3.34 The forward planning of the Survey Branch of the Crown Lands and Survey Office is directed to the preparation and updating of a variety of maps and plans sufficient to serve the needs of public and private developers and the community as a whole. In doing this, efforts are made to employ the most suitable modern techniques and equipment both for field survey and for reprographic processes in the Drawing Office.
3.35 The Planning Branch bases its work on the need to meet the demands of a population growing both in number and sophistication. It uses data provided by the Census and Statistics Department and other departments and from field research to assess the forward requirements of the community and translates these requirements into the provision, on outline development and layout plans, of land for communications and for industrial, residential and community development throughout the Colony.
3.36 The Land Branch is responsible for a large body of routine work concerned with land and property and its management and valuation; it gives effect to Government decisions by transferring Crown Land into the hands of developers both public and private. Its forward planning is based on known commitments for regrant and renewal of Crown leases and the potential property management commitment arising therefrom, on the expected demand for and availability of new Crown Land for disposal and on the need to give effect to certain new forms of development policy such as Urban Renewal, long term highways development and Mass Transit communications, provisions for containerization of cargo etc. in addition to the need for long term reclamation and land formation schemes, to anticipate long term demand for Crown Land for permanent development.
3.37 Within the Valuation Division, up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of all available land transaction data essential to the function of the Branch and its support of the Land Branch, Planning Branch, and other Government Department is proceeding, and an intensification and extension of work in this respect will be continued.
WATER
The Need
3.38 The demand for fresh water for domestic, industrial and commercial purposes has arisen from 25 million gallons per day in 1946 to 202 million gallons per day during 1972-73.
3.34 The forward planning of the Survey Branch of the Crown Lands and Survey Office is directed to the preparation and updating of a variety of maps and plans sufficient to serve the needs of public and private developers and the community as a whole. In doing this, efforts are made to employ the most suitable modern techniques and equipment both for field survey and for reprographic processes in the Drawing Office.
3.35 The Planning Branch bases its work on the need to meet the demands of a population growing both in number and sophistication. It uses data provided by the Census and Statistics Department and other departments and from field research to assess the forward requirements of the community and translates these requirements into the provision, on outline development and layout plans, of land for communications and for industrial, residential and community develop- ment throughout the Colony.
3.36 The Land Branch is responsible for a large body of routine work concerned with land and property and its management and valuation; it gives effect to Government decisions by transferring Crown Land into the hands of developers both public and private. Its forward planning is based on known commitments for regrant and renewal of Crown leases and the potential property management com- mitment arising therefrom, on the expected demand for and availability of new Crown Land for disposal and on the need to give effect to certain new forms of development policy such as Urban Renewal, long term highways development and Mass Transit communications, provisions for containerization of cargo etc. in addition to the need for long term reclamation and land formation schemes, to anticipate long term demand for Crown Land for permanent development.
3.37 Within the Valuation Division, up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of all available land transaction data essential to the function of the Branch and its support of the Land Branch, Planning Branch, and other Government Department is proceeding, and an intensifica- tion and extension of work in this respect will be continued.
WATER
The Need
3.38 The demand for fresh water for domestic, industrial and com- mercial purposes has arisen from 25 million gallons per day in 1946 to 202 million gallons per day during 1972-73.
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