Projects

After many years of dedicated community work, the first stage of the John Turnbull Park BBQ area was completed in October 2019.

The Association thanks the City of Hobart’s Shannon Avery for facilitating this project and the association plans, approvals and other works.

The Association is always open to thinking about how everyone in the community might better engage with our beautiful area. That is why we’ve been working with City of Hobart to have a basketball hoop installed within John Turnbull Park.

The hoop is now on order thanks to the fundraising by the community through our annual Quiz Night, and was installed in 2023.

Stage 2 of the John Turnbull Park BBQ area is yet to come to fruition. The slab has been laid and what’s needed next is funds and finalised plans. Then it will be time to get the council’s approval and their work’s crew to get the additional shelter built.

One of our community members, Dusty, submitted to City of Hobart Council information on 2 September 2022 about what residents see as issues and opportunities for improved safety and mobility along Augusta Road and for the rest of the Lenah Valley area.

Dusty collected this information through an interactive, online map from April to end of August 2022, and 41 individual issues / opportunities were identified.

City of Hobart Council then agreed that they would prioritise the creation of a Lenah Valley Local Area Mobility Plan, and sought community feedback in 2023 on a draft report, which identified the community’s wishes for better and safer walking, wheeling and bike riding opportunities in the area.

A final Local Area Mobility Plan for City of Hobart’s northern suburbs (i.e. New Town, Lenah Valley and Mt Stuart) should be presented to Council before the end of the year. We’ll be keeping an eye out for the final plan, and then advocating to City of Hobart to ensure that it’s implemented.

Haldane Reserve is a local bushland reserve located behind the Lenah Valley RSL.

A sub-committee has been formed to help facilitate a discussion with the community about what options there are to enhance this beautiful bushland.

A consultation day has been  organised by the LVCA for Monday 6th March at the Pat Murnane Hall.

Past Events:

An information day was organised by the LVCA for Sunday, 29 October at the Pat Murnane Hall.

A few community residents noted that there was interest in a TasNetworks’ community batteries trial project.

Dusty, the Association’s Vice President, has reached out to TasNetworks’ Future Networks Team to get more information.

• The Team is spending the next few weeks getting the message out, measuring the scale of interest, and seeing where interested groups are located.
• Next steps are to move into a discussion on what new opportunities communities value most and shortlisting potential sites.

Here is a TasNetwork’ community battery flyer (downloads a PDF), which provides more information on the project.

The Future Networks Team would love to meet with interested community members collectively and Dusty is happy to organise this meeting.

If you are interested, please send Dusty your best contact email to info@lenahvalley.com.au and he will organise a time to meet.

P.S. – This is an interesting, yet fairly long, ABC article on community batteries that goes through past experiences, future potential, and positive and negative views.