Community groups who want to halt the proposed Ellerton Drive Extension (EDE) will be surveying candidates prior to council elections on 9 September. It’s the third election in three years that the proposed EDE has featured as an election issue. A spokesperson for the community campaign said people can in this way
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Queanbeyan’s controversial new road goes to tender assessment
Despite vigorous neighbourhood protest over poor public consultation, loss of amenity and and habitat destruction along the proposed roadway through suburbs and bushland, the controversial, Ellerton-Drive Extension (EDE) project has been pushed another step towards construction. In May Queanbeyan-Palerang Council received seven tenders and six alternative proposals for the construction project.
Ten important things you need to know before breakfast
The Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council administration has seemingly extensive rate- and taxpayer-funded resources for communicating its activities and policies. For example, the monthly newsletter landing in everyone’s mailbox, backed up by council advertising and Administrator messages in weekly publications. We noticed Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council is using a cute way of getting
Council case for EDE as road corridor clearing begins
BACKGROUND: The EDE has been controversial and contested by resident groups in Jerrabomberra, Karabar, Greenleigh and Googong since at least 2009 when planning began in earnest. Issues in affected suburbs are about amenity: car and truck noise and pollution with a new road next to houses. Environmental destruction along the
Beware gift-wrapped pork barrels: the cost to ratepayers of the EDE
Depreciation, maintenance…. Council watch by former Palerang Councillor Peter Marshall. See link at end of this story for Council case for Ellerton Drive Extension. When I was elected to Palerang Council in September 2012, elected at the same time were five other new councillors; another one with less than two years experience as
Queanbeyan/Palerang council starts clearing wildlife habitat on contested new road corridor
As these images show, the chainsaws have moved in to the controversial Ellerton Drive Extension road corridor in January, under the direction of council administrator Tim Overall and against the documented wishes of a sizeable community segment. Environmental destruction in the river corridor and escarpment and loss of community amenity in
Yes vote on EDE while panel gives cold shoulder to dissenters
For readers of the print issue of the Bulletin, comments from presenters are at the end of this story. Regional ratepayers now also responsible The vote on whether to go ahead with the Ellerton Drive Extension (EDE) organised by Queanbeyan Palerang Regional Council two days before the federal election, was an extraordinary
EDE impact on neighbourhoods much bigger now
Last chance for a say Claire Cooper, Greenleigh Residents Group, analyses the latest ‘species impact statement’ released by Queanbeyan Council on the effects of the Ellerton Drive Extension (EDE) road proposal. She urges her fellow citizens to comment to council before the 3 April deadline. They say the world is run
It’s what Council doesn’t tell you that tells you the most! EDE to date
CityLIFE magazine is produced by Queanbeyan Council and distributed to all households with the council’s official point of view on matters. In response, the following article by Peter Kontis summarises the perspective of citizens concerned about the impact and shortcomings of the proposed EDE roadway Queanbeyan Council’s CityLIFE November newsletter is
Queanbeyan survey of Old Cooma Road drivers: EDE not preferred route to Canberra
Results announced in early July from a Queanbeyan community-initiated residents’ survey shows a preference for Dunns Creek Road over the Ellerton Drive extension (EDE). Those surveyed live along Old Cooma Road including Googong township. The survey found that almost 72 percent of people would be more likely to use Dunns Creek