Inner North

Congratulations to the Lyneham Primary School community on 50 years of educational excellence.

The Dickson Centre Planning Project is up and running. This project will guide the future of urban planning in the Dickson centre.

The second community information display will be held on Tuesday 20 October 2009 from 4pm to 7pm in the Dickson centre near Woolworths. This information display is an opportunity for locals to drop in and have a say on the draft designs and ideas developed as a result of the recent Dickson design workshop.

Students going back for the first day of term four will notice some impressive changes, with more than $1 million in school upgrades completed and over $17 million worth of projects started over the school holidays.  

Together the ACT Labor Government and the Rudd Government are investing more than half a billion to upgrade every ACT school. This is delivering a wide range of projects from classrooms being repainted to new school halls, libraries and performing arts centres.

I turned the first sod on the site of the $3 million Turner School library, the first ACT project announced under Primary Schools for the 21^st Century (P21) part of Federal Labor’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) program.

The Community Facility Zone Development Code (CFZDC) and its associated Development Table is currently being reviewed as part of the Territory Plan review.

A discussion paper has been released seeking comment from the ACT community about how the code and table might be revised.

Key questions have been identified, based on ACTPLA’s recent research and experiences. However these are intended only as a basis for discussion and suggestions about additional potential issues and policy measures are welcome.

As part of the ACT Government's development of the Sustainable Transport Action Plan 2010-2016, a review is being undertaken to improve cycling and pedestrian networks.

A contract has been awarded to a local company, Cardno Eppell Olsen, for $140,000 to undertake an extensive review of Canberra's commuter bicycle network in line with the Sustainable Transport Action Plan.

A design workshop will be held on on Thursday September 24 from 5.30pm to 8.00pm at Dickson Tradies (Housie Hall), off Dickson Place, Dickson.

The workshop will consider things like land use, building heights and density in the Dickson centre.
RSVP by phoning 02 6257 1511 or emailing purdons@purdon.com.au by COB Wednesday 23 September.

The Chief Minister and Minister for Business and Economic Development, Jon Stanhope MLA, haslaunched the first edition of Canberra Construction Snapshot, a biannual newsletter on construction works and capital projects.

Snapshot draws together in one place information about allof the major Government and private-sector infrastructure, capital works and development projects either in progress or expected to proceed in the ACT and the region and it sends a powerful message that the ACT is open for business.

I am pleased to announce the membership of the new Exhibition Park in Canberra Community Advisory Group (EPICCAG).  The group comprises representatives with experience in events and business, as well as expertise in sustainability. 

The Dickson Centre Planning Project is now underway. This project will guide the future of urban planning in the Dickson centre.

Details of recent and upcoming opportunities for you to have your say are outlined below.