Page 2068 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 4 June 2019
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The decisions we make now about our city’s development, our energy supply and how people move around Canberra will make a big difference to our sustainability in the decades to come. So we understand the urgency of working with our community today to drive change.
Our city’s parks, playgrounds and local community centres are hubs for Canberrans to come together, spend time with family and friends or just enjoy being outdoors. As our city grows, we want to make sure that people in new suburbs and urban renewal areas have access to this great kind of great infrastructure, while also ensuring that facilities in more established suburbs are maintained to a high standard.
Through investments in this Budget, we will deliver a dedicated Home of Football at Throsby, which will include football pitches and an indoor futsal facility. The ovals will also be available for informal community use.
We are also undertaking early design and planning for the Stromlo Forest Park District Playing Fields, as part of our efforts to ensure local infrastructure grows alongside the new communities in the Molonglo Valley.
And we will start work on delivering a new community centre in the Woden Town Centre. The centre will provide a new home for Woden Community Service to deliver a range of integrated services, as well as space for community use.
Buying a house or apartment is a big commitment, and Canberrans want to know that their new home is going to last. Good quality building is important to ensure new homes are livable, safe, environmentally efficient and do not end up with expensive defects.
In response to feedback from the community, we will continue working to improve building quality across our suburbs and town centres by boosting resources for the ACT’s building regulator.
We will hire 16 more staff for Access Canberra to undertake more monitoring and compliance activity, as well as provide more information to industry and homebuyers about their rights and obligations when carrying out building work. These staff will also deliver more examinations for builders’ licences, ensuring local builders have the right knowledge and skills to do quality work.
Through this Budget we are investing in Canberra’s infrastructure, people, environment and neighbourhoods, to make sure that this place—our home and our community—keeps getting better in the years to come.
Making smart and sustainable use of our balance sheet
Building for the future means investing today.
The investments we are making through this Budget will benefit Canberrans for years to come. So we are not going to ask the community to pay for these up front through higher taxes or more fees and charges.
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