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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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.

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.

It took two years for the scaffolding and the barricades to be removed and now we have plantings at the front.

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 …

Our thanks to John Edquist and Sue Tongue who undertook a very detailed analysis of the limited number of plans, drawings and statements provided by Housing ACT (HACT) and posted to the ACTPLA website for yet another attempt to comply with the supportive housing standards.  These selected documents were provided …

‘Blaxland Park’ by artist Lynne Flemons gets top billing at the Show Offs exhibition that will be open from 6-30 July at the M16 Gallery in Griffith. Blaxland Park was gazetted in 2013 to commemorate the crossing of the Blue Mountains in 1813 by Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William …

Our community is frustrated, bewildered and angry at the long delay in giving us access to our footpaths, and restoring the Manuka ambience we appreciate, while a hotel is built. Our civil society, that thrives on interdependence, tolerates acceptable disruption. But this has been going on for months. Would mediation help? Is legislation …