MEDIA RELEASE: Call on Defence Housing Australia to rethink Lawson North development
17th August 2020 MEDIA RELEASE Call on Defence Housing Australia to rethink Lawson North development Over a hundred conservation groups, scientists, land managers and volunteers from across Canberra and the region have called on Defence Housing Australia to rethink...
Supporter Survey 2020
The survey has closed. Sign up to our mailing list to stay updated on our work. It’s been a difficult summer for so many of our supporters in the way of fires or fighting fires, and Canberrans living under unhealthy bushfire smoke. Climate change impacts have...
MEDIA RELEASE: Community support for Coombs Peninsula to be protected
MEDIA RELEASE: The Conservation Council has welcomed a motion which passed the ACT Legislative Assembly yesterday and called on the ACT Government to put aside the Coombs Peninsula for environmental and recreational purposes, and remove it from the land release...
Media release: Community petition shows support for active travel
26 November 2019 MEDIA RELEASE A community petition calling on the ACT Government to implement key measures that will support viable active travel options for Canberrans to walk, cycle and use public transport, was tabled in the ACT Legislative Assembly today. The...
ACT Budget 2020/21 Submission
In May 2019, the ACT Legislative Assembly declared a state of climate emergency noting that “globally, nationally and locally, human induced climate change is contributing to record breaking temperatures, extreme weather events, and a range of negative social,...
Media release: Conservation Council calls on ACT Government to stop roll out of gas to new suburbs
The Conservation Council ACT Region has called on the ACT Government to stop the roll out of gas infrastructure to new suburbs to ensure policy consistency as the ACT aims for net zero emission by 2045.
Moving Canberra – Integrated Transport Strategy
The Government’s Integrated Transport Strategy had lots of great ideas, but lacked the objectives and targets it needed to set out a clear pathway to improve public and active transport.
Concerns over Molonglo Valley development
The Conservation Council has engaged actively in the planning processes concerning the urban development of the Molonglo Valley (viz East Molonglo and Central Molonglo) over a number of years. However, we are increasingly dismayed and alarmed over the lack of proper balance between conservation and development, in what appears to be ad hoc planning processes rather than an overall, […]
16 storey hotel proposal for Garema Place needs change
The Conservation Council has called on the Government not to approve a development proposal for a sixteen storey hotel comprising of a commercial hotel development containing 233 hotel suites on Garema Place in the city centre, because it does not adequately demonstrate effective integration of social, economic and environmental considerations. The Conservation Council supports higher […]