QPRC sustainability project officer Cameron Pensini… “We are going to test out tree species to see which ones cope with heat best.” Photo: Belinda Strahorn
QUEANBEYAN is leading the way to “beating the heat in the burbs” with an ambitious new plan to tackle urban heat.
Climate-change projections show Queanbeyan is likely to experience 12 more days a year over 35C by 2070.
Heat mapping technology is detecting “severe” heat pockets across the CBD, so Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council’s (QPRC) “urban vegetation and heat adaptation strategy” is a new approach to keeping cool, inevitably helping the region prepare for a hotter future.
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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.
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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.”