PCC Facilities

The Gungahlin Community Council proudly manages the Palmerston Community Centre.

The Centre was built by the ACT Government in 2006. It is on Tiptree Crescent, adjacent to the Palmerston shops (see map).

Facilities

The centre has available for hire:

• Meeting Room 1 - a large hall with a sprung wooden floor (13.5 x 9m), direct access to the kitchen and a fenced outdoor play area with sandpit, soft-fall area and large storage lockers.
  This room has ducted heating but no air conditioning.
• Meeting Room 2 - a smaller meeting room (7 x 5.3m) with timber laminate floor, sink and water boiler, and lockers.
  This room has reverse cycle air conditioning.
• Office - 5.3 x 2m (currently leased)

Facilities include:

• Dedicated car parking
• Kitchen with servery to Room 1, stove, microwave, fridge, dishwasher, instant hot water boiler
• Baby change area, accessible entrances and toilets
• Furniture: 12 trestle tables, 3 board tables, 90 chairs
• Equipment (for cleaning up after your function!): vacuum cleaner, indoor and outdoor brooms, mops and buckets, window cleaners
• Note: no cutlery or crockery is provided.

View the facilities and a floorplan of the centre through this:

Virtual Photo Tour.

Bookings

Check out current bookings and available times on these calendars (they may a moment to load):

If the date and time you want appears to be available, please submit the:

Online Booking Enquiry

and the Centre Manager will contact you soon.
More complex enquiries can be emailed to pcc#gcc.asn.au (substitute the "#" with "@").

To secure your booking, we require a deposit of $100 or the total hire cost, whichever is the lesser amount, plus a signed copy of the:

Casual Hire Agreement

(If completing the Casual Hire Agreement for a confirmed booking, please print two copies - one for you and one for us.)

As the centre is in heavy demand, the balance of the total hire cost must be paid at least two weeks prior to the event, or the booking may be cancelled and the deposit forfeited.

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Hire Costs (effective 13 September 2010)

The centre in heavy demand for social functions on Saturday evenings. Therefore only full-centre casual bookings will be accepted for these evenings.

All rates include GST.

Key, cleaning and security bond

Cash only, payable on pickup of key(s).

Refundable on return of key(s), satisfactory inspection of cleaning, and no call-outs of security, police or management.
Excess cleaning will be deducted from the bond at the rate of $50 per hour.

The entire centre - inside and out - is a non-smoking zone. Breaches of this condition may result in forfeiture of your security bond.

Permanent and casual users       $150.00 per key
Social functions                        $600 deposit

Social Functions

As there are limited venues available in Gungahlin for social functions, we endeavour to keep the centre available for these on a limited number of evenings.
However, some functions have resulted in significant damage to the centre and nuisance to our neighbours. Therefore we have been forced to impose very strict conditions on such functions.
Hirers who look after the centre and respect our neighbours will get their bond back.
Those who do not will lose their bond, be charged for any additional expenses or damages, and be blacklisted from the centre.

We reserve the right to refuse to accept any social function booking if we suspect it could represent a risk of damage to the facilities or of noise nuisance to neighbours. Further, we reserve the right to require a security guard to be on site for the duration of the booking, with this to be arranged by us but paid for in advance by the hirer (approximately $50 per hour).

Flat rate hire            $300.00 - up to nine hours
Additional time         $40.00 per hour
Security bond          $600

While your function may continue after 10.00pm, ACT noise regulations apply after then!
Your function must be completed, and the centre cleaned and vacated by midnight.

Note the security bond conditions above.

Meeting Room 1

Casual users        $28.00 per hour
Permanent users  $20.00 per hour (includes school term-only bookings)

Meeting room 2

Casual users        $19.00 per hour
Permanent users  $16.00 per hour

Office

12 month lease     $125.00 per week