Planning regulation will reduce red tape and boost childcare places


Released 25/07/2017

A new regulation exempting child care centres from having to pay a lease variation charge could reduce paperwork for the government and their clients, smoothing the way for additional child care places in the ACT.

“At the moment, while a lease variation to include the use of a ‘childcare centre' or increase the number of places at a centre is eligible for a 100 per cent remission of the lease variation charge, there is still a requirement to go through the administrative steps to get to the stage where the assessed lease variation charge (LVC) is not required to be paid,” Minister Gentleman said.

“The value of land can be greatly increased when what you are allowed to do on it is changed, often allowing the developer to make a significant profit. The LVC was designed to return some of the economic benefits to the community that are gained through the granting of development rights.

In 2011 the ACT Government introduced measures to provide for 100 per cent remission of the LVC for applications to vary a lease to include child care services.  In 2014, a second disallowable instrument extended this remission to March 2016 as part of a two year Government stimulus package for the ACT.

“This regulation is a sensible move that makes the earlier temporary measures more permanent and easier to administer,” Minister Gentleman said.

“It reduces government red tape, allowing scarce resources to be directed elsewhere and removes another administrative barrier to getting childcare centres up and running in the ACT,” Minister Gentleman said.

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