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0:00:00 Management training within NCDC andpersonal experience of MelbourneUniversity management course. Decision toapply for position of Chief Planner at ACTInterim Planning Authority; appointed ashead; responsible to ACT chief ministers.New experience of working withindepartmental structure.0:05:09 Preparation of legislation for InterimPlanning Authority; first planning Act inAustralia to integrate heritage, environment,transport, land use and urban design. Laterchanges to Act. Interim Planning Authorityincorporates various planning disciplines.Preparation of Draft Territory Plan;consultation with National Capital PlanningAuthority; issue of identifying boundaries ofnational interest vis a vis Territory.0:10:00 Briefings and presentations to LegislativeAssembly. Completion of Legislation andDraft Territory Plan 1991. Decision toestablish consultancy. Invitation to work ondevelopment of Commonwealth’s BuildingBetter Cities Program at National CapitalPlanning Authority. Scope of Building BetterCities. Invitation to continue working onProgram in Office of Deputy Prime Minister,Brian Howe.0:15:03 Period of work with Minister; examples ofredevelopment projects across Australia andtheir challenges; work with stategovernments and regional councils todevelop area strategies.0:19:48 Presentation of plans to Cabinet forapproval. Better Cities continues until 1996when government changes in 1996. Privateconsultancy work. Adjunct Professor atUniversity of Canberra and involvement inits Centre for Developing Cities. Review andrestructure of Planning Institute of Australia;National Capital PlanningAuthority, National CapitalPlan, Rosemary Follett,Trevor KaineBill Harris, Ian Lawrence,Lyndsay Neilson. John MantBrian HoweUltimo-Pyrmont, Everleigh,Bunbury, Elizabeth-MunnoParaHawke, Keating, BarbaraNormanHMSS 0359 Planning Institute of Australia 2012-13 Oral History Projecthttp://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/search/Manuscript_Collections/hmss-0358-Institue-of-Planners-Oral-History-ProjectLibraries ACT I Ph: 6205 9000 I Website: www.library.act.gov.au
Life Fellow PIA.0:23:57 Enjoyment of range of work challenges.Review of interest of different workenvironments; teaching at University ofCanberra; the importance of other peopleand their skills in NCDC and Interim PlanningAuthority0:29:10 Experience of working with people inenabling role. Major changes in approach toplanning in Canberra and issues fromGriffin’s initial plan. Impact of NCDC. Valueof Commission as planning and developmentauthority as alternative to departmentalstructure.0:33:46 Major phases in planning Canberra; NewTown influence; YPlan; responding to ageingneighbourhoods. Development of socialplanning. Public transport as ongoing majorissue.0:37:44 Planning Canberra today: urban change;pressure of development in region. Light railas measure to address serious publictransport issue. Experience of living inCanberra; possibility of relationship withlandscape.0:43:26 End of sessionGeorge Tomlins, Phil O’Brien,Ron Willard, Paul Cohen,David Wright, John Bolton,Shibu Dhata, Guy Gibson,Mary Mealey, Val Musgrove,Georgian DonatoHMSS 0359 Planning Institute of Australia 2012-13 Oral History Projecthttp://www.library.act.gov.au/find/history/search/Manuscript_Collections/hmss-0358-Institue-of-Planners-Oral-History-ProjectLibraries ACT I Ph: 6205 9000 I Website: www.library.act.gov.au
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