About the Project

The proposal is for three new buildings located at the eastern end of the Valley Avenue in the Gungahlin Town Centre.  The buildings will be mixed use, including 950sqm of commercial tenancies on the ground floor, a new hotel with 56 rooms, 48 serviced apartments and 75 residential apartments (including some affordable housing).

About the location

The site is 4,863sqm and is zoned for mixed uses (CZ5 zone), located in Gungahlin Town Centre Precinct 4a: ‘Southern Transition’.

Meeting the objectives for CZ5

The proposal is consistent with the objectives for mixed uses zones.

Encourage higher density residential development in locations with convenient access to transport corridors, and commercial and employment centres

Create an efficient and sustainable urban environment and provide for a diversity of living, working and recreation opportunities

Maintain and enhance environmental amenity and undertake development using best practice environmentally sustainable development principles

Encourage a standard of urban design that is consistent with selected major avenues, approach routes and other strategically located areas

Encourage activities particularly at street frontage level that contribute to an active public realm

The project includes 48 new apartments (including affordable dwellings in accordance with the lease requirements for the site) within walking distance to the centre of the Gungahlin Town Centre.  The new buildings are also excellently located on a quality cycle route, with access to a bus route and a short walk to the light rail.

The new buildings will include a mix of uses - the buildings will include commercial spaces at the ground floor, serviced apartments and a new hotel. New apartments will include a mix of 1, 2 and 3 bedrooms as well as some affordable housing, providing a diversity of living options - all well located nearby local public recreational areas including parks, playgrounds and the grasslands.

The proposal’s landscape strategy is for deep rooted planting zones at the ground plane on three sides of the development, providing an attractive place for pedestrians and an important landscape buffer to neighbouring sites.  The planning for the site creates a strong pedestrian entrance to the buildings, with a new plaza space sitting within the centre courtyard, leading past commercial ground floor tenancies to the hotel entrance at the southern edge of the development. Landscape and proposed commercial tenancy spaces will create opportunities for activation of the public realm at both street frontages.

The design strategy has been to break the built form to The Valley Avenue to allow for better site perosity and to create opportunity for sunlight to reach the internal courtyard. The height of the hotel building to the rear has also been reduced from the maximum allowable height to maximise the potential for solar amenity for neighbouring townhouses in the neighbouring southern site.

Promote active living and active travel

Provide a high quality public realm by facilitating active uses on ground floor level that connects with the wider open space, pedestrian and cycle networks to promote active travel and active living.

Provide a mixture of compatible land uses and integrate suitable business, office, residential, retail and other development in accessible locations so as to encourage walking and cycling, and maximise public transport patronage.

Located adjacent to a quality cycle and pedestrian link, the new buildings will include a number of uses including commercial, residential, serviced accommodation and hotel – all with excellent proximity to light rail, bus routes, cycle routes and pedestrian connections.  Pedestrian and cycle pathways adjacent to the site provide connections to the Town Centre and transport hubs and are in excellent condition and are readily accessible.  The proposal is also located very close to the proposed future north / south green link that will provide an attractive and activated connection through to the light rail.

The proposal is also subject to the relevant rules and criteria of the Territory Plan including the:

• Gungahlin Precinct Map and Code

• Multi Unit Housing Development Code

• Commercial Zones Development Code

The development is consistent with the requirements for building height, setbacks and articulation, solar amenity and deep rooted landscape (please refer to the information material for relevant drawings).

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Engaging with the community

A presentation was made to the National Capital Design Review Panel on 1 December 2021.  Feedback has been taken into account in further development of the design for the project.

The project was presented to the Gungahlin Community Council on 9 March 2022.  The team will also be presenting the project to the community this month (see dates below for information sessions). 

We will be hosting two online ‘zoom’ information sessions to present the updated project design.

Sessions will be held on the following dates:

Friday, 18 March 12.30-1.30pm

Tuesday, 22 March 12.30-1.30pm

To join the session, please click on the session dates above to register your interest (you can register at any time before the session is concluded).  We look forward to seeing you there.

Do you have any questions?

If you have any questions please send them through to community@juddstudio.com.au (or you can ask us directly during the information session) before Friday 31 March.

Let us know what you think by Friday, 31 March 2022

To provide your feedback and comments on the project please click here to ‘Have Your Say’ before Friday 31 March. 

Alternatively, you can send us an email at community@juddstudio.com.au.

If you don’t have access to email you can also call our office on 6181 4963.