Written by Alan Kerlin Sunday, 23 March 2008 04:51
GCC will be meeting with ACT Planning Minister Andrew Barr about this and other Gungahlin issues on 26 March 2008, but I got five minutes with him before the Planning and Development Forum meeting on 19 March. On our concerns about Flemington Road he quoted numbers of units versus townhouses as evidence that the Concept Plan would not become the 'townhouse tunnel' we are predicting.
On the surface those numbers look convincing:
234 townhouses and duplexes (townhouses by another name) - 24.4%
874 multi-units - 71.4%
But it is the frontage along Flemington Road that we are concerned about, and the recreation of the "Anthony Rolfe Drive" effect (apologies again to anyone living on that road!). A calculation of these figures is far more telling.
Total Flemington Road frontage:
37% Townhouses
21% Units and commercial
17% Side roads
25% Open space (mostly the North Mitchell Grasslands in one section)
Or to just compare the total built form frontages:
64% Townhouses
36% Units and commercial
And the numbers are backed up by the words in the plan themselves:
'Building form will generally be consistent, compatible and continuous for the full length of the corridor.'On the surface those numbers look convincing:
234 townhouses and duplexes (townhouses by another name) - 24.4%
874 multi-units - 71.4%
But it is the frontage along Flemington Road that we are concerned about, and the recreation of the "Anthony Rolfe Drive" effect (apologies again to anyone living on that road!). A calculation of these figures is far more telling.
Total Flemington Road frontage:
37% Townhouses
21% Units and commercial
17% Side roads
25% Open space (mostly the North Mitchell Grasslands in one section)
Or to just compare the total built form frontages:
64% Townhouses
36% Units and commercial
And the numbers are backed up by the words in the plan themselves:
Pretty much says it all right there...
'Groups of attached town houses provide a continuous and strong built form to Flemington Road.'
Strong all right!
'Townhouse blocks fronting Flemington Road will have a maximum width of 9.5m.'
'The length and width of the study corridor...will need significant building form to de-scale the large areas of road pavement.'
Or better open space between more condensed buildings?
Why here in the "Bush Capital" are we recreating Coronation Street?
And THAT is why we are concerned Minister Barr.
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