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Gunsmoke Is Available Online, and Printed Copies Are President: Ewan Brown - President@Gcc.Asn.Au Available Through Key Shopping Centres Edition 130 February 2014 Designed by JM Publishing CraCE CENtral shoppiNg prECiNCt Now opEN ISSUES LIST A Home for the Homeless Next meeting: Wednesday 12 February 7.30pm - Gungahlin Library Gungahlin Community Council Business Breakfast Enhancing Business Opportunities in Gungahlin Katy Gallagher Andrew Blyth Chief Minister CEO ACT and Region Australian Capital Territory Chamber of Commerce and Industry Gungahlin is a thriving satellite region of the Come along to hear what may be planned or ACT with one of the fastest growth rates in the feasible. Help start a process where your country. The population is expected to reach views can be heard! over 60,000 as planned suburban developments reach completion. This level of The Gungahlin Community Council (GCC) is a population needs to be serviced by adequate voluntary, community-based association amenties, infrastructure and a greater diversity operating in the Gungahlin district of the ACT. of business to satisfy a self-sustaining Our objective is to preserve and improve the community. social, cultural, economic and environmental well-being of the Gungahlin community. Ideally significant business development opportunities will become available. Prize Draw The GCC wants to see a process where the Business Diagnostic Audit and Report future needs of the growing community are from Tony Ozanne met through adequate planning. The views of Business Coaching Canberra existing businesses and prospective businesses Valued at $2500 are vital to this process. For more information rsVp by Friday 14 February - limited spaces - via website www.gcc.asn.au, or call Ewan Brown on 0418 486 471 or email [email protected] GunSmoke is available online, and printed copies are President: Ewan Brown - [email protected] available through key shopping centres. To subscribe to the Vice President: Peter Elford - 0401 890 387 online edition visit www.gcc.asn.au and click on the “Sign [email protected] Up For Our Newsletter” button at the bottom of the page. To advertise your business or organisation in GunSmoke, please Secretary: Tony Ozanne - [email protected] visit our website. RSVP Friday 14 February Treasurer: Brad Kane - [email protected] Business Breakfast Forum Disclaimer: Web Administrator: Dave Bockett - 0405 328 764 GunSmoke is published to allowPO BOX residents 260, to GUNGAHLIN, keep in touch ACT [email protected] with their local community. The views expressed in Gunsmoke Public Officer: Kevin Cox - [email protected] do not necessarily representEmail: the opinion [email protected] of the editor, or 2 i gungahlinmembers Community of the Gungahlin CouncilEnquiries: Community - Newsletter Councilcall Edition Ewan Inc.130 BrownJanuary on2014 0418GCC 486 Committee: 471 James Milligan, Meegan Fitzharris, Michael Norfor, Gillian Yeend i From the President Ewan Brown Priority Target: Keep Gungahlin residents aware Gungahlin residents. (Key stakeholders need to of developments in their region. be convinced of the value of locating or living in Gungahlin in order to engage in development In view of the anticipated substantial growth of and to attract new staff!) Gungahlin over coming years with the settlement of new suburbs including Casey, Kenny, Bonner, Traffic problems feature prominently in our top Throsby and Moncrief there is a need for priority issues. Recent statistics show Gungahlin significant planning consultation on the provision having 4 out of the top 7 accident spots in and timely development of facilities for the area to Canberra. Two of these are covered in our accommodate the requirements of a population urgent Budget funding requests. likely to exceed 60,000 residents. We have added a new component to our Issues Transport issues (in and out) are of critical List – the need for all major roads into Gungahlin importance and the usual approach for ‘catch- being dual carriageways within 5 years! The up’ or remedial developments will not offer updated list is featured on the GCC website satisfactory solutions in the short-to-medium and residents are encouraged to comment on term. the items covered and to advise other concerns they may have. CURRENT ISSUES 1. GCC wants a review/development of a new I am developing a scorecard of amenities, Master Plan for the Town Centre to reflect the facilities and services that Gungahlin residents needs of the rapidly growing population in the DO NOT have to leave the district for: area. A previous Plan (2008), following a small • Supermarkets community response, sought to retain a ‘quiet • Library village’ type atmosphere for the Town Centre. • Health Centre • Gyms Significant population growth and the strong • Range of medical and dental services likelihood of Light Rail terminating in Gungahlin • Clubs now strongly suggest that a review should be • Most open field sporting facilities undertaken to ascertain current community • Medicare and Centrelink attitudes. • Community services • Hardware store GCC proposes that another community survey/ • Good schools consultation process be undertaken to seek • Child care input from residents, visitors and workers. • Aged persons facilities More facilities and amenities have been or are being provided in the region thus contributing Coming soon or less soon to residents’ expectations that even more • Swimming pool development would be beneficial to avoid having • Oval to travel out of the region. • Cinemas • Government office block with local Focus needs to be placed on significant diverse employment commercial development to provide more • Government Shopfront employment and shopping opportunities for • Another hardware store continued > gungahlin Community Council - Newsletter Edition 130 January 2014 i 3 Still needed? to strengthen the mutually beneficial arrangement GCC expects our coming survey will considerably between the two bodies that we initiated last year. broaden this list. We will be holding our first business breakfast in Committee Update late February to seek to get local businesses more Our longstanding web Administrator (Dave involved in broader local issues. Bockett) has moved with his family to Perth and will continue to operate Cornerstone Web Gunsmoke will be published two monthly (February, Design from there. One of our latest committee April, June, August, October and December) in members, Prasad Tipirneni, has agreed to take 2014. Monthly meetings will be held from February on this role. We also welcome Mark Scarborough, to November. There will be no GCC public proprietor of My Gungahlin, to the committee meetings in January or December. It will also be a cashless service, meaning payments will need to be made by debit or credit FROM THE card. While some people might find this very different, what’s clear is that most people these POLLIES days prefer cashless transactions using electronic shane rattenbury Mla payment methods over cash and cheques. It also ACT Greens means that transactions are processed more quickly and waiting times will be reduced. Gungahlin is the perfect place to roll out this Gungahlin will see a new style of Canberra new style of shopfront, and for those who still Connect shopfront that will adopt new technologies prefer to make payments by cash or cheque, you and improve service delivery when it opens next can still do this at the nearby Australia Post outlet year. in the Gungahlin Town Centre, or other shopfronts A government shopfront in Gungahlin was around Canberra. brought forward by the ACT Greens through the TAMS undertook research to find out if this 2008 Parliamentary Agreement, and I’m really new model of service delivery would work for the pleased to see that it will come to fruition early in residents of Gungahlin and to make sure that it 2015. wouldn’t adversely affect disadvantaged groups in The new shopfront will be located on the ground the community. floor of the new government office block and This new Canberra Connect shopfront will feature an open plan layout without barriers will provide an opportunity to bring the ACT between staff and customers, enabling higher Government in line with service delivery trends quality interactions between staff and customers. towards open plan, cashless environments. Specialising in quality 62606260 14361436 Roof Trusses Wall Frames Floor Trusses 4HyBeami gungahlin CommunityHySpan Council - NewsletterFlooring Edition 130 January 2014Attic Ladders 52 Sheppard St Hume ACT, 2620. [email protected] FROM THE FROM THE POLLIES POLLIES Katy gallagher Mla Jeremy hanson Mla Chief Minister Leader of the opposition As 2014 gets into full swing it’s shaping up Gungahlin is a rapidly growing and as another year of growth and change for increasingly important hub for the Canberra Gungahlin. Families continue to be attracted community. by the modern homes, new infrastructure and increasingly by the rich sense of community After more than a decade of evolution and which has emerged. entrenchment, now is the time for Canberrans living in and around our northernmost Although Canberra’s youngest town centre, town centre to really have their say on how Gungahlin has developed some of the more to improve what is already a vibrant and dynamic and popular social networks in the constantly changing part of the ACT. Territory. This is a testament to the enthusiasm of residents eager to build a strong community and also to valuable forums such as the More people will continue to flock to the Gungahlin Community Council. Gungahlin region in years to come and I’m keen to hear your ideas on how to manage As the ACT Government we place great value and develop the area so it can deal with an on the collective voices of our communities increase in population while also reaping and I look forward to working with the council the full benefits of having more people in the throughout the year – starting with February’s region. Is it all about road duplication or other business breakfast. transport options? Does Gungahlin need more open spaces like parks and reserves for Of course, the growth in Gungahlin brings a families to enjoy? Is the idea of both working continuing demand for investments in roads, and living in Gungahlin an attractive one? schools and other infrastructure.
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