The AGM was held at 3pm Sunday 23 November 2025 at Woden Valley Uniting Church hall, Gillies St.
After the AGM Dr Roslyn Prinsley ANU presented a talk on nature-based solutions for flood mitigation: Curtin Residents 2025 NbS 23 November-v3.pdf
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Missing Middle housing reforms – CRA submission on the planning changes
The proposed changes to planning rules to encourage more development of multiple dwellings on RZ1 ordinary suburban blocks called the Missing Middle Housing reforms closed for comment on 5 August.
Here’s what the CRA had to say: Missing Middle Housing Reforms CRA submission
Light Rail is coming to Woden – the draft plans are open for comment
The draft plans for the light rail stage 2B to Woden are now visible in the project’s “Draft Environmental Impact Statement”.
This document is long. You can see a paper copy at the Woden library. If you want to browse the plans online go to https://yoursayconversations.act.gov.au/light-rail-to-woden
There is a face to face consultation with project team in the library on Thursday 14 August, 3 pm–7 pm, and another on Sunday 17 August, 11 am–2 pm at the Presbyterian Church of St Andrew.
The Woden Valley Community Council will hold an information forum at the Woden library 7pm Thursday 21 August. See http://wvcc.org.au
Members can see a long commentary opinion in the recent CRA newsletter. The big changes around Curtin are a tram stop under the Carruthers St bridge, another beside the Yarralumla Creek near Phillip Oval, and total remodelling of the big Woden roundabout at Yarra Glen-Melrose Drive-Yamba Drive. Construction is expected to start in 2029 and take 4 to 5 years.
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
Ninety-nine units development proposal May 2025
Wesley Mission has lodged a Development Application (DA) to build 99 apartments on Martin St, on the block at the corner of Carruthers St and Theodore St.
Residents have until 30 May to make comments and objections to the Government planning directorate.
We’ve prepared more information and action points here (PDF): WesleyDAhandoutFINAL .
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
CRA has an ABN
Curtin Residents Association Inc.
ABN 69 953 291 646
In acronym land – this means that the Curtin Residents Association Inc. (CRA), which is already incorporated, now has an Australian Business Number (ABN).
The number is 69 953 291 646.
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: Curtin’s Spring Fair
9:30am to 12:30pm, Saturday 12th October in the Square at Curtin Shops
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 Government’s 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.
WINTER SOLSTICE event 2pm Saturday 24 June 2023
It’s as close to the Winter Solstice as we can get on a weekend!
Winter Solstice in Curtin Square
at the shops
2pm-5pm
Saturday 24 June 2023
Hot Live Music
Family Fun Activities
Walk the labyrinth
Sausage Sizzle by Curtin Primary School P&C
Come along and have fun in the square!
A Curtin Residents Association Community Project
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