The Tuggeranong Community Council will host its own “Great Debate” as part of the 2010 Federal Election Campaign.
Candidates standing in the seat of Canberra and seeking to represent the ACT in the Senate have been invited to the next meeting General Council meeting on Tuesday 3rd August. Invitations have been sent to all ALP, Liberal, Greens and Australian Democrats candidates. Other Community Council’s and community organisations in the Tuggeranong Valley have also been invited to attend the meeting.
Following introductions from each candidiate members of the public will be given an opportunity to question candidates on issues that concern them and their community. It promises to be an intersting meeting.
It will commence at 7.30pm and will be held in the upstairs function room of the Tuggeranong Southern Cross Club on the corner of Pitman and Holwell Streets in Tuggeranong. Meanwhile, the TCC assures all political candidiates and guests that there will be no Election Worm on the night.
The TCC will also host a Special Council meeting on Thursday 12th August to consider the Eastern Broadacre Study. This meeting will be addressed by ACT Planning and Land Authority Project Manager, Belinda McNeice.
The Eastern Broadacre Study covers the future development of the eastern half of the ACT from Hume in the south to Majura in the north inlcuding Symonston and the Jerrabomberra Valley. This large area has been identified as a future employment corridor with the development of light industrial, commercial, tourist and transport related activities.
The TCC believes the Eastern Broadacre Study has major implications for the Tuggeranong Valley and the Special Meeting on 12th August is an opportunity for residents to have their say on this important subject.
This meeting will also be held in the upstairs function room of the Tuggeranong Southern Cross Club commencing at 7.30pm.
The TCC always welcomes new members who wish to make a positive contribution to their community. For more information visit www.tuggcc.com.
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The Tuggeranong Community Council has taken its fight against plans for a residential development at Tralee all the way to Federal Parliament. The TCC Vice President, Col Petrie and I, had a very successful meeting recently with senior staff of the office of the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure, Regional Development and Local Government, Hon Anthony Albanese MP. The meeting was arranged at the TCC’s request by the Federal Member for Canberra, Annette Ellis MP who also participated in the discussions. We were very pleased with the hearing that we were given and encouraged by the support from our local member and the Minister’s office.
During the discussions I outlined that the TCC was opposed to the construction of homes at Tralee and under the flight-path of Canberra Airport. The TCC’s position was reaffirmed in a survey of Tuggeranong residents it had conducted in late 2009. The message from the survey was loud and clear, Tuggeranong residents are concerned that if homes are built a Tralee that it will eventually lead to the relocation of aircraft flight paths over Tuggeranong.
TCC Vice President, Col Petrie, spoke of his many years experience as a building inspector and the impact of aircraft noise in Sydney that led to an expensive sound-proofing program of homes. We suggested a way to break the impasse was to allow the land at Tralee to be developed as an extension to the Hume Industrial Estate.
Ms Ellis and the Minister’s staff supported our concerns and reaffirmed the Minister’s view, as stated in the Aviation White Paper, that housing is considered an inappropriate development near airports and especially under airport flight paths. We left the meeting encouraged by the support that Tuggeranong residents had been given by Ms Ellis and the Minister’s Office. Meanwhile the TCC will keep a watching brief on Tralee, its possible impact on Canberra Airport and Tuggeranong residents.
The Community Noticeboard, is a weekly one-stop location of all ACT Government community engagement activities.
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The Community Noticeboard, is a weekly one-stop location of all ACT Government community engagement activities.
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The Community Noticeboard, is a weekly one-stop location of all ACT Government community engagement activities.
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The Tuggeranong Community Council presented the followiing submission to the ACT Government’s Review of Word Smoke Education Programs. While the TCC supports a review it believes the ACT Government should also consider the experiences of other jurisdictions where anti wood smoke education programs have failed. The TCC believes that for future education programs to succeed, particularly in the Tuggeranong Valley, they should focus on the public health impact of wood smoke pollution.
The TCC submission has been reproduced below:
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The Community Noticeboard, is a weekly one-stop location of all ACT Government community engagement activities.
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The Community Noticeboard, is a weekly one-stop location of all ACT Government community engagement activities.
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