Canberra Avenue The deterioration of the quality of the landscape The height of buildings, the encroachment of these buildings on Canberra Avenue and the Canberra Avenue has been a streets behind, the loss of soft landscaping and green spaces, and reduced tree canopy have major driver for this work. caused an overall deterioration in the appearance of the Avenue in recent years. Not least of The NCA does not support these factors has been the marked neglect of the urban forest with trees struggling for water, the use of the median for dying or with broken branches. The original vision for the Avenue was a grassed middle section event related parking but with an avenue of trees that were watered and maintained. Again, when Manuka Oval is in use, cannot control the provision parking under the trees along and behind Canberra Avenue causes compaction of the soils that of future parking structures. undermine the health of trees. In order to achieve the Great boulevards around the world have several things in common a sense of space and light, – desired landscape and trees and green spaces, medium height buildings along the avenue that do not restrict that light urban design structure along and are in proportion to the width of the boulevard itself. In addition, utilitarian features, such the Main Avenue a as service areas and driveways, do not usually have direct access onto the boulevard. landscape master plan will Canberra Avenue has moved away from these standards. Examples of this include the fact that be developed in the bins for Manuka Cinema are on the Avenue, and apartments and hotels further up the road consultation between the adjoining Empire, Dominion and National Circuits, have their driveways directly onto the NCA and the ACT Avenue. This is dangerous, causes unnecessary congestion and is an impediment to free flow of Government. Any works or increasing traffic volumes. proposals coming from this plan will require works approval from NCA and will be maintained by TCCS. Any redevelopment of Section 96 Griffith (current Manuka cinema site) will require design of the highest quality.
Canberra Avenue The height of buildings, the encroachment of these buildings on Canberra Avenue and the streets behind, the loss of soft landscaping and green spaces, and reduced tree canopy have caused an overall deterioration in the appearance of the Avenue in recent years. Not least of these factors has been the marked neglect of the urban forest with trees struggling for water, dying or with broken branches. The original vision for the Avenue was a grassed middle section with an avenue of trees that were watered and maintained. Again, when Manuka Oval is in use, parking under the trees along and behind Canberra Avenue causes compaction of the soils that undermine the health of trees. Great boulevards around the world have several things in common – a sense of space and light, trees and green spaces, medium height buildings along the avenue that do not restrict that light and are in proportion to the width of the boulevard itself. In addition, utilitarian features, such as service areas and driveways, do not usually have direct access onto the boulevard. Canberra Avenue has moved away from these standards. Examples of this include the fact that the bins for Manuka Cinema are on the Avenue, and apartments and hotels further up the road adjoining Empire, Dominion and National Circuits, have their driveways directly onto the Avenue. This is dangerous, causes unnecessary congestion and is an impediment to free flow of increasing traffic volumes. The deterioration of the quality of the landscape Canberra Avenue has been a major driver for this work. The NCA does not support the use of the median for event related parking but cannot control the provision of future parking structures. In order to achieve the desired landscape and urban design structure along the Main Avenue a landscape master plan will be developed in consultation between the NCA and the ACT Government. Any works or proposals coming from this plan will require works approval from NCA and will be maintained by TCCS. Any redevelopment of Section 96 Griffith (current Manuka cinema site) will require design of the highest quality.
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