Canberra Now: ACT planning backflip; and Molly's struggle for support

Don't pack the brolly away just yet, we're expecting another shower or two today ahead of a top of 11 degrees.

And, seeing as it's another frosty start, why not grab a warm beverage and snuggle up with today's top stories? (Any excuse)

In an "unprecedented" move, ACT planning authorities have revoked the approval for a development application they gave more than a year ago, after an internal review found it should never have been given the green light in the first place.

The project at the centre of it all is Captial Recycling Solitions which wanted to buy a section of rail corridor from the ACT in order to export recyclables to Port Botany.

But the approval came months before Capital Recycling Solutions announced its plans to divert almost the entire waste stream from the city's tip at Mugga Lane to Fyshwick.

Katie Burgess has all the details here.

Twelve-year-old Molly has beaten a brain tumour and still wants to be a fairy when she grows up. The Murrumbateman student lives every day with a rare chromosone condition that leaves her functioning at the level of a six-year-old.

But last week, her family's careful plans to place her in a specialist learning unit at a Canberra high school were abruptly rejected by the government. And they want answers.

Read my story here.

A national deal on energy security is hanging up a thread as two state Labor governments issue new demands to protect the policy against any future roll-back of renewable energy.

The Turnbull government has just days to meet their terms or they will exercise their veto powers at a meeting in Sydney on Friday.

Peter Hannam and David Crowe have all the details.

St Edmund's, Brindabella Christian and Darmalan's College have joined Radford in speaking out about the ACT government's planned overhaul of public transport.

More than half of all school buses will go as part of a new network that offers faster, more frequent buses and makes "better use" of existing resources.

But schools are crying foul, saying this could unfairly affect younger students and those with disabilities as well as impact on their own enrolments.

Read more here.

The results are in: University of Canberra researchers have named the capital's most popular playground.

Did your favourite top the list? Han Nguyen has the story.