An e-petition has been launched calling on the ACT Legislative Assembly to hold a public enquiry into a rezoning proposal for the Ainslie Football Club site to allow for high-rise and commercial development.
The petition can be viewed and signed by any Canberra resident at ACT Legislative Assembly’s e-petitions and must be signed by 5 May 2025.
Ainslie resident, Barbara Livesey is the principal petitioner and ACT Greens leader and MLA, Shane Rattenbury, has stepped up to sponsor the petition.
It calls for the Legislative Assembly’s Standing Committee on Environment, Planning, Transport and City Services to hold a full public inquiry, including public hearings, into the Ainslie Football Club’s proposal for the rezoning of sporting and recreational land to allow for high-rise development in a quiet corner of Ainslie.
Many residents are concerned that this major rezoning proposal will:
- rezone land provided and zoned for community sporting and recreational use to high-density residential and commercial use
- set a precedent across the ACT allowing for the construction of high-density residential developments of up to 7 storeys (21.5 metres) and commercial development (no height limit) immediately adjacent to low-density residential development.
Over 80 per cent of the 146 submissions to a recent ACT Planning Authority consultation on this proposal opposed the rezoning specifically for high-density and raised a broad range of concerns that have not yet been adequately considered.
Petitioning is one way ACT residents can make formal requests direct to our parliament – the ACT Legislative Assembly – with a minimum of 500 signatures required.
Go to ACT Legislative Assembly’s e-petitions to view and sign the petition.
The proposed site is at the corner of Wakefield and Angus Streets and Limestone Avenue, Ainslie.
See more information and view public submissions on the Ainslie Football Club proposal.
Thank you for organising this petition. My wife and I have both signed.
You need to realise, however, that Ainslie is not alone. There is a single cause for development proposals like this being pushed through inner suburbs across Australia.
That cause is immigration and the consequences you and I are feeling is what is meant by “unsustainable levels of immigration”.
The Ainslie Residents’ Association needs to put pressure on Alicia Payne MHR to protect our community – and the many communities like ours – to cut immigration. Immigration drives up the demand for properties and makes the proposed development in our suburb profitable.