S66 Deakin development: comments requested by 25 May 2018

Members of the community are invited to comment on the recent proposal by developer Hindmarsh, to build 20,000sqm of self storage sheds on part of S66 Deakin, adjacent to the Red Hill Nature Reserve (reported in the Canberra Times on 1 May 2018). The Red Hill Regenerators have provided comments on the ecological assessment report which was prepared by the developer, and has emailed our response on 24 May 2018 to this development here…

Comments close on 25 May 2018

You can either send your comments on the draft response to the Regenerators, or lodge your objection online here… or you can do it by:

email: EPDcustomerservices@act.gov.au
post: Customer Services at PO Box 365 Mitchell ACT 2911.
hand deliver: EPD Customer Service Centre at 16 Challis St Dickson

In considering the application the planning authority has to consider the Lease Variation General Code which sits under the Territory Plan . Unfortunately the code doesn’t say a lot and the test of most relevance is that “the land to which the lease applies is suitable for the development or use authorised by the varied use”