ED Cocks thinks southsiders in Mawson deserve something like a Lonsdale Street of the south. Trouble is, the ACT government has erased the good intentions of eight years ago from its planning website.

In 2015 the government’s master plan said the area was tired, run down and in need of improvement, the Liberal MLA for Murrumbidgee says.

He’s launched a community campaign for a reboot of the Mawson master plan, which had called for urgent repairs, a new car park and land for a future additional supermarket.

“Since then, the valuable goals of the plan seem to have been forgotten and Mawson has suffered a further eight years of decay,” he says.

“Now the ACT Labor-Greens Government has erased the plan from their planning website.

“This plan envisioned Mawson Place as a shared pedestrian zone with ground level shops and cafes, and offices and residences above. A Lonsdale Street of the south.”

He accuses the government of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars repeatedly asking what needed to change at Mawson but failing to fix the problems.