2024 Old Narrabundah Community Festival
The ONCC Community Festival will be held on Saturday 23 March from 10am-2pm at the Tennis & Garden Centre, Kootara Crescent, Narrabundah. For more details please refer to the attached flyer.
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2024 GNCA Community Engagement & Raffle Stands
We have received 24 prizes from our 17 Griffith/Red Hill Shops sponsors and 40 prizes from our 26 Manuka sponsors. The period of Raffle ticket sales is from 10 February – 23 March 2024, with the Raffle being drawn at 2pm on Saturday 23 March 2024 at the Griffith Shops. …
ISCCC ACT Election 2024 Public Forum
ACT Election 2024 – What are the Inner South’s priorities ? Keep the date – Public Forum 26 February, 7pm Eastlakes Football Club, 3 Oxley St, Griffith What issues would you like to put on the table? Planning, housing, transport, help for young people, the elderly or minority communities? Or something …
‘Canberra Milk’ Factory has new owners
The Canberra Raiders are the new owners of the former ‘Canberra Milk’ factory near Fyshwick, in partnership with a local developer, Doma Group. It is understood the sale price was about the mid-$20 million range. ‘Canberra Milk’ has a long history with the Canberra Raiders, having sponsored the NRL team …
Proposed new health centre for Griffith
The Health Minister Rachel-Stephen Smith met with the GNCA Committee on 13 September and visited three possible sites near the Griffith shops on 15 September with several officials from the Health Directorate and one from the Planning Directorate. We were told the Manuka site (where MOCCA is situated) was not …
Proposed heritage listing of Kingston Post Office
The Kingston Post Office building at the corner of Giles and Jardine Streets in Kingston has been provisionally listed for registration by the Heritage Council. Members can respond on the Yoursay website linked here or make a written submission. The Post Office was the first purpose-built Post Office in Canberra …
MORE CHANGES TO CAPITOL HOTEL IN MANUKA
On 29 June 2023 the Government approved an application to amend the Development Application for the hotel a third time. The original application was submitted in February 2021. Several changes have taken place since then, including one in November 2022 and the most recent one which was approved on 29 …
NO PROGRESS ON STAGE 2 – CAPITOL HOTEL
Meanwhile work on Stage 2 has not even started, and the site is boarded up. At least we can use the footpath!! We await a resolution from the prolonged discussions between the ACT government and the developer.
PROPOSED GRIFFITH HEALTH CENTRE
Our local member and Health Minister, Rachel Stephen Smith, has offered to meet with the GNCA to discuss the recently announced proposed health centre for Griffith. We will keep inner south residents informed about this development.
CAPITOL HOTEL -STAGE 1- NEARS COMPLETION
It took two years for the scaffolding and the barricades to be removed and now we have plantings at the front.
GNCA AGM – SAVE THE DATE
Our AGM will be held at 7pm on Wednesday 25 October at the East Hotel, Kingston and Barbara Norman will be our guest speaker. Barbara is the Foundation Chair, Urban and Regional Planning Director of CURF Faculty of Business and Government at the University of Canberra. The Federal Government has …