News - Planning & development

Construction of Gungahlin town centre's "linear park" drags on - despite originally being meant to be completed by last Christmas.

While the first stage is finally open, the second stage is still fenced off. And it is hurting the businesses alongside, as reported in the Chronicle:-



A key problem the businesses have is that with the fencing erected outside the kerb, and cars parked along the side, delivery trucks cannot get through and deliveries are difficult. Then there is the ongoing dust...

GCC have been in the middle of email exchanges between the businesses owners and the LDA. It has to be said that the stand-out issue out of all this is that the LDA had no communication strategy in place for keeping the local businesses informed.

One would think that the ACT Government's development "experts" could get these sorts of basics right, but this story seems pretty typical from our experience. If ever there was an organisation overdue for a shake-up...

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