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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Lanie Tindale

Community protests relocating rehab next to preschool as 'urban-infill insanity'

The move to relocate a drug and alcohol rehab near a preschool and licensed venues in a leafy northside suburb is "urban infill insanity" and consultations have "been an absolute joke," a resident says.

Fiona Bourke is petitioning the government over a proposal to move Arcadia House, a 12-bed rehabilitation and outpatient facility, to a site in the west Belconnen suburb of Cook.

The government has proposed moving drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility Arcadia House to Cook. Picture by Karleen Minney
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