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$500,000 make-over for two Queanbeyan lanes
After securing $505,701 from the NSW Government’s Your High Street grant program in May 2021, Council are set to improve safety, amenity and functionality of No Name Lane and Blacksmiths Lane.
The two pedestrian laneways intersect with Monaro Street and act as a link between carparks, businesses, community and arts venues.
The planed rejuvenation of these lanes aims to increase pedestrian traffic in Queanbeyan, support local businesses and improve community safety and comfort.
Initial concepts for the two lanes are now open for community comment on our Your Voice page. The proposed work in these laneways includes:
The refurbished Rusten House. Photo: Helen Musa.
QUEANBEYAN’S former hospital has been reborn as a restored art centre, with the official opening of the new Rusten House Art Centre this afternoon (April 22).
Members of the arts community, historical society, healthcare services and families of key figures throughout the history of Rusten House joined project staff to witness the unveiling of a plaque to mark the official opening of the new art centre that has transformed the previously run-down building.
Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council Mayor, Tim Overall, said that Rusten House was an important part of Queanbeyan’s history after beginning life as a hospital in 1862 and that many prominent families whose names are scattered across Queanbeyan’s history had funded and contributed to the establishment and operation of Rusten House including the Gale, Campbell, Rutledge, Collett and Wright families.
Tim Geyer, Christine Rampling and Tim Overall at the site of Queanbeyan’s proposed botanical garden space. Photo: Belinda Strahorn
A botanical garden will transform parkland on the east side of the Queanbeyan river into a Botanical Sister City Garden, reports
BELINDA STRAHORN
MAJOR changes are planned over the next 50 years for Queanbeyan’s urban landscape, including the creation of a botanical garden.
Delivered in stages, the project – currently in the concept design stage – will transform a city-owned parcel of parkland on the east side of the Queanbeyan River into a Botanical Sister City Garden.
One of only a handful of major regional cities without its own botanical garden, Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council’s (QPRC) mayor Tim Overall sees the project as “visionary” and a “long-term investment” in the city’s tourism.
The Shannon’s Wheels event in 2020. Photo: Graham Gittins.
MORE than 600 antique cars, motor bikes, special interest and modified vehicles will be rolling into the Queanbeyan Showground on Sunday (February 28) for the annual “Shannons Wheels” vehicle display.
Hosted by the Council of ACT Motor Clubs (CACTMC), which consists of 75 motoring enthusiast groups throughout the region, the event will see makes and models from all over the world, proudly on display from 10am to 1.30pm.
“Whether it’s vintage, veteran, classic, or even a fire engine, there’s cars there for everyone to admire,” says CACTMC committee member Graham Gittins.
“There’ll be vehicles on show from the turn of the 19th century all the way up to yesterday’s models.”
Mayor Tim Overall in festive mood at The Royal.
AS EPIC goes quiet this Easter weekend, downtown Queanbeyan will keep the spirit of the National Folk Festival alive through âGood Folkâ, two days of music-making.
At a launch held in the Royal Hotel this morning (January 29) Helen Roben, managing director of the Folk Festival, suggested that the coming event, âGood Folkâ, wouldnât really be a festival, but rather a program featuring 22 concerts.
But for his part, the Mayor of Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council, Tim Overall, described the âfestival with a small fâ as âvery exciting, a great result for the local economy after the drought, fires, floods and covidâ. It was sad, he said, that elsewhere in the immediate region the popular Majors Creek Music Festival had been cancelled, and there had been unanimous support on council for a partnership with the festival.