The Mr Fluffy asbestos legacy continues to be a matter of great interest and concern for residents of the inner south. The Inner South Canberra Community Council will hold a public forum on 5 March 2015, at which the ACT Government Asbestos Response Taskforce and other relevant agencies will brief…
Our inner south Canberra suburbs are a nearly century old. If they are to survive for another hundred years we need to ensure we have a planning system that helps maintain their distinctive amenity, garden city values and heritage in the face of inevitable pressure for redevelopment.
2015 promises to be another very busy year for the Inner South Canberra Community Council. High on our agenda is finalising our consultations with the ACT Government on the redevelopment of the Stuart Flats, Gowrie Court and Red Hill Flats in Griffith and Red Hill. We are pleased that the…
Canberra’s community councils have long been concerned about the management of concessional leases by successive ACT Governments. Too often we have seen organisations obtain windfall gains by converting their concessional leases to purposes other than those for which they were originally granted. Instead of being available to the community for…
The ISCCC and Yarralumla Residents Association had a very poductive meeting in late October with the Chief Minister on community concerns about asbestos issues at the Canberra Brickworks development.
The proposed redevelopment of three public housing complexes in inner south Canberra will directly impact on many of our residents, in areas such as urban amenity, traffic volumes, accommodation of existing public tenants, open space, building heights and so on.
Over the past few weeks the Inner South Canberra Community Council has worked hard with the ACT Government and local residents’ groups to ensure there is effective public consultation on proposed variations to the Territory Plan which will vitally affect our communities.
Governments come in for well-deserved criticism when they do not properly consult the community on development projects that deeply affect local residents. However, bouquets to ACT Planning and Land Authority which has initiated a very early consultative process with the Inner South Canberra Community Council in relation to a series…
One of the biggest issues currently before the ISCCC is the ACT Government’s plan to build a massive new residential development for about 4,000 people on both sides of Adelaide Avenue, near where it meets Cotter Road, adjacent to the Canberra Brickworks.
The Inner South Community Council has, once again, closely engaged with planning and politics on behalf of the local community. Readers may not be aware that the Planning and Development (Project Facilitation) Amendment Bill 2014 was introduced to the Assembly, in March. This legislation was to take effect this month.
Although Canberra is only a century old, the city’s built heritage is being eroded every day. Residents’ groups, community councils and other organisations such as the National Trust are forever having to fight rear-guard actions to save what we should be preserving for the benefit of future generations.
