00:01A limited street food menu, cooked on a portable barbecue, set up under a fold-out gazebo.
00:08Add in a portaloo and you've got the promised unlicensed family restaurant at the Big Splash site.
00:14Having a couple of trestle tables with a barbecue for one day only is not what we think is an
00:20unlicensed family restaurant.
00:21Farcical. I don't think anyone thinks that's good enough and I don't think the minister should think it's good enough
00:27either.
00:28The owners of the waterpark originally said they'd have the pool back on operation by November 1.
00:33When it became clear that wasn't going to happen, they said they'd instead run a restaurant on the site in
00:40order to comply with the conditions of the lease.
00:43After yesterday's pop-up, today the site sat empty.
00:46The community is angry about this. The community is really tired of lease squatting and they expect the government to
00:54be taking charge.
00:55Access Canberra says its hands are tied.
00:59Access Canberra is considered a range of factors and is satisfied that on the balance of probabilities, it's more likely
01:05than not that this lease is compliant.
01:07The regulator saying it can't take legal action because its role is to apply the law as it stands.
01:13The potential permissiveness of the lease, the activity yesterday and the other activity over the last few months about the
01:20replacement of the fence, we don't see that we would be likely to succeed in an action.
01:25The site remains on the market but no buyer has been found.
01:29The ACT government announced in September it would prepare a report that would detail the cost of bringing the venue
01:36back into operation.
01:37That won't be ready until later next year and with the regulator saying there's not enough evidence to justify further
01:43action, the future of the site will remain in limbo.
01:47conceptualization.
01:47You
