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.…
All the development which has been going on, and proposed for the future, in the Molonglo Valley has called for more power. To provide this power, Evoenergy is constructing a large new electricity substation. It has taken some time for the concept of a substation on the north-east corner of William Hovell Drive to morph from the ‘Whitlam substation’ into the ‘Molonglo substation’ but the…
Transport Canberra and City Services has produced a Draft Active Travel Plan. This sits under their Active Living Principles which were developed in 2015. Some of these principles have been included in variations to the Territories Planning and Development Act. The Government’s Active Travel Map includes equestrian trails although it is less than accurate. This last consultation effort is aimed at providing cyclists and walkers…
Submissions regarding the Development Application for the Duplication of William Hovell Drive close on 1 August. There are several places along the length of WHD between Drake Brockman Drive and Bindubi Street which are of concern to the ACT Equestrian Association and the local National Trail Co-ordinator – notably the underpass near Lands End. You can read the joint ACTEA/NT submission here