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Friday, 1 April, 2011

Lightsview in South Australia, has been acknowledged for its achievements in the delivery of affordable housing.
 
The 2400 dwelling housing development, located at Northgate in Adelaide’s inner north-eastern suburbs, has produced its own range of homes to meet its 15 per cent affordable housing commitment.
 
The project won the Best Affordable Development award at the Urban Development Institute of Australia’s Awards for Excellence in Adelaide last night.

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Wednesday, 9 March, 2011

One of Australia’s foremost urban designers has left private practice in Sydney to join CIC Australia and to work on major projects for the company including the new township of Googong in NSW.

Clive Alcock is a specialist urban designer and a former principal with the internationally renowned architectural and urban design firm Annand and Alcock. His roll call of urban master planning projects includes Sydney’s King Street Wharf and Pyrmont Bay, as well as Newcastle’s Honeysuckle waterfront.

Internationally, Clive was responsible for Birmingham’s city centre masterplan, as well as the masterplan for the Royal Victoria Docks at London’s Docklands. He designed Cairo’s financial centre in Egypt and the Zhenjiang urban core in the Shanghai region of China. One of his major projects involved working as part of an Australian team to plan and design a major extension to Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan.

CIC Australia’s Chief Operating Officer, Tony Carey, says Clive Alcock’s arrival at CIC is a major coup for the company that not only validates CIC’s reputation for its work in urban design and development, but will open up significant new opportunities for growth in the company’s markets around Australia.

“It’s very rare in this country to find someone with Clive’s level of expertise and project portfolio, which covers some of Australia’s and the world’s largest and most prominent urban precincts,” Mr Carey says.

“We are very excited and very fortunate to have Clive on board with CIC, particularly as the company is about to embark on some major new projects throughout Australia, including the Googong township, but also the design and development of new communities in Darwin and South Australia.”

Googong will eventually be home to about 16,000 residents and will be a model for new urbanism and sustainability in Australia.

Clive Alcock is no stranger to CIC’s main areas of operation in Canberra, Adelaide and Darwin. He has already worked on the Gungahlin Central residential precinct and the new Molonglo community in the ACT, while in Adelaide he worked on North Playford, Seaford, the Bowden Urban Village and CIC’s own Lightsview project. In Darwin, he was involved in the Weddell Newtown structure planning workshop.

Mr Alcock’s expertise in sustainable design and ‘place-making’ has been rewarded with major industry awards for architecture, landscape architecture, planning, sustainability and affordable housing. He was also appointed by the NSW Government to create a syllabus on the built environment for NSW schools.

Monday, 29 November, 2010

The Lightsview development has been acknowledged for its achievements in the delivery of affordable housing.

The 2500 dwelling housing development, located at Northgate in Adelaide’s inner north-eastern suburbs, has produced its own range of homes to meet its 15 per cent affordable housing commitment.

The project won the Best Affordable Development award at the Urban Development Institute of Australia’s Awards for Excellence in Adelaide last night.

Lightsview Project Director Alan Miller said land value could have presented a barrier to the delivery of affordable housing options, but innovation had overcome this.

“Lightsview is located only 8km from the Adelaide CBD, making the challenge of delivering homes to the market underneath the regulated price bands potentially quite difficult,” he said.

“Our approach to meeting the affordability challenge was to develop an innovative range of house designs and then develop a range of new allotments to suit. This allowed us to use each allotment as efficiently as possible and influence the overall cost by minimising the land component as much as possible.

“We have been able to do this without compromising the fresh, individual design of the development, and nor have we needed to subsidise the homes in any way.”

The judges commended the project for its innovation in product development and master plan integration that will see homes in this range spread anonymously throughout the 91ha development.

The project, being developed jointly by CIC Australia and the State Government’s Land Management Corporation, is expected to be completed in 2018-19. The site is the last urban infill sit of its type north-east of the city.

Friday, 15 October, 2010

Planning for the new township of Googong is progressing to schedule with a key milestone—the township’s Development Control Plan—approved by Queanbeyan City Council last night.

CIC Australia, the company responsible for the vision behind Googong, has been working closely with council to progress the project and to ensure all aspects of the township’s planning are well considered and thought through.

The Development Control Plan sets out Queanbeyan Council's objectives and controls for subdivision, landscape and housing for Googong, and allows it to be developed in keeping with CIC Australia's vision and masterplan for the township.

“Googong is a special new place for the Canberra region—a new, totally self-contained township that will set the benchmark for urban development in the region,” says CIC’s Project Director Mark Attiwill.

“For that reason, the planning and thinking behind this project is paramount, so we are working very closely with Queanbeyan City Council to make sure every aspect is thoroughly examined.”

In 2011, expect to see more major milestones tumble as the project’s development gets closer to kick-off. An information seminar will be held in the first half of the year to provide an update on the vision for Googong, as well as details of our first release, which is planned for the middle of 2011.

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Wednesday, 11 August, 2010

The highly successful partnership between CIC Australia and the Larrakia Development Corporation is heading back to school following Charles Darwin University’s announcement of the team as the preferred provider for an urban subdivision on the university’s Palmerston campus.

The collaboration between the two organisations has already proved successful with the Lyons project in Darwin’s north – the first residential project of its kind in the area since the 1980s. “The partnership produced a unique outcome at Lyons,” says Larrakia Development Corporation chairman Koolpinyah Barnes. “We’re proud to be in a position to build on this success at Charles Darwin University.”

Vice Chancellor Professor Barney Glover has confirmed the university will soon begin contract negotiations for the project.

“We are very excited about continuing our work in Darwin, and particularly the great working relationship we’ve established over many years with the Larrakia Development Corporation,” says CIC Australia chief executive Col Alexander.

Friday, 2 July, 2010

Crace is adding “award-winning” to its long list of accomplishments after it was named a winner in the ACT Master Builders & Boral Excellence in Building Awards in June for its fabulous and funky terraces.

CIC Australia and PBS Homes Pty Ltd took out this year’s award in the Medium Density – Townhouses & Villas category for the architecturally designed terraces in Crace’s urban precinct, which were hailed by judges as “distinctive”, “aesthetically pleasing” and “environmentally conscious”.

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Wednesday, 3 February, 2010

One of Canberra’s most respected corporate entities, Canberra Investment Corporation Limited, has renamed its business to reflect its growing portfolio of local and interstate projects.

The new name, CIC Australia, will come into effect today in a move that the board and executive management team say more accurately reflects the company’s national operations.

CIC Australia, one of the ACT region’s most successful and progressive development companies, is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and is controlled by Sir Ron Brierley’s Guinness Peat Group.

While its reputation over the last two decades has been built primarily on quality residential projects in and around Canberra, a concerted program of geographic diversification over the last five years has seen it compete for, secure and undertake a range of highly successful residential projects in regional NSW, Adelaide and Darwin.

In the ACT, the company is undertaking a range of major projects including the prestigious The Ambassador apartments at Deakin, Quayside Kingston Harbour apartments at Kingston Foreshore, and an industrial site at Fyshwick East. It is also working in joint venture with the ACT Land Development Agency on the new Canberra suburbs of Crace and Forde.

CIC will shortly commence work on the massive new township of Googong, a community of some 5,500 homes, schools shops and recreational facilities just 16 kilometres south-east of Parliament House in Canberra.

In NSW, the company has two major housing developments on the South Coast—at Batemans Bay and Bega—which are showcasing CIC’s commitment to environmental and cultural sustainability.

In Adelaide, the company is working with South Australia’s Land Management Corporation on the highly successful Lightsview project 8 kilometres east of the city, which showcases architecturally designed terrace homes from $249,000 through to large executive style homes for over $1 million.

CIC Australia’s 691-lot community in the beachside suburb of Aldinga, south of Adelaide, showcases contemporary housing types for the region as well as a range of important environmental measures. These have included purpose-designed rainwater tanks plumbed to the toilet in each home, compulsory installation of solar hot water, and landscape guidelines mandating the use of species compatible with the adjoining sensitive Aldinga scrub.

In Darwin, the company is working with Defence Housing Australia and the Larrakia Development Corporation on the highly successful suburb of Lyons, which created about 700 new homes and generated jobs and economic investment throughout its construction phase.

The Larrakia community is playing a key role in the creation of Lyons and in ensuring Indigenous culture and heritage is recognised and incorporated into the suburb. Direct employment has been created for 21 Larrakia people so far.

Chief Executive Col Alexander says that while CIC’s board and executive management team were happy with the way the company has been branded to date, “we have had to acknowledge that over the years there has been an evolution in the way we do business,” he says.

“As the company has grown, so too has our focus, which now encompasses projects not just in Canberra, but throughout Australia.

“To be true to our values, our clients and our shareholders, we felt we had to bring our identity in line with the way we were operating corporately.

“This is an innovative and nimble company that is responsive to the needs of its clients, the market and the communities it builds,” he says. “These attributes and brand values are reinforced by our new identity, which acknowledges where we’ve been as well as where we’re going.”

Friday, 18 December, 2009

The NSW Government has approved a new $1.6 billion Canberra Investment Corporation Limited (CIC) development almost half the size of Woden and located just 16 kilometres from Canberra’s Parliament House and 7 kilometres south of Queanbeyan CBD.

The new masterplanned township of Googong, which will be built on 780 hectares of former grazing land, will take 20 to 25 years to create and will include 5,550 homes of varying types and sizes to house about 16,000 people.

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Friday, 20 November, 2009

Locals and visitors alike will have the chance to experience Batemans Bay’s new community in the making when Bay Ridge plays host to a community fun day.

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Thursday, 29 October, 2009

The new suburb of Crace may be greener, funkier and more exciting than other new developments, but it is also a place that takes community seriously.

That’s why the building company behind Crace’s stylish urban terraces, PBS Homes, has teamed up with Master Builders Group Training to give at-risk teens new vocational training opportunities and help them stay in school.

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Friday, 1 May, 2009

Large lots, magnificent old trees and plenty of room to breathe are hallmarks of Bega’s Glen Mia housing estate on the South Coast.

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Tuesday, 3 February, 2009

Canberra Citizen of the Year John Mackay will trade light and power for bricks and mortar when he takes a seat as a new Independent Director on the board of Canberra Investment Corporation (CIC) Limited.

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Wednesday, 7 January, 2009

Deakin’s residential property sales record has been trumped by nearly $300,000 following the sale of a premium penthouse apartment at The Ambassador development on Hopetoun Circuit.

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Wednesday, 16 January, 2008

Brisbane-based student Patrick Murphy has joined the team at Canberra Investment Corporation Limited (CIC) as part of the Australian Government’s National Indigenous Cadetship Project.

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Thursday, 10 January, 2008

Bay Ridge, Batemans Bay’s newest development, has reached new milestones with construction of its main entrance now complete, and the first 16 lots on the market.

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