North Canberra Community Council

Invitiation to Comment: Play Space Renewal (closing 3 August 2008)

Territory and Municipal Services will be renewing seven play spaces across the ACT in the 2009-10 financial year. The Playground Safety Program is an ongoing capital works program that renews ACT play spaces in line with Australian and ACT Standards. A consultant will be engaged in August 2009 to prepare the design and manage the construction of the new play spaces. To inform the design of the renewed play spaces TAMS is seeking comment on the play space renewals. In the Inner North, the Cockle Street local play space is scheduled for renewal.

Development Applications in the North Canberra district open to public comment for 24 July 2009

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:

New owner for Summernats, confirmed to continue at EPIC until at least 2012

ABC News Online are confirming that the new owners of Summernats have signed a three year lease with Exhibition Park and are hoping to extend the event beyond 2012. The sale and continuation of Summernats is also further confirmed with a news entry on the Summernats website. The new promoters have previously produced several large events such as the Pope’s Mass for 400,000 people at Randwick Racecourse for World Youth Day and other large events and festivals around Australia.

Curfew4Canberra: Noise readings ring death knell on 24-hour airport hub

Curfew for Canberra a group formed  in response to Canberra Airport’s proposal to massively expand its operations to include a 24-hour passenger and freight hub, and become Sydney’s second airport without a night-time curfew to protect sleeping hours from aircraft noise, released the following media release on 19 July 2009: First readings from the Hackett Noise Monitor1 confirm what residents’ ears have long been telling them – aircraft noise is experienced in North Canberra at levels that will disturb sleep if the proposed 24-hour freight and passenger hub goes ahead. A new report by Airservices Australia shows that aircraft can …