The ROCKS Redevelopment Project

Gabrielle Breen

Project Coordinator

Canberra Dance Theatre Conservation Council DADA

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Phone: (02) 6247 3064

Residents of Childers and Kingsley Streets

• Social, cultural and environmental interests

• On site for 25 years

• More than 25,000 users of facilities and services annually

• Accessible and human scale

Why redevelopment?

• Current facilities inadequate

• Increased need in Civic

• Security of tenure

• Opportunity for sustainable development

The Redevelopment Proposal

• Mixed use

• Partnership based

• Possible land grant or other partnership arrangement with government

• Commercial development subsidises community facilities

Partnerships

• Government support

• Potential tenants and partners

• ROCKS as an integral partner

Government processes

• Civic West Masterplan

• Community Facility Needs Assessment Study

• Office of Sustainability

• Affordable Housing Taskforce

• Roundtable

Participation

• Redevelopment Committee

• Working Groups

• Complicated structures

• Sustaining volunteers

• Adapting processes

Attempt at sustainable development

• Planning and design checklist

• Sustainability principles

• Future showcase

Future stages

• Securing the redevelopment

• Participatory planning and design

• Construction and landscaping

• Documenting the process

Contact details

Gabrielle Breen

Project Coordinator

rocks@ecoaction.net.au

0421 822 2 17

Website: www.rocks.org.au