centre (HC) in order to protect the character, established trees and amenity of the open space and recreational parkland behind the Griffith shops, and instead utilise currently zoned community facility land in either Manuka or Kingston Group Centres, or the West Deakin health precinct, undeveloped land in Eastlake or the Kingston Foreshore; and
Provide a full range of Walk-In services; consider inner south residents’ future needs; undertake genuine, open consultation with residents (including a town hall meeting) on the Health Centre’s location, design and service model; and reverse the decision to declare the Health Centre a Territory Priority Project.