WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1989
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COMMITMENT TO IMPROVING RURAL AREAS,
ENVIRONMENT
ACKNOWLEDGES
THAT MORE FUNDING, EFFCTIVE THE GOVERNMENT
PROTECTION LEGISLATION AND RESOURCES ARE NEEDED FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMME.
RESPONSE
THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON GRAHAM BARNES, THIS IN THE RESUMED DEBATE ON THE BUDGET IN TODAY (WEDNESDAY), IN MEMBERS.
ΤΟ COMMENTS
SAID THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
MADE
BY SOME EARLIER
ON THE SUBJECT ON WORLD
MR BARNES SAID HE WOULD SPEAK MORE ENVIRONMENT DAY, WHICH WILL BE OBSERVED ON JUNE 5.
ON OTHER ISSUES, MR
BARNES
COMMITTED TO RURAL
IMPROVEMENT
SAID THE
PLANNING AND
WAS GOVERNMENT
AS SPELT OUT
FIRMLY IN A
RECENTLY RELEASED DOCUMENT.
THE STRATEGY WOULD
INVOLVE
BUILDING
AND AND
THE PROFER RURAL POLLUTION
AND PROVIDE PROPER ΤΟ AREAS SUITABLE
RURAL
FOR
INFRASTRUCTURE TO CONTROL FLOODS ACCESS BOTH TO EXISTING VILLAGES DEVELOPMENT.
THE ON TIGHTER
THE "TO DO THIS, IT IS NECESSARY TO BUILD UP A TEAM CENTRED ON
RURAL TO CONCENTRATE TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
ALSO
PLANNING TO INTRODUCE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMMES
TO DEVELOP AND THOSE WE CONTROL OVER BOTH THE AREAS WE WOULD WISH WOULD WISH TO CONSERVE, MR BARNES SAID.
**
AND
FAIRLY
SAID THAT OVER THE ON THE SUPPLY OF OFFICE SPACE, MR BARNES LAST FIVE YEARS THE TOWN PLANNING BOARD HAD BEEN AGREEING TO A STEADY STREAM OF CONVERSIONS OF RESIDENTIAL LOTS TO OFFICE USE THE MASS TRANSIT MAIN LINES.
ALONG
SCALE "IT HAS, HOWEVER, BEEN MORE HESITANT TO RUSH INTO LARGER
OF BECAUSE
THE GENERAL LOTS
OFFICES, FACTORY
TO CONVERSIONS OF UNCERTAINTY OF INDUSTRIAL DEMAND IN A CHANGING SCENE.
COMMERCIAL "NEVERTHELESS, SOME CHANGES OF ZONING TO
NO LONGER REALLY BEEN AGREED IN AREAS WHERE INDUSTRY IS
HE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT AND THESE ARE LIKELY TO CONTINUE,
USE HAVE COMPATIBLE
SAID.
DEPARTMENT
GRANTS AND TO ENSURE
BUILDINGS AND LANDS MR BARNES ALSO SAID THAT THE
LAND WOULD REVIEW ITS PROCEDURES AS REGARDS SMALL HOUSE
OF RESUMPTION CONSTRUCTION AND THE PAYMENT THEY WERE COMPLETED AS SPEEDILY AND EFFICIENTLY AS POSSIBLE.
COMPENSATION
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