Category: ACTEA News

For those of you who have been wondering what happened to the Revised Canberra Nature Park Draft Reserve Management Plan 2020, the Minister for Planning and Land Management referred it and the Consultation Report to the Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Planning, Transport and City Services on 22 January 2021 for their consideration as required under the Nature Conservation Act. This is an important document…

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The Canberra Balloon Festival starts tomorrow and last to 14 March. There are only 20 balloons participating this year but there will be other private balloons about. Events ACT has provided ACTEA with the pilots protocol which indicated flying height and access to relevant equestrian places around the city. If you haver any issues  with safety over the two weeks of the Festival  it is…

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ACTEA has, for a couple of years, been in consultation with the ACT Government about a new western crossing of the Molonglo River, connecting the green spaces of the new suburbs of Whitlam and Denman. The Molonglo River Reserve Plan of Management indicates such a crossing but all efforts to find a safe ford have proved fruitless. A crossing will require construction of a bridge.…

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Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) has finalised its Horse Relocation Centre Operational Plan in conjunction with ACT Emergency Services. There is some changes for the 2020-21 Bushfire Season which has been declared as 1 November 2020 until 31 March 2021. EPIC will be a Horse Relocation Centre for this period. Please note that EPIC (https://www.exhibitionparkincanberra.com.au/) will be activated as a ‘declared’ relocation centre if an…

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Over the coming weekend around 2,000 people will be participating in the Canberra Running Festival. This will take place at the Arboretum and Stromlo Forest Park and the connecting trails between them along the Molonglo River Corridor. The 50k event will start on the Molonglo at 6:00am on Saturday morning and run to the top of Dairy Farmers Hill in the Arboretum and then back…

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The ACT Endurance Riders Association has submitted a comprehensive and well argued submission in response to the Draft Mountain Bike Report. There is, as yet,no date for the release of the Final Report.

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Canberra horse riders may have noticed a certain amount of noise in the last couple of weeks about the failure of Coombs Parkrun to receive a permit to restart its activities at North-Weston Ponds when the other five in Canberra did. The Coombs Parkrun Facebook has been especially unhappy and we know Parkrunners have been contacting MLAs and the Press. The ACTEA President features in…

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The ACT Equestrian Association has made a submission in regard to the Draft Mountain Bike Report. An analysis of this Report was circulated to ACTEA Affiliates and placed on this website on 21 September. The final submission was circulated to affiliates on 23 November. All submissions are due by COB on Monday 2 November. Please consider making even a short submission if you have not…

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On 19 October 2020, the Assistant Minister for Regional Development and Territories, the Hon Nola Marino MP, approved National Capital Plan Amendment 95 – National Arboretum Commercial Accommodation. Amendment 95 took effect on 28 October 2020, following registration on the Federal Register of Legislation. Amendment 95 to the National Capital Plan (the Plan) changed the land use policy of Block 4 Section 106 and part…

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The Labor Party response to the ACTEA Survey is here. ACTEA comment to the ALP Secretary was that it reads as if its creator has never spoken to a horse rider.   o0o Update: Yesterday the Greens sent ACTEA their overall sport and recreation policy. While the summary is pretty innocuous the more detailed description at https://greens.org.au/act/community-sport-and-recreation contains commitments that are very concerning for equestrians.…

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