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Cooma-Monaro Land Development and Subdivision Control Plan
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The Hon. MELINDA PAVEY: My question is directed to the Minister for Lands. Does the Minister support the concept of tree change, which has seen the repopulation of inland New South Wales with people seeking to enhance their lifestyle and quality of life by leaving the rat race? If so, what is the Government doing to assist landholders in the Cooma district who are being prohibited from selling sections of their property if access is via a Crown public road or a legal right of way? Is the Minister aware of concerns of the Justice for Rural Landholders group, headed by Trevor Boucher, the former Federal Tax Commissioner, that this prohibition by Cooma-Monaro Shire Council is unjustly destroying land values for many landholders?
The Hon. TONY KELLY: The Government certainly strongly supports tree change and getting people to move out of the rat race to rural and regional areas, where it is half as expensive to set up than in the city. I understand that the Minister for Primary Industries is undertaking a review of some of the issues to which the honourable member has referred. The review is being conducted by an eminent person from the Central West, who was once my local member, the Hon. Garry West.
The Hon. Melinda Pavey: He is very honourable.
The Hon. TONY KELLY: He is honourable. He is a former Minister and he has applied to retain the honorific "The Hon.". I am not aware of the individual cases to which the Hon. Melinda Pavey referred in her question, but I will inquire about them.
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