THE City Renewal Authority is asking for feedback on plans it has to green-up for Garema Place.
The designs outline a less cluttered area with more greenery and dining opportunities, says CRA acting CEO Craig Gillman.
“This Garema Place upgrade will create a safer, more accessible and useable central meeting place for people,” he says.
“In creating a more open and beautiful new space, this upgrade will support safety, improve pedestrian access and increase economic activity.
“We consider Garema Place to be the community’s living room in the city centre – so we want input on what the upgrade should look like.”
Proposed features include:
• Accessible single-level pavement and easier pedestrian flow
• Better lighting to create a safer and more appealing precinct in the evenings
• Improved seating and outdoor dining spaces to enjoy food and drink from local businesses
• Trees and gardens to cool the space in summer and let the sunshine through in winter
• An open and versatile space that supports both special events and everyday activities
The project builds on upgrades to City Walk in 2020.
Visit the YourSay consultation webpage to view the proposed designs and provide input. The consultation closes May 14.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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