Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Ainslie Residents Association ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://ainslie.org.au/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [No commitment to renewal: Demolition of community centre](https://ainslie.org.au/no-commitment-to-renewal-demolition-of-community-centre-looms/) - The historic and now fire-damaged 91A Wakefield Gardens community centre behind the Ainslie shops will be demolished with no plans for replacement. - [Sad for day Ainslie with Indara tower drilling underway](https://ainslie.org.au/sad-for-day-ainslie-with-indara-tower-drilling-underway/) - Running rough-shod over community views and years of grasslands regeneration work, the care-less Indara company has begun work on its telco tower. - [Please join us - Ainslie telco tower alternative site inspection](https://ainslie.org.au/please-join-us-ainslie-telco-tower-alternative-site-inspection/) - Please come to a public protest and inspection of an alternative site for a 25-metre Indara telecommunications tower at 10:30 this Sunday. - [How has the Government Got it So Wrong?](https://ainslie.org.au/media-release-how-has-the-government-got-it-so-wrong/) - Vodafone and Optus telecommunications tower in Ainslie - How has the Government Got it So Wrong? - [Grasslands under threat as work starts on telecommunications tower](https://ainslie.org.au/grasslands-under-threat-as-work-starts-on-telecommunications-tower/) - Construction of a 25-metre Optus and Vodafone telecommunications tower is underway on a much-loved native grassland on Limestone Avenue in Ainslie. - [Open letter on grasslands project and telecommunications tower](https://ainslie.org.au/a-native-grassland-regeneration-project-is-under-threat-due-to-poor-planning-decisions/) - A native grassland regeneration project is under threat due to poor planning decisions - [Ainslie Football Club wants change to Territory Plan.](https://ainslie.org.au/the-ainslie-football-club-is-proposing-an-amendment-to-the-territory-plan/) - The Ainslie Football Club is proposing an amendment to the Territory Plan so that a mixed residential and commercial complex can be developed on what is now recreation land. - [Opposition to Braddon Bowls Club Development](https://ainslie.org.au/opposition-to-braddon-bowls-club-development-public-gathering-9-may/) - The ACT Government is assessing a developer application to rezone the Braddon Bowling Club site from community use to commercial and residential use. - [Have your say @ Ainslie shops pop‑ups](https://ainslie.org.au/994-2/) - The ACT Government is consulting on the best future for the disused community building at 91A Wakefield Avenue, behind the Ainslie shops. - [Call for enquiry into Ainslie Football Club rezoning](https://ainslie.org.au/e-petition-launched-to-stop-high-rise-in-ainslie/) - An e-petition has been launched calling for a public enquiry into a proposed high-rise residential and commercial development on Wakefield Street. - [All eyes on Wakefield Gardens – What can you envision here?](https://ainslie.org.au/all-eyes-on-wakefield-gardens-what-can-you-envision-here/) - A push to make Wakefield Gardens park behind the Ainslie Shops more of a connecting-community space is gaining momentum. - [E-petition for Community Building at 91A Wakefield Gardens](https://ainslie.org.au/e-petition-for-community-building-at-91a-wakefield-gardens/) - The Ainslie community has started a petition to revitalise the community building at 91A Wakefield Gardens. - [Join the discussion - NCCC Meeting 21 May 2025](https://ainslie.org.au/nccc-meeting-21-may-2025/) - How to get more public housing and community facilities for local residents – Speakers Professor Chris Wallace, Uni of Canberra and Kurrajong MLA Elizabeth Lee MLA. - [Grassy woodland to be denigrated](https://ainslie.org.au/volcanic-grassy-woodlands-threat/) - Governments need to demonstrate commitment to protecting a grassy woodland being rehabilitated by Ainslie Volcanic Weeders in Ainslie. - [No to a very visible telecommunications tower](https://ainslie.org.au/ainslie-neighbours-and-interested-parties/) - Residents are concerned about a 28-metre high Indara Digital Infrastructure for OPTUS/Vodaphone tower being erected on the corner of Quick Street and Limestone Avenue. - [New location for Anslie Tower](https://ainslie.org.au/anslie-tower/) - There are better locations but the ACT Planning and Land Authority has approved the construction of an ugly telco tower on the corner of Limestone Avenue and Quick Street. - [ACAT unable to review phone tower decision](https://ainslie.org.au/ainslie-volcanic-da-cannot-be-reviewed-by-acat/) - Legal advice says ACAT cannot review a decision to place a telecommunications tower on open space on the corner of Quick Street and Limestone Avenue. - [Developers want high density in Ainslie](https://ainslie.org.au/stop-developers-bringing-high-density-to-ainslie/) - Developers have applied to rezone land around Ainslie Football Club on Wakefield Avenue so they can build high density housing and commercial complexes there. - [Ainslie residents oppose local park rezoning](https://citynews.com.au/2020/ainslie-residents-oppose-local-park-rezoning/#new_tab) - [Ainslie residents upset at supported accommodation development plans for park](https://the-riotact.com/ainslie-residents-upset-at-development-plans-for-park/401901#new_tab) - [Revealed: the trees of Ainslie don’t cast shadows!](https://citynews.com.au/2022/revealed-the-trees-of-ainslie-dont-cast-shadows/#new_tab) - ['Selling out': Ainslie residents oppose YWCA accommodation proposal](https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7129905/selling-out-ainslie-residents-oppose-ywca-accommodation-proposal/#new_tab) - [Elder claims Mt Ainslie site on Limestone Avenue has indigenous significance](https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7567907/cultural-vandalism-bulldozers-move-in-on-mt-ainslie-site/#new_tab) - [Sherbrooke street active travel consultation](https://ainslie.org.au/sherbrooke-street-active-travel-consultation/) - Sherbrooke Street in Ainslie is to become an ‘active travel street’ as part of Canberra’s City Cycleway. - [Call for public scrutiny of Ainslie rezoning](https://ainslie.org.au/call-for-public-scrutiny-of-ainslie-rezoning/) - Calls for the ACT Legislative Assembly to scrutinise a rezoning proposal of sport and recreation land at the Ainslie Football Club site. - [Early History of Ainslie](https://ainslie.org.au/early-history-of-ainslie/) - Ainslie was named after James Ainslie who was the first overseer of Duntroon Station. He was wounded at the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and came to Australia shortly afterwards. In 1825 Ainslie was employed by Robert Campbell to take a mob of seven hundred sheep southwards from Bathurst to look for suitable grazing land. - [Life in Ainslie - May 22](https://ainslie.org.au/life-in-ainslie/) - Like much of the Inner North, Ainslie is looking magnificent at the moment with its autumn colours. Taking the dog for a walk up Tyson Street I heard the sound of a cork being twisted out of a wine bottle and there in the gum trees were two pairs of gang-gangs. So lucky to have - [Mount Ainslie](https://ainslie.org.au/mount-ainslie/) - I grew up in Ainslie from about five years old and so the classic, old-volcano, Mount Fuji-type shape of Mount Ainslie has always been a big part of life. As children we had the comfort of the aircraft signal light on top of Mount Ainslie slowly flashing red and green outside our bedroom windows and - [Visiting gang gangs](https://ainslie.org.au/visiting-gang-gangs/) - I returned to Canberra in 2004 after many years travelling the world. It took a while to settle back into this city’s strange ways. When the gang gangs arrived heralding a turn in the weather, I finally felt back at home. They love eating the nuts from my liquid amber tree and delicately hold the - [Louise Lyon](https://ainslie.org.au/louise-lyon/) - My grandparents moved to Ainslie in 1939 where they lived for almost 50 years until they passed away. My mother, Enid Wheeler (nee Guard) spent her teenage years in Ainslie and returned in 1961 with my father and their four children. Her story is in the book. I grew up in Ainslie and have lived - [Eleanor Gilbert](https://ainslie.org.au/eleanor-gilbert/) - Eleanor Gilbert, BSc Hons (1950- ) filmmaker with an extensive research and ecological background. Her focus is to tell the stories, locate and document the pathways, which are leading out of the maze of oppression and the belly of the Australian genocide to the reinstated sovereignty for First Nations and Peoples. Her recent works include: - [Early Access: Register now to attend new training in 2024](https://ainslie.org.au/early-access-register-now-to-attend-new-training-in-2024/) - The Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate (EPSDD) is pleased to advise registrations are now open to attend a new set of training sessions on the ACT planning system. Training will start on 6 February 2024 and run to May 2024. New training will help you build the practical skills you need to use and - [Early Childhood Education at 11 Rutherford Crescent, Ainslie, ACT](https://ainslie.org.au/early-childhood-education-at-11-rutherford-crescent-ainslie-act/) - As a mother of a 'just turned' 4-year-old who lives near Rutherford Crescent, Ainslie (Block 1, Section 87) the site/building that was originally designed into the corner of Bill Pye Park as a pre-school (like Baker Gardens and others) and frequents it weekly if not more... I can attest to the fact that preschool and - [ACT Tree Huggers - Save a Tree](https://ainslie.org.au/act-tree-huggers-save-a-tree/) - ‘Canberra’s urban forest is a key part of what makes our city the most liveable in Australia. The urban forest, made up of all trees, vegetation and systems that support them, is part of our identity as the bush capital: a city within a landscape.’ Chris Steele, Minister for Transport and City Services, Urban Forest - [YMCA Community Facility](https://ainslie.org.au/ymca-community-facility/) - History of the YMCA's Management of the Community Facility at 11 Rutherford Crescent, Ainslie, ACT The existing building at 11 Rutherford Cres, Ainslie was established in the 1940s in a manner consistent with the Garden City design ethos expressed across Ainslie. The building was a controversial response to an identified need for essential support to - [Environmental Impacts at 11 Rutherford Crescent, Ainslie, ACT](https://ainslie.org.au/environmental-impacts-at-11-rutherford-crescent-ainslie-act/) - The CURRENT building should be considered for heritage listing - architecture and significant Ainslie building from early 1900s There are currently 19 trees on the block, of which, 16 are proposed to be removed and one other pruned by half therefore removing the bird habitat provided by the tallest tree; 7 of these trees to - [The Big Sell Off](https://ainslie.org.au/the-big-sell-off/) - Activity in Bill Pye Park over the last couple of weeks shows that the demolition of the community facility is imminent. So if you want to see this mid-century pre-school designed to nestle into Bill Pye Park for the last time you better hurry. - [An Update on Early Childhood Education](https://ainslie.org.au/an-update-on-early-childhood-education/) - Nicholas Stuart brings light back to what I find extremely important and raising the critical issue that I find is clouding the conversation around the Rutherford Crescent, Ainslie (Block 1, Section 87) site. "What's slipping between the desirability of allowing our youngest children to flourish and thrive by the age of five isn't that we ## Pages - [](https://ainslie.org.au/) - Previous Slide Next Slide No commitment to renewal: Demolition of community centre 11 August 2026The historic and now fire-damaged 91A Wakefield Gardens community centre behind the Ainslie shops will be demolished with no plans for replacement. Continue reading .... 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