Members of Weston Creek Community Council will raise concerns about a roundabout planned to link the Canberra Brickworks precinct to a busy thoroughfare at this week’s meeting. The roundabout plan was submitted in October last year as the best option for a new access road connecting the brickworks precinct to Dudley Street. Under the feasibility and concept design report prepared… Continue reading
The community can now have their say on the first 11 water infrastructure projects as part of the Territory’s $80 million ACT Healthy Waterways project, a partnership between the Australian and ACT Governments. The Eleven projects that have been submitted for development approval will span across four catchments – The Lower Molonglo, West Belconnen, Lake Tuggeranong and Yarralumla Creek. The… Continue reading
The ACT Government has released for public comment draft variation number 348 (DV348), to embed the active living principles into the Territory Plan. Continue reading
We have just been informed that Transport Canberra has partnered with Transport NSW which means that ACT Seniors My Way card holders are entitled to concession travel in NSW using NSW Gold Opal Card. Therefore Seniors with an early ACT Seniors Card (i.e. one that has 6 numbers as opposed to 9 on the current cards) will need to apply for a card replacement in order to apply for an NSW Gold Opal Card. Continue reading
Council decided to record the promises made by each of the major political parties in the lead up to the October 2016 ACT Election. Continue reading
The ACT Government committed $33m as part of the 2016-2017 budget for a new 50m pool at Stromlo Forest Park. Continue reading
An estimated 30,000 people live in Weston Creek and the newly built suburbs of Wright and Coombs next door. However the residents in the new areas of Molonglo have no local shops or a service station, and most drive about ten minutes to Coolamon Court in Weston Creek to stock up. The chair of Weston Creek Community Council Tom Anderson… Continue reading
The next meeting of the Weston Creek Community Council is at 7:30pm, Wednesday 22 February 2017 at the Raiders Club, Liardet St, Weston (click for map). See our Meetings page for further deatils about WCCC meetings Continue reading
>Work has started on the 2nd Stage of the Cotter Road Duplication from Yarralumla Creek to the Tuggeranong Parkway. The signs are up at each end of the proposed works and the tree clearing and digging has begun alongside the current bridge over Yarralumla Creek. As well the fences are being placed to the north of the Cotter Road in the treed area which likely shows the limit of the the road works that will occur.
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The ACT Legislative Assembly election will be held on 15 October 2016. If you are an Australian citizen, 18 years old or more, and living in the ACT, it is compulsory to enrol and vote in this election. If you won’t be able to go to a polling place on polling day, 15 October, there are other ways you can… Continue reading
