Without analysis, it's assumed the higher population can simply be accommodated by increasing densities in inner areas and higher densities in major centres… but is it desirable, feasible, at what cost, asks former planner MIKE QUIRK.
Canberra-based heritage architect, Duncan Marshall has returned to chair a new-look, interim ACT Heritage Council after minister Rebecca Vassarotti sacked the previous beleaguered board last year.
Hey, new normals, there's a right way and a wrong way raise your concerns with the ACT ministers. KEEPING UP THE ACT shares the kewl government guide...
"Given the massive transfer of funding from health and public housing to pay for the tram, the government’s arrogant determination to pursue light rail should be stopped in its tracks," says letter writer COLIN LYONS, of Weetangera.
A man died when his a southbound utility collided with a northbound semi-trailer in the northbound lane of the Federal Highway, Sutton, at about 1am on Saturday.
A 65-year-old Watson man, who had never held a licence, was found to be driving an unregistered and uninsured vehicle during a weekend police blitz on anti-social driving behaviour.