Second Woolies for Dickson as construction starts on DKSN Stage 2

Nada Stanković I’d love an Aldi

Isabelle Vu whattt. Why would they waste that space. Put restaurants or something.

Big parking over here influencing developments

David Conway must be- no one is doing anything to address the problems and ugliness of Woolies

George Watling All those votes for the Greens wasted. As if they were going to stop this madness

The “madness” of being able to live close to your work, shops and cafes etc… Yeah, much better clearing more land and having people commute long distances 🤷

Brent Hutch You can do all that living in houses and townhouses in the suburbs around one of Canberra’s five existing town centers. You don’t have to have these super high density developments to make a city liveable. I have lived in suburbs around 4 out of 5 of these town centers and I’ve never had more than a 15 to 25 minutes commute to work and I have quite often lived and worked on opposite sides of Canberra.

You only get high levels of congestion and long commute times when government planning allows a high concentration of enterprises in a central local/CBD. Canberra’s decentralized multi town centers model was developed and implemented to avoid these problems.

Regarding clearing more land. The hyper densification of the inner north won’t save any land from clearing. The ACT Labor/Green’s government have already committed to filling the whole of the Molongolo valley with micro-block high density developments. If the government promised to set aside 30 – 40% of the valley as nature reserves and wildlife corridors then I would be more likely to support the mass warehousing of people in apartments around Dickson and other town centers but that not what’s happening. The government has approved the clearing of the whole valley and still what to pack another 80,000 new homes into existing suburbs. It not for our or natures benefit they are doing that. It to extend the rate payer base and keep the construction industry alive even through population growth is low and demand for new multi-unit dwellings are dropping.

George Watling
1. Sure, you can live in and around town centres in houses and townhouses. Do you not agree though, that you will require more land to fit the same number of people in? If you fit more people in, close to the amenity they seek, do you not agree that this reduces their need to commute.

2. You’re not the only person who has lived in the suburbs and commuted to work. In previous existences, my commute was 15 minutes, sometimes it was 40minutes. Nothing quite like sitting there on the GDE looking at those single occupant vehicles bumper to bumper. My current walk to work is 8minutes. I know what I prefer. But you know the best thing, other people benefit too… I’ve removed a vehicle they would be competing for road and car parking space.

3. The “hyper densification won’t save any land”… Makes zero sense. See point 1. If the people aren’t being housed in “super dense” apartments, there would be increased demand on land which will come from further out. Increased higher density, slows this. It also means that people who don’t want to live in a house out in the burbs, are not competing with someone who does.

4. The thing they are building in Dickson is like 6 stories… This is not “super high density”. It is appropriate development for its location. If people did not want to live in these things, they wouldn’t be built. Developers are the opposite of generous and are money motivated… This requires sales.

5. “Canberra’s decentralised multi town centres”… You mean the things dominated by inward focused concrete shopping malls. Leading to ghost towns at night time. Actually getting people to live in town centres, is a good thing and is where density belongs.

6. Extending the rate base and employing people… Seems smart.