The Ainslie Football Club is taking the ACT government to the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal (ACAT) to fight a significant increase to its rates bill it says could eat into the money spent on community sport.
The club's chief executive, Simon Patterson, said the rate per square metre for the Alan Ray Oval jumped from about $2.50 to about $50 after a subdivision triggered a re-evaluation of the land's value.
The subdivision was part of the club's major redevelopment of its Ainslie site. It is one of many clubs in the ACT looking to build housing on their land in response to the ACT government's push to move away from gaming machine revenue.
