The Belconnen Community Council (BCC) is a not-for-profit, government-funded community organisation. The Belconnen Community Council (BCC) is an advocacy group that represents the interests of our members and the community to the ACT Government on a range of matters affecting the people who live, work, and play in the Belconnen District.
As the voice of Belconnen for over three decades, with over 100,000 people in our catchment, we are intimately engaged with good and bad processes. We are uniquely positioned to offer observations on what works for all sides of the channels we engage with.
We live in a growing district resplendent with natural beauty and a barely sustainable level of infrastructure to support it. Belconnen is the largest district by population, which will increase by 70,000 residents by 2060. The ACT Government must sustainably provide for this predicted population growth within Belconnen in a sustainable way that keeps Belconnen such an attractive place to live. As such, the ACT budget should reflect the reality of this increase and plan for the necessary investments in Belconnen’s infrastructure, services, amenities, and employment opportunities to ensure a good standard of living for existing and future Belconnen residents.
The BCC has worked with its community and members to identify several key priorities that should receive urgent attention in this budget. These priorities reflect the main areas of concern that many residents consider needing better focus from the ACT Government to meet community expectations.