Each week, the North Canberra Community Council is sent a weekly summary of all new significant development applications that are also notified in the Canberra Times and on ACTPLA’s website at the following link: http://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/pubnote/index.asp The latest development applications lodged for the North Canberra area and open for comment include:
Fix My Street is an online reporting facility which provides direct contact to ACT Government Agencies for the reporting of municipal service requests. Residents can submit service requests by choosing from the menu of topics (as listed below). In addition, residents can create an account on the system to track progress of the feedback provided. Web link for ‘Fix My Street’ Typical issues covered include:
If you provide, participate or want to participate in physical activities in Inner North Canberra and/or love foods that build a healthy body, you are invited to attend this event. We need your feedback about what’s needed in inner north Canberra to support a healthy lifestyle. DATE: Tuesday 29th JUNE 2010 TIME: 9.30 am – 2 pm VENUE: GRIFFIN CENTRE Room 6, Genge St. Canberra City Morning tea and light lunch will be provided AND free ‘Healthy Food Fast’ Cookbooks to the first 50 RSVP’s RSVP and more details from Lynne Ph: 6207 8738; email: lynne.prentice@act.gov.au
The following article has been reproduced from the Canberra Times: Prime commercial sites passed in at Civic auctions JOHN THISTLETON A glut of commercial development space in Canberra and fears of a legal challenge over a planning amendment on City Hill are being blamed for two premium development blocks at Civic being passed in at auction yesterday. Billed as ”sensational”, ”the pulse of the city” and the ”city’s ultimate address”, the London Circuit car park sites failed to meet the ACT Government’s reserve price.
The following article has been reproduced from the ABC News website: Little interest in Civic building sites The ACT Government’s land and property services expert says he was surprised by the lack of national interest from property developers in the auction of two key city sites yesterday. The two sites on London Circuit which failed to sell in the auction yesterday are currently under a 48 hour negotiation process with local developers. Bidding started slowly and inched towards $5.25 million and $8.6 million for the respective blocks, well below the expected prices. A similar inner city car park site sold …
Matthew Driver of Lyneham has extensively retrofitted his 1950’s Lyneham house, dramatically reducing electricity, gas and water use and cutting their households carbon emissions on energy use from 19 Tonne a year to minus one Tonne. Join See-Change for a tour of this house to see what can be achieved with your existing house. On display will be rain water harvesting, DIY grey water distribution, a solar food dryer, a solar food cooker, two DIY solar air heater designs as well as the more conventional solar hot water and solar PV systems. Date: Sunday 27 June 2010 Time: 13:00 for …
The Community Noticeboard, is a weekly one-stop location of all ACT Government community engagement activities. At time of publication of this article (Monday 21 June 2010) there has been no electronic edition of the Community Noticeboard published by the ACT Government for 19 June 2010
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to four aggravated robberies that occurred over the weekend, with two occurring in Dickson, one in Red Hill and one in Woden. About 1.25am on Saturday 19 June, four males were walking along Antill Street, Dickson, when they were approached by five males. As the four males attempted to walk through the group an assault has occurred. One of the victims has had his backpack taken from him by two of the offenders and a wallet was stolen from another victim.
Each week, the North Canberra Community Council is sent a weekly summary of all new significant development applications that are also notified in the Canberra Times and on ACTPLA’s website at the following link: http://apps.actpla.act.gov.au/pubnote/index.asp The latest development applications lodged for the North Canberra area and open for comment include:
