Eileen and Greg Dunstone have unearthed this May 2001 report from the ACT Standing Committee on Planning and Urban Services about the proposal for residential development at Flea Bog Flat.
The report mentions that:
- South Bruce Residents’ Association members appeared at a public hearing in March 2001.
- SBRA members opposed the residential development, and referred to topics such as:
- noise
- woodland eco-system and a the mini-wetland
- absence of an ecological study
- loss of amenity.
- SBRA stated that "‘a meeting of our Residents’ Association on 19 November [2000], attended by most residents of the suburb, unanimously supported a resolution to have the site included in
Canberra Nature Park, as well as the other two adjoining blocks [the site of today's Calvary Haydon Retirement Community] because they are an essential link towards Black Mountain and Bruce Ridge" - SBRA considers that Block 4 [the northern edge of Calvary Haydon Retirement Community]‘is a vital east-west corridor between the Bruce Ridge and Gossan Hill in the Canberra Nature Park system… [and so should] be designated permanently as Canberra Nature Park… [It is] a species-rich zone of more than 70 identified local native plant species [and] at least 60 species of birds… [and] serves as habitat for kangaroos, wallaby, echidna, birds, lizards, snakes, frogs, butterflies (12 species) and many others’. Further, Block 4 ‘serves as a human corridor to commuters, students, hikers, athletes, joggers, walkers, naturalists and residents’.
