The ACT Equestrian Association has been nominated for a Chief Minister’s Canberra Gold Award. This award recognises and celebrates the contribution made by individual citizens and groups who have chosen to make Canberra their home for fifty years or more. ACTEA was nominated by an anonymous member of our community for its vocal advocacy for equestrian concerns to Government including the maintenance and repair of…
The results of the consultation sessions held earlier this year in regard to the development of a new 5 year Trails Masterplan have been published on the Your Say website at https://hdp-au-prod-app-act-yoursay-files.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/9517/0113/1170/YourSay_What_we_heard_report_-_UCSFP_.pdf Based on the participation rate, the report shows a pretty low use of the Park by horse riders. It is impossible to tell by the Report itself whether this is an accurate reflection…
Starting 20 Novemeber some major works will commence on an extension to the existing bus layover at the intersection of Hindmarsh and Eucumbene Drives. Works will include the following stages: creating a BNT route behind a fence west of the current vehicle parking and dumping ground at the end of Eucumbene Drive realigning the entrance drive into the Canberra Equestrian Centre extending the bus parking…
As a flow-on from the new CIT works in Woden and the upgrading of the Bus Interchange there the old bus layover at the top of Hindmarsh Drive is being upgraded and enlarged. This is going to have its own flow-on effect on the configuration of the driveway into the Canberra Equestrian Centre and the current route of the Bicentennial National Trail from the horse…
With reluctance the Equestrian Park Management Group has increased the hire fees at the Park. The need for a review of fees was driven by the increasing cost of maintaining the Park in the face of much heavier use of every part of the facility and Sport and Recreation Services’ pointed hints that if the Park was not charging anything like enough to cover costs…
The Balloon Festival starts on Saturday 11 March and ends 19 March. The balloons will take off by the lake from about 6:45 so they will be in the air early. It’s taken some nagging but the following information has been provided in regarding to balloon flights over Equestrian Park and Government Horse Paddocks. The event managers are aware that there will be two large…
ACTEA has received an update on progress with development of the old Forest Park Riding School site next to Equestrian Park. The developer, LDK, now have all their approvals from the National Capital Authority and are waiting for the financial handover from the previous owners. which was expected by the end of September. LDKexpects to be surface cleaning the site for the first 2-3 weeks…
At the end of 2021 ACTEA made a submission to the review of the elderly Murrumbidgee River Corridor Management Plan. The main thrust of that submission was to seek an improved and safer route for the National Trail from Point Hutt to Namadgi through Tharwa. You can read the ACTEA submission on the ACTEA website at https://www.actea.asn.au/murrumbidgee-river-corridor-management-plan/ The government Your Say website now contains an…
The Government is committed to expanding the e-scooter network to connect Gungahlin and Woden. The Your Say website (https://yoursayconversations.act.gov.au/shared-e-scooter-expansion) contains in interactive map which allows people to comment on the proposed route. ACTEA has found 2 places where adding silent bicycles to an existing network would be a problem for horse riders. The National Trail route between Cook horse paddocks and the Arboretum using the…
After two very frustrating years the National Capital Endurance Ride, which was to have been held at “Brookvale” on 15-16 October 2022, will now be held at Kowen Forest on 22-23 October. This event, which is run by the ACTEA affiliate, ACT Endurance Riders Association Inc (ACTERA), will comprise an 80km endurance ride plus rides of 40, 22 and 13km and a 53km (40+13km) elevator.…