Wright gets its environmental approval

…ha ha…Gungahstly…that’s as good as Thuggeranong!! I wonder what this new town centre will become…Moronglo Valley perhaps?!!

Any news on which option is to chosen for the Molonglo river? There were a number of options, do nothing, dam it @ coppins, or dam it further downstream.
How did they manage to overcome the objections regarding the wildlife down there? Esp the birds, wombats and rare amphibians.

That valley *was* a treasure, soon it will be another Gungahstly.

smeeagain said :

Has anyone been out to West Macgregor??? I would hate to see anything even more high density than that. The blocks there are mostly in the 300-400sqm range. There is no way you could have a swing set AND a trampoline and in many cases, you couldn’t even have one of them.

They are creating slums

The standard block size in West Macgregor seems to be 450m2, which is the same as in most greenfields suburbs. There are a few blocks of up to 600m2 – not only corner blocks – which is big enough for a swing set, etc. One is currently on the market for $250,000.

It’s probably wishful thinking to think that Molonglo will be any different. I’d expect it to be developed along the same lines as Harrison, Forde and Franklin. The current suburban design ethos seems to be smaller blocks but more public open space…the theory presumably being that this cuts down private water consumption by reducing the size of people’s yards.

Face it, high density means greater returns and smaller Govt infrastructure costs.

Molonglo will be 400m square blocks and high rise.

I really hope Molonglo doesn’t get the same high density treatment. My dream is to build a place out there backing onto Stromlo (or as close as possible) with a nice big house and yard. So looks like I’ll have to buy 2 or 3 blocks to make this happen (and win the lotto).

“The Molonglo Valley, which will include affordable housing, will eventually be home to about 55,000 Canberrans and will be developed to a higher density than more recently developed suburbs.”

Has anyone been out to West Macgregor??? I would hate to see anything even more high density than that. The blocks there are mostly in the 300-400sqm range. There is no way you could have a swing set AND a trampoline and in many cases, you couldn’t even have one of them.

They are creating slums

… so does that mean the blocks will be even smaller? OMG land is expensive in this town.

Yay, more shoebox sized blocks released in tiny percentiles on which even a spider would find it hard to stretch its legs.

Pandy said :

You know, I heard the same stories be said of Gungahlin and solar orientation, when those 1st blocks were released in 1990. Same-ol, same ol.

Yes, I remember hearing it before too.

Yet another greenfields suburb in this already ridiculously large city for its small population. More sprawl. Huge sprawl, everywhere but towards Hume (the most logical place to put suburbs).

Here’s a suggestion – they can build new suburbs, if they nominate a suburb to remove at the same time.