Estimates - Housing and Planning - Dowsing Point

Ms Burnet - My second question is around Dowsing Point. I know that we discussed this earlier this evening, but I didn't get any sense of any timeframe in relation to delivering housing or subdivisions there.

Can you tell the committee how much the government or Glenorchy City Council or, indeed, the federal government will be up for infrastructure costs to make the housing project deliverable? Is there remediation work to be done? Is there's stormwater? Is there the possibility of inclusion rezoning?

Mr VINCENT - There is a lot of different work. There is not a timeframe in place yet because it still sits with the Department of Defence to work its way through. Costings or analysis of the site has not been taken yet. There is at least, I would think, two years' worth of work to still be done by the federal government and the Department of Defence to work through that.

During that time, we will start to understand things a little bit more, but it is very early days at this stage and only a general announcement. Cost of land or what needs to be done has not been analysed yet, but as that comes across through the timeline over the next 12 months or two years, Building Tas will start to work through a lot of those analysis before we start to go out to community so that we have a better idea on how the project will be scoped.

But there's still an enormous amount of work to be done by the federal government and the Defence Department, so it doesn't sit right in our quarter yet.

Ms Burnet - So, that second part of the question around whether the local council will have to chip in with much of the work to make good?

Mr VINCENT - There has been just very overarching discussions about the clean-up of the site sitting with the federal government because it is a military site. Had a very brief discussion with the CEO of Glenorchy council and with the mayor on the day in regards to making sure they're involved as we work through the whole process.

But that's, once again, very early days. It's an open book at this stage. But there is a lot of work to do. The site lends itself to the development perfectly, but there's not a great deal of homework behind that at this stage.