Northern Gateway DPA-09- Amendment to the Territory Plan
See this 22 September 2025 press release
(Some) Downer residents would have received flyer in your letter boxes in late September.
Here is the flyer that DCA has placed in letterboxes in the affected residences.
Note:  If the link in the PDF goes nowhere, try

The draft amendment to the Territory Plan was open for submissions until 4 November 2025.
Submissions by various organisations and individuals can be viewed  here.

Among other things, the amendment proposes significant changes to Downer's development changing the residential densities in the Northbourne Ave strip from Antil St to Phillip Ave to R5- high density residential.  See fuzzy map below- note the red bits. Red is for RZ5 according to the map legend.

Here is the DCA DPA-09 submission. Version submitted on 4 November 2025.

Background submissions and DCA planning efforts:
2 March 2023:  DCA SUBMISSION ON THE INNER NORTH AND CITY DISTRICT STRATEGY
DCA wrote to the Chief Planner, Ben Ponton, to invite him or a representative to speak to Downer and Inner North folk at a public meeting (we suggested 6 Feb 2023). Here is the response from the ACT Planning/ EPSD.
Our August 2024:  pre ACT election corro with the ACT Ministers on all matters Downer is here  No response!
December 2018: The City and Gateway Urban Design Framework. The Framework and other details can be found here. This covers future development on the strip along Northbourne Avenue from Stirling Ave in Watson to the City. 
End 2018: ACT Government released the 2018 ACT Planning Strategy. This strategy, which the Downer community had not been consulted on, identifies Downer as an 'Urban intensification locality'.  This became our "Don't Dump on Downer" campaign.
At a public meeting on 4 February 2019, the DCA provided a presentation (which you can view here) on what these proposed changes mean for Downer, and the questions we had for the ACT Government. 
The DCA made a submission to the National Capital Authority's public consultation process on 'DA91', the amendment to the National Capital Plan that will give effect to the City and Gateway Urban Design Framework. Our 4 March 2019 DA91 City and Gateway submission here.

In February 2020, after community consultation, the DCA developed a Downer Vision Statement, which articulates to the community, the ACT Government and commercial developers what the Downer community expects in relation to the ongoing development and sustainability of our suburb.