14 hectares of caravan park at EPIC

What’s the big deal? Gunghalin is already a cluster of tightly crammed boxes, its just that the boxes in this caravan park will be a fraction of the cost and closer to the city… actually on second thought I can see why Gunghalin residents might be a bit sore about that.

I’m not sure that it’s a recent phenomenon. i remember people living in caravan parks permanently (and some by choice) back in the 70s in Queensland, NSW and Victoria.

If there were more caravan parks in the ACT there would be less of an affordable housing and rentals issue.

poetix said :

Dougal said :

JessP said :

Lets hope the site is for short term accommodation only!

Um, why do you care? Are you hoping that there will be vacancies when you ‘holiday’ there, or do you just have something against people who choose to live in a/can’t afford anything else but a caravan park?

Well said Dougal.

It would be truly awful if poor people could afford to live so near to shops, bus-routes and the Farmers Markets. They might steal all the organic vegetables destined for the middle classes.

Ah… I care because a caravan park is not a long term solution for people in housing stress! Affordable housing is the solution. Caravan parks over recent years have been seen as a easy way out….they enable governments to cross a few more people off their lists and become a bandaid solution (You know, a bit like building major road infrastructure with single lanes).

Lets hope this is a part of a bigger plan.

Dougal said :

JessP said :

Lets hope the site is for short term accommodation only!

Um, why do you care? Are you hoping that there will be vacancies when you ‘holiday’ there, or do you just have something against people who choose to live in a/can’t afford anything else but a caravan park?

Well said Dougal.

It would be truly awful if poor people could afford to live so near to shops, bus-routes and the Farmers Markets. They might steal all the organic vegetables destined for the middle classes.

wildturkeycanoe said :

Nice that the government can find 14 hectares for caravans, only because they will make money. If the 14 hectares was to house the homeless or those who can’t afford Canberra’s high rents it’d be a different story, wouldn’t it! I bet a powered site at this location won’t be any cheaper than the hotel just up the road.

I understand that this is precisely why this was released i.e. to house those people who cannot get or afford tourist accommodation high rents.

Just because it’s tourist accommodation doesn’t make it any less valid.

Let’s hope common sense prevails (haha) just imagine the residents there (permanent or not) suddenly voicing concerns about noise from events at EPIC or the “invasion” of hoards of people for events there.
just sayin

Nice that the government can find 14 hectares for caravans, only because they will make money. If the 14 hectares was to house the homeless or those who can’t afford Canberra’s high rents it’d be a different story, wouldn’t it! I bet a powered site at this location won’t be any cheaper than the hotel just up the road.

JessP said :

Lets hope the site is for short term accommodation only!

Um, why do you care? Are you hoping that there will be vacancies when you ‘holiday’ there, or do you just have something against people who choose to live in a/can’t afford anything else but a caravan park?

Lets hope the site is for short term accommodation only!

p1 said :

I hope the facilities are summernatsproof.

It should corral them nicely anyway.