Convenient, COnnected, Affordable Living

The Greens want Canberra to be a city that’s easy to get around, with the services you need at your doorstep.

But right now too many homes are being built on the outskirts, isolating people and almost requiring them to have a car to access health, education, and community events.

The Greens want to set city limits for Canberra and develop our suburbs as real communities where everyone is able to live a healthy, fulfilling life, in a way that cares for the local environment.

'A model suburb for the Greens vision in Canberra'

Homes, Not Horse Racing

Land is the ACT’s most precious resource. We need to use it carefully, for maximum community benefit.

Labor is poised to hand the racing industry millions in profits, by allowing them to develop some luxury properties around the racecourse in Canberra’s north.

But this is prime land in the heart of Canberra. It’s exactly where we should be building homes and services to create a real community, already served by light rail.

With enough Greens in the Legislative Assembly next term, we will have the ACT Government buy back the entire 64 hectare site from the racing industry, to build a new inner north suburb and school.

THE ACT GREENS WILL:

  • Redevelop the current horse racing site to maximise community benefit
  • Deliver thousands of new homes, including hundreds of public and community homes and a retirement village
  • Build a new school and early learning centre to service the local community
  • Improve the health of the local environment by re-naturalising Sullivan’s Creek, growing a microforest and establishing public parks
  • Foster community with a public square, community hall, market gardens, environment hub and arts centre
  • Create space for shops, restaurants, retail and commercial offices
  • Ensure rezoning produces benefits for the Canberra community, not the horse racing industry
  • Ensure profits from development flow back to the Canberra community, not the horse racing industry

Read our plan to build a new Inner North Suburb and School

Take a look at our concept plan for Canberra's newest suburb