The petition of residents of Queensland draws to the attention of the House that the Settlement land at Springbrook was purchased by the Government nearly ten years ago under the Regional Open Space System (The Ross Scheme) with the specific aim of providing recreational, cultural, social and economic benefits for residents and visitors (1994 Government publication). The scheme specifically provided that land use could include passive and active recreational areas, trails, educational centres and facilities for holiday programmes, afforestation projects. When the property was in private hands it was used by locals and visitors for a range of activities, but now pending the long awaited Draft Management Plan for the Settlement local families, youth and visitors to the mountain are unable to access and use the existing facilities for picnics, barbeques, sport and other recreational activities. With increasing pressure on National Parks it seems illogical that public money has been spent on shelter sheds and picnic tables that no one is allowed to use. Springbrook can consider itself unique in Australia as being the only community with a safe, regularly maintained public oval and picnic ground which has remained inaccessible for nearly ten years and at which people can only gaze through locked gates. Your petitioners therefore request the House to immediately reopen for public access the existing oval and associated facilities contained within the property known as the Settlement, located at Springbrook.