TAMS are undertaking trial measures to combat the illegal dumping through the "Charity Bins Pilot Project". The Pilot Project will test two main strategies - "enhanced enforcement" and "practice change". This Pilot will run from 1 August until 28 February 2013. the intent is to collect data on the amount of illegal dumping within selected areas and monitor how different strategies may effect the incidence of illegal dumping in trail regions.

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Proposal: LEASE VARIATION-UNIT 1 & 2. See application form for full details. Period for representations closes: 08/05/2012

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A Public Design Workshop on planning options for the Weston Group Centre Master Plan will be held on Wednesday the 4th of April at the Uniting Church Parkinson Street Weston between 6 and 8.30 pm.  This workshop will be run by the Strategic City Planning and Design Group of the Environment and Sustainability Directorate of the ACT Government.  Options for the Group Centre will be presented and outlined at this Workshop.

If you have an interest in the outcome of the Master Plan you are encouraged to attend and view and discuss the options proposed for the Group Centre.  This is again another opportunity for community input.  Remember its "our Centre" and we need your input.

The ACT Government is preparing a master plan for the Weston group centre to update and reinvigorate the centre over the next 20 to 30 years. Tell the government what you think.
* What are the needs of the local and wider community?
* What works well in the centre and what could be improved?
* What are your concerns and needs for the centre?

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In a bid to ease future traffic concerns around Weston Creek, the Act Greens are fighting for improved public transport services for the area.

Greens transport spokeswoman Amanda Bresnan said she envisaged an area off Cotter Road being a public transport hub for both existing residents in Weston Creek and future residents in Molongo .

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Proposal: LEASE VARIATION-ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS Lease variation to increase gross floor area by 17 m2 to 370 m2. Tandem customer order point in existing drive-thru lane and cashier booth extension to existing building. Period for representations closes: 10/12/2010.
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The answer to Weston Creek’s car parking shortage is not more bike lanes, or more frequent bus services, it is simply more spaces around Cooleman Court – but how to achieve this is not quite so simple. Members of the community toyed with the idea of paid parking or adding an extra storey to the car park and identified areas that could be turned into more parking spaces, at the Weston Creek Community Council (WCCC) meeting last Wednesday.

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TAMS’s response to the parking woes at Cooleman Court seems to be the offering up of private parking at other venues to overcome the shortage of car parking at the Centre. TAMS commissioned a study in December 2009 after WCCC raised parking at Cooleman Court as a community concern. The study results were not surprising as it found what Weston Creek residents already knew - that the main car parks are ‘operating at full capacity’!

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DESPITE the removal of a controversial bike lane, residents in Weston are still up in arms over the change to traffic lanes along Streeton Drive.

About a year ago, Weston Creek  residents driving along Streeton Drive found that where there had previously been two lanes, there was now one, as well as a bicycle lane the width of a regular car lane.

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As this column goes to press (Southside Chronicle, 20 Oct 09), Weston Creek residents are preparing for the Weston Creek Community Carnival on this Saturday October 24, from 11am to 4pm (behind Cooleman Court).

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