Has the Bush Capital had a Brazilian?

It’s not only visually unappealing but as we’ve seen recently with the heavy rain fall, it’s a natural disaster waiting to happen. No trees to slow the heavy winds, no soil cover to slow floodwaters and of course massive temperature rises from all that concrete. It’s ugliness with dire consequences.

IMO Lack of awareness about weeds and weed trees is a bigger threat. Garden escapees are spreading via birds and wind dispersal across whole suburbs and into bushland .

There is a government house in our (non-native oak-lined) leafy CBD street which has recently had its tenants moved on and is now being sold off by the government … the auction is being held on a Thursday in working hours. I’ve no doubt this is to favour ‘developers’ who will face little competition and build some execrable dual-occupancy on the site. The street cannot cope already with the influx of cars being parked along it – commuters with their bikes attached, they park, hop onto their bikes or simply walk away. Too bad if a resident actually has a visitor; there’s nowhere left to park!

The Bush Capital has really changed sinc self government, it was once a pretty Capital,we r loosing this greenery and tree lined streets for what is to become our future slums, it’s being destroyed by our greedy government,who just want money from Taxes.

There used to be trees there – what happened to them? Driving along the Barton hwy the Gungahlin suburbs look appalling! I can only think of the song “little boxes”.

Tomorrows slum here today .the experts warned them years ago about these same concerns which they choose to ignore

Unfortunately, with the demise of the NCDC, our town planners moved away from the Radburn influenced suburb design. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-24/a-look-at-radburn-town-planning-in-canberra/5904372

Landscape and infrastructure planning in Canberra – that stopped when self-Government started.

Yes. More trees wanted 🙁

Maybe if the ACT Gov really looked at the cost of what they are creating, they would look for alternatives, just the health costs from the heat will be enormous! Livability will drop. Real estate is a finite resource in the ACT. Wake up. Develop environmentally and strategically and people will want to live in Canb and prices on existing properties will rise. Stop giving away land to developers and start businesses which will benefit the community and provide income. E.g carpark, e.g tours through namadgi.

New areas have indeed had a Brazilian . They get a look of Slum after awhile 😩 very sad for the Old Bush Capital .

Tiny blocks equals more houses along with the atrocious apartment block designs, which at the end of the day equals more rates to pay off the light junk

Planning for the mid and long term future. It’s not wise to be short sighted when planning…
Canberra is becoming more populous. This is increasing. What we don’t want to increase are house and apartment prices due to undersupply. They are already expensive enough in this city of over 400,000 people…
PS: Plant more trees 🌞🌴🌲 🌳

Well have a looksie at this perspective:
https://www.facebook.com/CanberraProgressives/posts/550677765297610

Bloody oath. Stop these tiny roads and no parking.

It’s ridiculous. Streets are so narrow that people have to park on both sides of the street, blocking traffic and obscuring visibility. Someone’s going to get killed

For gods sake, yes! Canberra boasts some of the most desperately ugly, soon-to-be-slum estates that I have ever seen. It seems that the ACT is the land where the greedy developer reigns supreme.

Yes, because the government has allowed greedy developers to design suburbs where the streets are so narrow the rubbish trucks have difficulty collecting the waste. For a ‘planned’ city, it’s lost the plot!!