Caretaker Conventions

The Geocoded Addressing data maintained by Environment and Planning is the authoritative source for addressing in the ACT. The geocoded address provides the spatial location of the address (point) and the conventional description of a block or group of blocks in the ACT generally consisting of a street number, street name, division (urban only) and district. Addressing data is maintained on a daily basis as addresses are allocated resulting from Development Applications (DA), Estate Development Plans (EDP) or residential requests.
Each block may have many addresses and an address may cover many blocks. One urban block may have more than one address if there are several street frontages, or if it is a unit development or a dual occupancy. One rural block may have more than one address for a block. Currently, this is only the case where there is more than one residence on the block, but this may change in the future.
The ACT Government maintains property street address details under the Districts Act 2002. Information is captured for both urban and rural properties.

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Temporary road closure information for ACT public roads, provided as an RSS feed.

The Territory Plan is the key statutory planning document in the ACT, providing the policy framework for the administration of planning in the ACT.
The Territory Plan guides the planning and development of the ACT. It is changed from time to time due to social, economic and environmental reasons. The Territory Plan is used to manage development, in particular the way in which land is used and what can be built. It is used in the process of assessing development applications and to guide the development of new estate areas (future urban land). Land in the ACT is divided into sections and blocks. The blocks are zoned and the zoning determines the form of development on a block. There are 23 different zones. The Territory Plan map shows all these zones as different colours.
The purpose of the Territory Plan map is to show the zones and overlays that apply to land in the ACT, in accordance with requirements under the Planning and Development Act 2007.

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Information provided to an applicant under Freedom of Information legislation, by the ACT Government.

The ACT Government is committed to engaging the Canberra community in the development and delivery of its policies, programs, public works and services.

Time to Talk Canberra is the place to have your say online on local issues that affect or interest you.

This Java Script Open Notation (JSON) Feed and ArcGIS Online map presents the unplanned road closures within the ACT in real-time.

The fields of the JSON string include:

Object ID (Numeric field)
Global ID (Alpha-numeric field)
Project title (Free text field string)
Type (Selected from: light rail, special event, road works, emergency, utilities, telecommunications, building construction, ActewAGL, NBN, charitable organisation, inclement weather, other)
Describe activity (Free text field string required if "other" type selected)
Roads closed (Free text field string)
Reason for road closure (Free text field string)
Closure start time (Unix Format - see data dictionary for syntax)
Closure end time (Unix Format - see data dictionary for syntax)
Geometry (X,Y longitude, latitude format)

More information regarding the syntax for querying this API can be found in the linked data dictionary.

Media Releases from the Territory and Municipal Services Directorate, provided as an RSS feed.

Information on sentences made by the ACT Supreme Court.

The ACT Groundwater Abstraction Bores are locations and drilling details of groundwater abstraction bores in the ACT collected since 1980's. The data set is updated approximately every 6 months or when a new bore completion report is received by the ACT Government.

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News Alerts provided by the ACT Emergency Services Agency