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John Gorton Campus Carpark
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2022/09400
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<p>The Commonwealth Department of Finance (Finance) plans to develop a five-storey building incorporating a structured carpark and childcare centre facility at the John Gorton Building campus in the Parliamentary Triangle, in Parkes, Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The John Gorton Campus Carpark (JGCC) (‘the Project’) would be sited to the east of John Gorton Building, predominantly within Block 1 Section 35 and Section 21 and the Dorothy Tangney Place Road reserve, Kings Avenue Road Reserve, Parkes, on land currently used for carparking, road transport / carpark access, footpaths and open space.</p><p>The project area is 4.57 ha and includes:<br>– A disturbance footprint of 1.06 ha; and<br>– An avoidance area of 0.09 ha.<br>The avoidance area includes the tree protection zones around 1920s era tree plantings.</p><p>The project scope includes:<br>– Construction of a five-storey building incorporating:<br> • Approximately 1,100 car parking spaces over five levels<br> • Childcare centre with capacity for 170 places.<br>– Services demolition, relocation and provision, including:<br> • Demolition of existing trunk main stormwater infrastructure in Dorothy Tangney Place<br> • Construction of new stormwater main clear of the new carpark on the western side<br> • Relocation of existing water main around the outside of carpark structure<br> • Relocation of existing telecommunications conduit and cabling clear of carpark structure.<br>– Access and road modifications:<br> • Kings Avenue – Blackall Street signalised<br> • Blackall Street extended to the carpark on the western side of Kings Avenue<br> • Lane marking and median kerb and gutter changes.<br>– Landscaping, including:<br> • Irrigated lawn, concrete pedestrian paths and replacement tree planting along King Edward Terrace and around the on-grade carpark west of the Project.</p><p>The carpark and childcare centre are necessary to service current and future needs of the working population of the John Gorton Building and employees of and visitors to the Parliamentary Triangle and surrounds.</p><p>Design materiality includes the following:<br>– Northern façade of the JGCC comprises concrete panels to reflect the pronounced profiles of surrounding buildings, and vertical lines in surrounding structures including the Commonwealth Heritage Listed Edmund Barton Offices, located on the opposite side of Kings Avenue.<br>– The eastern and western facades have been designed with COR-TEN steel blades that will result in changing light and shadows over the course of the day to reflect the pattern of the JGB façade. Steel panels have been selected as they require no maintenance and are therefore a sustainable option. COR-TEN will develop a patina over time and is also used in other locations within the Parliamentary Triangle including Bowen Place walk and within the Humanities and Science campus (near the National Library of Australia and the National Science and Technology Centre).</p><p>Activities that would impact the environment are:</p><ul><li>Clearing of 50 trees. This would cause a temporary reduction in urban foraging habitat for native species and affect amenity. Replacement of 48 trees and other landscaping is to occur following construction. Clearing of trees could indirectly impact gang gang cockatoo and superb parrot which are matters of national environmental significance.</li><li>Construction of a building would directly impact on matters of heritage significance through clearing of trees within the disturbance footprint and establishment of a built structure within a precinct with heritage values. </li></ul>
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