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What do you value about the site?
What features of the site do you particularly value? How might they be preserviced in future use?
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Holt Final Report A (2.893 MB)
Comment 1 8 Jun 2008, 5:19 PM
The most valuable thing is that it is a bit of open space.
Comment 1.1 14 Jul 2008, 11:25 AM
I walk my dog and go jogging on the green spaces around the school. It is nice to have the open spaces like that and it keeps with the "Bush Capital" theme, I grew up with here in Canberra. I also play cricket and soccer with my friends in this area when time allows it.
We are expecting a bundle of joy in October and I would hope our child would enjoy the same sort of freedom to play on grass as I did, and not the ugly concrete courtyards so prevalent in Sydney and Melbourne. Needless to say, it hurts alot when you fall over on concrete while trying to play sport.
I hope we Canberrans don't look back with regret on the memory of the "Bush Capital" in the not too distant future, but that is the way we are heading. I say leave Holt's green spaces alone.
Comment 2 24 Jun 2008, 3:03 PM
We use this space daily to walk our dog and kids, if it were maintained better more people could actually play cricket or soccer on it. That the school has not maintained it adequately for their own students is appalling and this goes back years not just since it was announced the school would close. Wide open spaces is what old suburbia is about. If we wanted to live in areas were there is a dedicated central park, roof tops touch each other and we have a courtyard for a backyard we'd move there.
Comment 2.1 1 Jul 2008, 9:02 AM
There are plenty of new developments with medium density housing and small public spaces. We live in old houses in old suburbs in order to be around the big open spaces that used to distinguish Canberra. Please don't fill them in and make them like the new developments.
Comment 3 3 Jul 2008, 11:05 AM
What I value about this site is that it is a community space within walking distance.
With the price of fuel rising it seems ridiculous to demolish community buildings and so force more cars onto the road to reach such basic services as pre-school and primary school.
If the site is kept intact then it can be used in the future.
Comment 4 13 Jul 2008, 9:49 PM
The space offers a natural, green ( well alright, brown), alternative to the rest of the concrete jungle. Somewhere to go for a walk. I live near the school oval and every day it is crammed with people walking dogs, pushing prams, playing soccer. The place is alive! Sure, the screeching cockys at 5 in the morning can sometimes test the patience however that is much more preferable than another 50 townhouses. At least hearing the cockys reminds us how close to nature we are.
Keep the space. Holt needs it.
Comment 4.1 16 Jul 2008, 10:18 PM
Actually it was because of the cockys and trees we bought where we did.