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The following are 3 letters regarding the replacement of Lombardy poplars at the National Library of Australia (NLA) forecourt.

The following are 3 letters from Jack Kershaw regarding Canberra’s West Basin Development.

For the ACT Greens to accept any residential development of the West Basin precinct, there are a series of preconditions that need to be met. These include: 1. Any development needs to protect and enhance the public domain. Public access to the Lake and surrounds must be maintained in a manner that promotes a wide…

Please find the document as follows which includes: Letter from ACT Liberals Mark Parton MLA and same letter from Elizabeth Lee MLA 2  Flyer from Candice Burch MLA, ACT Liberals 3  Flyer from Bruce Paine, Independent 4  Flyer from Alvin Hopper, CAP Candidate. View PDF Document

The Barr Government’s Place Plan for West Basin released today in the Canberra Times does not state how many apartments or the height of the buildings. It does not show or explain any access across Parkes Way or access from Commonwealth Avenue. Critically, the new plan by consultants does not show how much of our…

This brochure is a call to Action. Please read it and help save our lake. Download PDF brochure

The Guardians have lodged a detailed submission expressing our serious concerns about the works approval application for infilling 2.8 hectares of the lake to build a 500 m promenade. A copy of our submission will be made available on our website for the information of Guardians and interested members of the public.

In explaining why i believe so strongly that commonwealth avenue bridge should be maintained for a very long time as an irreplaceable heritage structure, I shall describe the design and construction of the two parallel bridges that make up the commonwealth avenue bridge. Download this articles as a PDF here The bridges were designed by…

In this paper Lake Burley Griffin Guardians (the Guardians) provides an analysis of — Attachment 1 of the tender 57746.300 CRA, for a spatial master plan and urban design framework for West Basin, issued by the ACT Government on 14 March 2019. Read the full article here

Resolutions from a public meeting on Planning in the ACT, Albert Hall, 10 September 2018, following on from “Canberra Conversations” seminar. Read Media Release

Around 450 citizens demonstrated concern with the state of planning in the nation’s  capital at Albert Hall on Monday 10 September. Not only was there a large crowd present, but also several executives of national heritage organisations representing a combined membership of over 3500. Read Media Release

This event: Monday 10 September 2018 at 6:00pm – 8.00pmAlbert Hall, 100 Commonwealth Ave, Yarralumla ACT 2601. Catering of snacks available at 5.30pm More information is at: https://www.governanceinstitute.edu.au/events/canberra-conversation-lecture-series/557/the-impact-of-planning-decisions-on-canberras-heritage-values-and-urban-form. Our wonderful lake is set to be butchered by the West Basin development. Note it is no longer City to the Lake. It appears the connecting component to the…

Lake Burley Griffin Guardians were disgusted with a letter from Chief Minister Andrew Barr to Professor Toshiyuki Kono President of International ICOMOS in response to the ICOMOS Resolution late last year. A copy of the letter from Andrew Barr follows along with a letter from the Guardians to Andrew Barr challenging his claim.

ICOMOS, the International Council on Monuments and Sites – a unique, non-governmental, not-for-profit international organisation, committed to furthering the conservation, protection, use and enhancement of the world’s cultural heritage – held it’s 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium in Delhi (India), December 2017. During this event, which gathered over 1000 participants and guests from 113…

The Lake Burley Griffin Guardians are delighted that the Federal government has commenced reviewing our submission for emergency heritage listings of Lake Burley Griffin and its Lakeshore Landscape. “We thank the Minister for the Environment and Energy, Josh Frydenberg, for acting and asking his department to conduct the heritage assessment”, said convenor Juliet Ramsay. Download…

Despite the public concern for protecting the Lake and its lakeshore as demonstrated in our public meeting and petition to the ACT Government, the City Renewal Authority has stated it will be starting the work to infill 2ha of lake bed to enable a building estate. Therefore the Guardians have prepared Emergency Nominations for Lake…

Lake Burley Griffin Guardians will be delivering a petition to the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday 22 November to stop privately owned lakeshore development. The public petition, with over 730 signatures from local Canberra residents, shows that more than three times as many Canberrans oppose the West Basin development than supported it in the Government’s much touted 2013 consultation.

The next ACT Budget should reallocate funding from a proposed Lake Burley Griffin foreshore development to upgrade the existing West Basin, according to the  Lake Burley Griffin Guardians. Responding to an ACT Government call for public submissions and comments leading to the 2018 Territory Budget, the Guardians are calling for a whole-of-lake integrated conservation management plan…

The Lake Burley Griffin Guardians were very heartened at the support we received from many people at the Living Green Festival at Canberra’s Albert Hall on Sunday 1 Oct. Several Guardians operated a stall at the festival to provide information to visitors and members about our objectives and current activities. As a voluntary organisation concerned…

The recently published Heritage@Risk World report by ICOMOS on Monuments and Sites in danger features an article about the Lake Burley Griffin and Lakeshore Landscape. The article speaks for itself with West Basin the main concern.  It can be accessed at: http://www.icomos.org/en/116-english-categories/resources/publications/8766-heritage-at-risk-special-edition-2014-2015 . Lake Burley Griffin Guardians have been working hard to get some focus on the appalling…

Submissions have been called from the National Capital Authority for the public to comment on this plan. We encourage every Guardian and all friends to submit a response in their own words expressing their concerns.

A digitally enhanced view of what Commonwealth Avenue may look like if West Basin’s redevelopment goes ahead.

Petition to Australian Parliament The Guardians petition with 606 signatures was accepted by Parliament for referral to Senator the Hon Fiona Nash. JSCNCET In order to draw attention to the adverse impacts occurring to Lake Burley Griffin’s Lakeshore parklands, the Guardians have been busy lobbying members of the Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital…

On the 9 th October the Lake Burley Griffin Guardians held a celebration at West Basin to raise awareness of the ramifications of the proposed development to take place as part of City to the Lake project. The celebrations began with a guided walk along the foreshore to the Museum by the Convenor of the Guardians, Juliet Ramsay….

The Guardians wrote to the ACT political parties to seek an understanding of their intentions for West Basin. We have responses from those numbered 1-5 that includes a response from an Independent and nothing from the others. Liberal Party ACT; JeremyHanson Liberal Party ACT; Denise Fisher ACT Greens Marea Fatseas Independent for Kurrajong Sustainable Australia…

The references by Ian Wood-Bradley and Malcolm Snow about the intended layouts by Walter Burley Griffin for Civic, West Basin and Kings and Commonwealth avenues are pointless, simplistic and unhelpful. According to Professor Paul Reid in his scholastic study “Canberra Following Griffin”, Griffin’s genius was most clearly expressed in his 1911 Federal Capital Competition entry….

At the crowded Lake Burley Griffin Guardians public meeting 27 July, Government officers claimed that extensive public consultation on the West Basin development had been held. But the major part of the development, the building estate for apartments and businesses was excluded from the Foreshore consultation. This is the most dramatic and damaging impact —the blocking…

The appropriation of Lake Burley Griffin’s public parks for commercial and residential development raises serious questions about government planning, community consultation and the protection of our Lake and its parklands.

he Guardians have sent this paper on 18 April 2016 to all the ACT Federal and ACT Territory politicians to seek their commitment in protecting Lake Burley Griffin.

The ACT Government aided by the National Capital Authority propose a land grab at West Basin by pushing out the shore line to the extent of floats shown on these images. An extensive foreshore of boardwalk, promenade, water spaces and pavilions is to be built beyond the line of infill. This infill land and most…

The ACT Government is planning to develop nearly all the space of West Basin parkland in its City to the Lake proposal commencing next financial year. The symbolic route to Australia’s Parliament along Commonwealth Avenue will be adversely impacted by buildings of 6-8 storeys blocking vistas across the lake to the hills and mountain ranges….

Views of West Basin from near the National Museum. The white rectangles illustrate the approximate height of the buildings proposed in West Basin Estate Development Stage 2. Note the rectangles are not true to the shape of the blocks and the buildings would seem as one continuous mass from this angle. Work on Stage1A, Foreshore…

The Exposure Draft of the National Capital Plan (NCP) 2015 creates major planning and aesthetic problems as it proposes extreme developmental criteria that will be enormously detrimental to the aesthetic and heritage values of Lake Burley Griffin and Canberra in general. West Basin This area has already seen the development of popular activity spots such as the Mr…

The Exposure Draft of the National Capital Plan (NCP) 2015 was recently out for public comment and submissions. There are several stages in this revision taking it to the end of the year when it will be submitted to the Minister. The plan allows for development extremes, discussed below, that will be enormously detrimental to the beauty of Lake Burley Griffin and Canberra in general…