Gap analysis
I advocate for holistic planning that includes the needs of residents in all parts of Canberra and provides a fairer distribution of social infrastructure.
Canberra’s Indoor Sports Stadiums
Town Centres should have essential services. One of those is the opportunity for physical exercise. There is a big gap in the South of Canberra.
Woden, Molonglo and Gungahlin are currently missing out. Gungahlin is proposed to have an indoor sports facility in Casey.
Spaces for sport to flourish allow clubs to grow. That means higher participation for players, coaches and supporting volunteers.
Canberra’s 50m pools
The Inner North has Dickson Pool.
The City is closer to AIS (Federal), Big Splash (private) and CISAC (private) than Woden is to the Stromlo Leisure Centre.
The location of social infrastructure across Canberra is not planned fairly.
Canberra’s artsACT facilities
Molonglo, Weston Creek, much of Woden Valley and Gungahlin are all out of catchment rings.
When I was part of the Woden Valley Community Council, I hosted ‘Creative Woden’ Art Exhibition on the ground floor of Lovett Tower which brought local artists together and gave them a space to showcase their work - an opportunity the government still has yet to provide.
* Nissen Hut Store has been omitted from this map as it is a storage facility.
Canberra’s Town Centres
The design of Canberra is based on having ‘satellite cities,’ i.e., Town Centres. These centres should provide essential services allowing people living within the catchment to live locally.
Through ‘living locally,’ community and a sense of belonging is built. This is important to nourish minds, bodies and souls.
The arrows show the general movement of public transport to the Town Centres.
Gap Analysis
The ‘Pipeline of Projects’ shows future investments. All these projects are located in the North of Canberra with majority in the ‘Golden Triangle.’
We need an equitable distribution of social and economic infrastructure across Canberra.
South Canberra’s Public Transport routes
The government plans to build light rail to Woden and then Tuggeranong. I am asking what the public transport network look like if/when that happens.
If the light rail goes to Woden, will people from South Woden and Tuggeranong need to change from their suburb bus to a rapid and then onto the light rail in Woden to get to the city?
We don’t know. How can Canberrans know if investing billions into light rail is a good idea when we don’t yet know what the public transport network will look like.
Molonglo Library
We need to plan for a library in Molonglo that can be established in a temporary site (now) and moved to the town centre when it is built.
Canberra’s off-leash dog parks
The Assembly passed my motion calling on the government to undertake an Options Report for sites in Molonglo and Woden Town Centre to put a fenced off-leash dog park.
Woden Town Centre has a large number of residential towers with many of them housing pets. These people need somewhere to give their pets a safe area to socialise and exercise.
Woden Valley’s Public Primary Schools
Currently, the children and parents living in Chifley must travel further than anyone else in the Woden Valley to get to school. This prevents children from walking to school, it increases traffic from parents traveling across the valley to drop off their kids and then head on to work.
Chifley school is well-connected to the surrounding areas and Town Centre via a good path network with underpasses.
MY VISIONS
My vision for the broader Woden Town Centre
My vision for the Weston Creek Group Centre
MY vision for the Mawson Southlands Group Centre