CRA submission on Wesley Affordable and Supported Housing DA May 2025

Here’s our submission to the ACT government planning directorate on the proposed development of 99 units on the block at Martin St/Theodore St/Carruthers St.
REPRESENTATION CRA for DA 202543965 (PDF, 2 Mbyte)

We talked to many local residents and considered the other submissions we knew about to make this a more representative representation (!)
Our key issues are

1  Parking: not nearly enough car parking spaces
2  Use of public land along Martin Street (including the proposal to use public land for on street parking)
3  Pathways, active travel, and pedestrian safety (including internal pathways leading to road crossings)
4  Overshadowing: Shadow diagrams are missing (within the block and onto nearby properties)

and others, including the need for bicycle storage

Autumn Fair 2025 – stallholder applications

The Curtin Autumn Fair is on again!

Saturday 3 May in Curtin square at the shops, from 10am to 2 pm

Yes it’s the same day as the election – when you’re out and about come to the square and find something better!

Stalls selling handcrafts, jams, plants, food, locally made.

Live music.

Do you want to have a table? click here for a simple application form and more information

Curtin Autumn Fair Stallhldr application-fillable 3May25

Open the form in Adobe Acrobat and edit it by typing into the fields. Save it in a file with your name (so we know who’s applying) and email as an attachment to

info@curtinresidents.asn.au

or print the form, fill it in, scan or take a photo, and send it by email

or post it to the PO Box:
PO Box 261, Curtin, ACT 2605

 

 

 

Pots to Plots Spring Fair 2024

Curtin Pots to Plots Spring fair is on the morning of Saturday 12 October 2024
in Curtin Square.

Pots-to-Plots: Curtins Spring Fair 

9:30am to 12:30pm, Saturday 12th October in the Square at Curtin Shops

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Pots to Plots: Curtin’s Spring Fair celebrates Spring, Floriade and gardens and promotes plants, gardening and the importance of green spaces and plants in our urban environment.

 There will be a mix of sales and information stalls at the Fair. Keen gardeners will be able to purchase quality native plants from Cool Country Natives and very local plants from the Curtin Trees and Gardens Group. You will also be able to purchase fruits of the garden such as jams and chutney from local Curtin makers.

There are many regeneration projects happening in our parks and along Curtin Ridge. Come and find out about them: there may be one close to where you live. Learn how to use NatureMapr to report sightings of plants and animals. Learn about Native bees and make a bee hotel. Get the kids to decorate a pot and plant a seed.

There will be live music so if you wish come for the music and good cheer.

It’s the final Saturday of Floriade. The flowers at Curtin shops were planted by the Curtin Trees and Garden Group and are part of the ACT Governments Floriade Community.

Pots to Plots is a collaboration between the Curtin Residents Association and the Curtin Trees and Gardens Group and is supported by a grant from the ACT Government.

Tables in the Square 2023 – Saturday 13 May

We are having a mini-fair this Autumn, named Tables in the Square.
There will be just a few tables of things to buy, be informed, exchange.

Saturday 13 May  –  10am-2pm – Curtin Square

with a free sausage sizzle by Woden Valley Community Council

There are tables with

  • jam for sale
  • books for sale, to swap, to donate
  • plants and garden stuff
  • cakes
  • craft
  • residents association information
  • local environment information

 

Active Travel Plan – CRA comments August 2022

The ACT Government published its proposed Active Travel Plan for comments in August 2022.

The CRA made a three page submission including the points outlined in our August newsletter.
Link here for our Active Travel Plan submission, including the relevant map of linkages and pathways in the Curtin Group Centre Master Plan.
The key points in our submission are:

The intent of the ACT Government’s Draft Active Travel Plan—More Canberrans walking and cycling more often to improve quality of life—is welcome. However, the Plan focuses far too much on areas close to shops and schools for walking and on cycling between Group and Town Centres.

The objective of More Canberrans walking and cycling more often will only be realised if the focus of this Plan is a person’s whole journey, from home to destination, and not just those parts of that journey that are covered by the current Draft.

Recreational walking and cycling are also important for realising the objective as are trips  to the shops and other local services; however, they are neglected in this Draft Plan. The measures of success on page 10 of the Draft Plan are narrowly focused on work-related travel: they must be expanded to include recreational walking and cycling, and trips to the shops and other local services.

Discussion of e-mobility technologies in the Draft Plan is too near-term. In the relatively near-term (roughly the next five years) more people may prefer to use a small electric vehicle (a three-wheeler, like those used for postal delivery) rather than a car for short local trips but would not use an e-scooter or electric-boosted bicycle. These small electric vehicles would make a journey easier than walking and give some shelter from the weather for local shopping and other visits. They should be included in the ACT’s Active Travel Plan.

Improving infrastructure for walking, cycling and e-mobility within Curtin is a prerequisite if more Curtin residents are to walk, cycle and use e-mobility devices more often to improve their quality of life. This extends to the surrounding district: connections with adjoining suburbs and the nearby Town Centre.

 

Recent Submissions on DAs and Policy: Statesman Hotel and tree canopy

The Curtin Residents Association made a submission to ACT government concerning the DA for the Statesman Hotel 20 July 2022.

The submission is linked here FinalRepnStatesmanDA202240293 (PDF)

We wrote to Minister Gentleman April 2022 with concern that DV369 the Draft Variation to the territory plan to ensure better tree canopy cover had been eviscerated – and there is no sign of the fix that he promised.  The letter is linked here DV369 CRA April2022-final (PDF)