ACT land release program revealed in 2023-2024 territory budget

Meanwhile the first blocks of land in Kenny, a new suburb of Gungahlin, have been delayed another year.

Released with the 2023-2024 territory budget, the program maps out the government's land release schedule over the next five years.

Here are the key blocks of land earmarked to boost residential and commercial development in the coming years.

Molonglo Valley land will make up 36 per cent of residential blocks to be released over the next five years. This will include a substantial release in Whitlam and a yet-to-named suburb located east of Whitlam and John Gorton Drive.

In 2024-2025, the government will release a site in Molonglo Valley for a government college and high school.

Land in Lawson is due to be released in the coming financial year to support 446 medium- to high-density residential dwellings.

There is also land to be released at the Kippax group centre to provide more residential and commercial, including for 80 homes.

The final land release in Jacka and Casey will begin in 2023-2024.

The first release of land in Kenny, a new suburb east of Mitchell, has been delayed again. Plans have been pushed back another year, with the first blocks to now be released in 2025-2026.

There will also be residential, mixed-use and commercial blocks released in the Gungahlin town centre, including the site for the new Gungahlin community centre.

Among the significant number of new homes planned for the inner north is the release of sites in Watson, to deliver up to 400 homes in a mix of standalone blocks and units.

Additional funding has been allocated in the budget to support site servicing works and the construction of a neighbourhood park at Section 76 Watson, to facilitate the release of 200 new dwellings.

Two mixed-use development sites are due to be released in Kingston, with a goal to deliver 680 new multi-unit homes for the suburb.

Development of the East Lake urban renewal precinct will continue, with land releases to start in 2025-26. Over the next five years, 1150 new homes will be delivered.

The established district of Tuggernong will make up a very small portion (1 per cent) of land release in the years ahead.

However, the government is looking to release additional land for commercial, residential and mixed-use development at the Erindale group centre in Wanniassa. The program also noted the upcoming release of a parcel of non-urban land in Williamsdale.

There will be little land release activity in Weston Creek until 2026-2027, when the government plans to release land for 400 dwellings in North Weston. Land for another 250 residential dwellings in Weston Creek will follow in 2027-2028.

The government plans to release land for 1470 new residential dwellings and more than 11,000-square-metres of commercial, retail and office space in the coming years.

A 22,500-square-metre block in Curtin, earmarked for a village-style dementia care facility, will be released in 2023-2024.

Over two years, blocks will be released in Symonston to provide 80,000-square-metres of industrial land for employment.

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