5005 PROOF

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

No. 148

THURSDAY 13 MAY 2010

(The Questions and Answers Paper published for the first sitting day in each week will contain, by number and title, all unanswered questions, together with questions to which answers have been received on the previous sitting and any new questions. On subsequent days, new questions are printed, as are questions to which answers were received the previous day. Consequently the full text of any question will be printed only twice: when notice is given; and, when answered.)

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Q & A No. 143 (Including Question Nos 4227 to 4268) 25 May 2010

Q & A No. 144 (Including Question Nos 4269 to 4282) 26 May 2010

Q & A No. 145 (Including Question Nos 4283 to 4312) 27 May 2010

Q & A No. 146 (Including Question Nos 4314 to 4339) 15 June 2010

Q & A No. 147 (Including Question Nos 4340 to 4346) 16 June 2010

Q & A No. 148 (Including Question Nos 4347 to 4351) 17 June 2010

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4347 PLANNING—KENDALL’S STEAM FLOURMILL—Ms Hale to ask the Minister for Planning, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Lands— (1) Has the NSW Heritage Office received submissions from residents of Campbelltown requesting the listing of the historic Kendall's steam flourmill, built in 1845 and currently listed as an item of local heritage significance under the Campbelltown (Urban Area) Local Environmental Plan 2002, on the State Heritage Register? (2) Has the NSW Heritage Office received a request from Campbelltown City Council to list the Kendall's Mill buildings on the State Heritage Register? (3) What has been done to prevent the demolition by neglect, of the Kendall's Mill building as a result of the current owner's failure to maintain the building in a manner consistent with its historical significance? (4) What measures are being introduced to oblige owners of items of local heritage significance to maintain them appropriately rather than allowing deterioration to the point that demolition becomes inevitable?

4348 HEALTH—AIR POLLUTION AND HEALTH RISK—Ms Hale to ask the Attorney General, Minister for Citizenship, Minister for Regulatory Reform, and Vice President of the Executive Council representing the Deputy Premier, and Minister for Health— (1) Has NSW Health conducted or overseen further research to identify groups at risk from air pollution in the Sydney Basin as part of the ongoing development of strategies to minimise the health impacts for those groups? (2) Has any research been undertaken to establish the health effects of air pollution hot spots on at risk groups? (3) Has NSW Health looked into the effectiveness of exposure mitigation strategies?

4349 HEALTH—POSSIBLE POLLUTION HOTSPOT IN GRANVILLE AND HEALTH RISK—Ms Hale to ask the Attorney General, Minister for Citizenship, Minister for Regulatory Reform, and Vice President of the Executive Council representing the Deputy Premier, and Minister for Health— (1) Has NSW Health identified residents that live in the Granville area surrounded by Parramatta Road (55,000 vehicle movements per day), Church Street and Woodville Road (80,000 vehicle movements per day), the M4 Motorway (over 100,000 vehicle movements per day), Good Street (12,000 vehicle movements per day) and the Main Western Railway Line (30 to 40 diesel powered trains daily), as a group at risk from air pollution? (2) Despite repeated requests from Granville residents to Parramatta Council, the former Parramatta Council Mayor and now State Member for Granville, David Borger, the former NSW Premier, , the former Minister for the Environment, Phil Koperberg and several other state and federal ministers, why has no resident in this area of Granville been interviewed by NSW Health regarding the impacts on them from air pollution? (3) What action has the Minister for Health taken to mitigate the effects of air pollution on residents in response to the Health Impact Assessment 2006 report by Sydney West Area Health that identified greater Granville as the most disadvantaged area of the Parramatta Local Government Area?

4350 CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT—AIR POLLUTION MONITORING—Ms Hale to ask the Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Commerce, Minister for Energy, Minister for Public Sector Reform representing the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer)— (1) In 2004 Regional Monitoring Stations at Westmead and Blacktown were closed and at St Marys air monitoring was reduced. Between 2004-2008 was the nearest air pollution monitoring site to Granville, Chullora Monitoring Site located approximately 15 kilometres away? (2) In 2008 was a new air pollution monitoring station opened at Prospect about nine kilometres from

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the Granville area? (3) Is this Prospect monitoring station further than one kilometre from a main road? (4) (a) Are any of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water's (DECCW) air pollution monitoring stations within 500 metres of Parramatta Road in Western Sydney? (b) If so, which monitoring stations are within 500m? (5) (a) Do DECCW air pollution monitoring stations measure regional ambient air quality? (b) (i) Do DECCW air pollution monitoring stations measure local ambient air quality or point source pollution? (ii) If not, why not? (6) (a) Given coarse PM 10 particles are concentrated within 200 metres of any roadway, is DECCW monitoring the presence of these particles within 200m of Sydney's major traffic arteries? (b) If not, why not? (7) (a) Why did the Government phase out roadside pollution monitoring of PM 2.5 particles? (b) (i) Will the Government re-introduce roadside pollution monitoring for PM2.5 as they have in Queensland and other States? (ii) If so, when? (iii) If not, why not?

4351 CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT—POLLUTION HOTSPOT IN GRANVILLE AND AIR POLLUTION MONITORING—Ms Hale to ask the Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Commerce, Minister for Energy, Minister for Public Sector Reform representing the Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer)— (1) In 2006 the General Purpose Standing Committee No. 2 inquiry, health impacts of air pollution in the Sydney basin, indicated that there were pollution hotspots in western Sydney. Was the land which adjoins Parramatta Road and the Western Rail network with the M4 to the north and Good Street to the east identified as, or located in, a pollution hot spot? (2) Has the Department of Environment, Climate Change & Water (DECCW) identified residents in the Granville area surrounded by Parramatta Road (55,000 vehicle movements per day), Church Street and Woodville Road (80,000 vehicle movements per day), the M4 Motorway (over 100,000 vehicle movements per day), Good Street (12,000 vehicle movements per day) and the Main Western Railway Line (30 to 40 diesel powered trains daily), as possibly being at risk from high levels of air pollution? (3) Despite repeated requests from Granville residents to Parramatta Council, the former Parramatta Council Mayor and now State Member for Granville, David Borger MP, the former NSW Premier, Morris Iemma MP, the former Minister for the Environment, Phil Koperberg MP and other state and federal ministers, why has there been no air quality monitoring in the area by DECCW? (4) (a) How much pollution is generated by the 30 to 40 diesel locomotives passing along the railway line at the site which adjoins Parramatta Road and the Western Rail network with the M4 to the north and Good Street to the east? (b) If there has not been any assessment of air pollution from diesel locomotives, when will an assessment be made?

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Lynn Lovelock Clerk of the Parliaments

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