Federal Environment Minister rejects protection of threatened species on Australian Heritage Village site

The Federal Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett AM MP has rejected a request from the Watson Community Association to protect remnant White Box, Yellow Box and Blakely’s Red Gum grassy woodlands on the Australian Heritage Village redevelopment site.

The correspondence from the Department is reproduced below:

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For more information on this and related issues please visit the following pages:

• Media Coverage: Chronicle – Village and bushland to make way for housing
• Territory Plan Variation 261, Watson
• Regent Honeyeater Study Paper
• Imminent approval of Draft Variation 261 Watson
• Redevelopment of the Australian Heritage Village in Watson (DV261)
• National Capital Village redevelopment