Invitation to participate in community consultation - 18 May to 18 June 2026

Federal Golf Club and its retirement village operator partner Mbark are holding further consultation on the proposal to remove the concessional status from a 6.9 hectare part of the Federal Golf Course. You can view background information and plans relating to this proposal here.

How to participate

Consultation sessions will be held across three days in early June. At these sessions materials will be presented that outline the proposal and representatives of Federal Golf Club and Mbark will be available to answer your questions.

Online session 1: Tuesday 2 June 2026 from 6.30pm via Zoom

Public forum: Wednesday 3 June 2026 from 7pm, Woden Valley Community Council via Zoom

Online session 2: Thursday 4 June 2026 from 6.30pm via Zoom

Please register your interest to attend a session via email at taniaparkes@taniaparkes.com.au nominating which you would like to attend, and the details will be emailed to you.

For further information please contact Tania Parkes on:

Email: taniaparkes@taniaparkes.com.au

Telephone: 1800 172 173 (free call, mobile charges may apply)

You can submit your comments at any time to community@fgc.com.au

Development applications update - further approvals received

In addition to the previous approval for the golf course works, we are pleased to share the following development application updates:

• The subdivision DA has been approved. This approval permits the subdivision of the existing Federal Golf Club lease into 2 parcels - resulting in a parcel for an 18 hole championship Golf Course and a parcel for the siting of a retirement village. You can find this approval here.

• The Retirement Village & Entry Road DA has been approved. This approval relates to the development of a retirement village comprising 48 apartments in 6 buildings and 77 single storey houses, residents facilities building, construction of an access road, driveway verge crossing and offsite road works, signage, landscaping and associated works. You can find this approval here.

• The Lease Variation DA has been approved. This approval relates to the variation of the Crown Lease to add the use of ‘Retirement Village’ (maximum of 125 units) to the area to be subdivided only. You can find this approval here.

All the above mentioned applications can be viewed in full on the ACT Government’s website here.

An updated summary of the applications required for the project is pictured below and can be viewed in more detail here.

Additionally, we thank all who have submitted comments to the Planning Authority for the section s197A modification that was placed on Notification. Similar to the earlier applications, we have provided responses to the new themes identified here. You can read the responses to the earlier representations by clicking here and here.

Additional responses to new representations on DA202442898/899/900/901

Thank you again to all those that submitted their comments to the Planning Authority on our recent development applications. Similar to the earlier applications, we have responded to the new themes identified here. You can read the responses to the earlier representations by clicking here.

If you have any questions regarding the project or the development applications, please continue to reach out to us with questions at community@fgc.com.au.