Gungahlin’s town centre could be made pedestrian-only during the day under new planning rules discussed at the Gungahlin Community Council (GCC) meeting last week. The ACT Planning and Land Authority (ACTPLA) is currently developing detailed draft planning rules for the Gungahlin town centre. ACTPLA has been discussing the plans with interested parties and used last week’s...

ACT Greens leader Meredith Hunter remains confident Gungahlin will soon have a government shopfront despite the ACT Government reneging on the two parties’ agreement to establish one this year. The Labor-Greens agreement was signed after last year’s October 18 election and contained several Greens initiatives the Government committed to implement in exchange for the Greens’...

Owners of residential properties in the ACT will be paying on average an extra $43 in general rates next financial year. The general rates increase is on average $19 for rural properties and $202 for commercial properties. Some households will face bigger rises due to increases in unimproved...

More than three-quarters of the Government’s $187 million spending on roads is in Gungahlin to cope with a population explosion predicted for the northern suburbs during the next 20 years. Budget 2009-2010 Capital Projects in Gungahlin: $84.6 million for the Gungahlin Drive...

The next meeting of the Gungahlin Community Council will be held on Wednesday, May 13 at 7.30pm. A representative from the ACT planning and Land Authority will update residents on the Gungahlin town centre planning and traffic study and ACT Greens MLA Caroline le Couteur will explain her bill...

A couple recently back from their honeymoon received a shock yesterday when their elderly neighbour accidentally drove through their front wall. The residents of the Bargang Crescent, Ngunnawal, home were out when the vehicle crashed through the living room wall about 4pm, causing significant...

The population of the Gungahlin Statistical Subdivision continues to rise and, according to the ‘Regional Population Growth, Australia, 2007-08’ report (issued last week by the Australian Bureau of Statistics), reached almost 38,000 on 30 June 2008. This was up 2,900 people on the...

Gungahlin’s rapid growth brings construction forward. Construction of Harrison High School will start as early as March next year with next week’s budget to contain $43.5 million to build the new school. The funds allocated over three years, should allow the school to be up and...

Gungahlin will get its promised $6 million enclosed oval in next week’s ACT budget, the Government says. The new oval will be built over the next two years and will have seating for 1,100 people, change rooms and kiosks. Final designs for the oval are expected to include an irrigated...

It was an eerie day in Canberra yesterday (15 April 2009) as a brown haze blocked out the sun and shrouded landmarks while a ferocious wind whipped through the city. Dust, and lots of it, blew in from South West NSW, as far away as Albury and Wagga Wagga. Bureau of Meteorology spokesman...