The design for the park is with the ACT Planning Authority for development approval. Plans for both the youth facility and other works which include upgrading the pond and other recreation facilities for the park have been submitted at the same time. Both will be posted on the ACTPLA website sometime very soon.
If you do take a look on the ACTPLA website you will see that the plans are for the facility still with all the elements we have identified as may not be built for budget reasons. By having these in the DA now they can be built as funding is available without the need for a further approval process, provided it isn't too far into the future.
Expressions of Interest have also been called for construction tendering - with an add placed in the Canberra Times last week and the week before. We expect to have quite a bit of interest in this project from construction companies and will be ensuring that the company selected to construct the skate elements will be very competent in this field. The project is being broken up into a number of tender processes related to each of the construction areas - such as earthworks, electrical, landscaping, general concreting and skate area concreting etc.
In the meantime the plans are being finalised in packages that work with this tendering process.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Priorities
Thank you for your feedback on priorities. The project reference group also met last week to discuss your feedback and provide some direction to PCL. This was then taken to a meeting of the project managers, designers and government agencies last Thursday.
The project managers have been advised that the least important elements, the ones which will not be built if the budget does not allow, are the climbing structure, video and ipod dock, shelters, some landscaping, solar panels, some seating, and most lighting.
We hope the tenders come in at a price that allows us to complete the project as originally planned - but at least we have a strategy, which everyone seems to agree on, if it doesn't.
The project managers have been advised that the least important elements, the ones which will not be built if the budget does not allow, are the climbing structure, video and ipod dock, shelters, some landscaping, solar panels, some seating, and most lighting.
We hope the tenders come in at a price that allows us to complete the project as originally planned - but at least we have a strategy, which everyone seems to agree on, if it doesn't.
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