It looks all very quiet at the moment, but the working group has been working on funding with the ACT Government and the new name for the old CIT gardens.

The gardens will most likely be called "Fetherston Gardens" in honor of Tony Fetherston though this process still has to be worked through. He was a foundation member of the Australian Institute of Horticulture in Canberra.

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The First Official Meeting of the Community Council Working Group on the CIT Park and Gardens is on Thursday, 22 April 2010 at 7.30pm in the Hawkes room at the Weston Club.

Stephen Alegria from Conservation and Lands, Territory and Muncipal Services will join us to talk about how we can work together to achieve a great park for the community. Click for a draft agenda »...

The community working group to oversee the transformation of the current gardens at the former CIT School of Horticulture into Weston Creek's premier park is starting to take shape. Kerstin Linton, one of the residents who fought for the retention of the gardens which had been pencilled in as a site for high rise apartments, will chair the new committee. She said she had already received correspondence from a number of Weston Creek residents eager to lend a hand. "We have 12 peple on our working group already, and some community groups have also indicated they are keen to help," Ms Linto said.

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The Community “Walk in the Park” held on Sunday 21 March 2010 in the CIT Gardens Park, was a great success. Over 50 people attended and spent over an hour becoming acquainted [and in some cases re-acquainted] with the mature trees and open spaces in the new Community Park.

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A walk through of the Weston Creek Community Park is being organised for mid-day Sunday 21 March to enable Weston Creek residents to view and appreciate the park. Residents may recall the recent government agreement to the Council’s representations to most of the gardens at the former Weston CIT site into a Community Park.
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The most significant open space area in Weston Creek, the CIT gardens, will be maintained despite the probable transformation of the campus to a school.

Consultation over the future of the site has been ongoing since since the decision was made to relocate students and staff at the Weston campus to the Bruce campus, with the site either  to be provided as a new location for the Islamic School of Canberra or for a medium density residential development.

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At the monthly meeting (4 Nov 09) discussion occurred about the formal classification of the area located at the current CIT Heysen Street Weston site that contains the area being discussed as a community park/arboretum. Purdon Associates and Mr Ross McKay advised the meeting that the site was classified as urban open space under the current Territory Plan. The plan (as at 4 Sep 09) details the site as urban open space as detailed in the map (click to enlarge) – full details are available on the ACT Legislation Register.

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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