Page 2050 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 6 August 2014
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The proposal the LDA have put forward seeks to respond to a growing trend in our society to provide more housing diversity in a variety of neighbourhoods that meet the needs of people of all ages, abilities, lifestyles and income, to provide diversity of housing choice through sustainable and universal design of apartments and townhouses and importantly to enable ageing in place and to build stronger and more diverse communities.
It also seeks to answer the community’s call for well-designed infill housing in locations that support services and sustainable public transport in order to encourage a greater social mix and add to the richness of neighbourhoods. It builds on an understanding expressed that many people would prefer to stay in the suburbs or areas that they currently live in but be able to downsize and continue to support their local shopping centres, schools, transport and services.
Turning now to the detail of the brickworks development, this project seeks to provide a vibrant and compact new community adjacent to a strategic transport corridor in Adelaide Avenue and seeks to develop an elegant extension to the suburb of Yarralumla. Through the adaptive reuse of the brickworks, key heritage infrastructure and facilities are to be conserved and high-quality public realm and urban parklands are designed to enhance the amenity, both for existing residents but also for future residents and, indeed, for the broader Canberra community.
The strategy formalises the access of Dunrossil Drive through the delivery of a boulevard extension towards Adelaide Avenue, celebrating the significant role of access to Government House and it provides housing diversity within this area. It supplies an opportunity, as I have mentioned, for existing Yarralumla residents to age in place, as well as clearly delivering housing options for a wider demographic of Canberrans and Australians.
The LDA, as Mr Doszpot indicated, commenced an initial engagement through a draft strategy in early 2010. Since then, a broad and comprehensive engagement strategy has followed. As Mr Doszpot again alluded to, the first of what will be a number of information sessions was held on the site on 31 May. It commenced a six-week consultation period on this element of the delivery of the project.
Comments and feedback are still being received—and that is important—and this is being collated by the LDA. I can advise the Assembly that information has been gathered from a telephone survey of 1,400 participants, including 500 people in Yarralumla, Deakin and Curtin and a further 900 people living in the rest of Canberra. Some 136 feedback forms have been completed by members of the public, 92 from residents of Yarralumla, 18 from Deakin, and eight from Curtin. This has provided important feedback in relation to the draft proposal.
The aspects of the proposal that were most supported by this group included the restoration of the brickworks, 63 people; the public spaces and parks, 35 people; and the diversity of housing options, 16 people. The development aspects that were least supported by respondents related to traffic concerns, 83 people; the level of residential development proposed, 51 people; and the type of residential development proposed, 43 people.
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