St John Paul II College is a Catholic high school located at 1021 Gungahlin Drive that caters for boys and girls in years 7–12.

The private sector enterprise was the first of a number of tourism ventures to establish there over the coming years and in the early 1990s, the ACT government approved an application to rename the precinct Gold Creek Village.

[5] According to the 2016 census, The top religious affiliations for the suburb of Nicholls are Catholic 27.4%, No religion, so described 27.2%, Anglican 13.8%, Not stated 8.6% and Buddhism 3.1%.

The Lakes from 2006 to 2011 has been completely transformed and has undergone significant improvements which have been managed by Jamie Dawson ( https://sagca.org.au/fruition-for-gungahlin-lakes-a-capital-vision-realised ) who was involved with Ted Parslow's original design concept.

[7] From 1998 to 2011 over $28m was spent constructing the 6,000 square metre Clubhouse, purpose built undercover corporate facilities including a private bar, toilets and locker rooms.

[10] The project concept including all the design and construction outcomes since 1997 to 2011 were managed by Mr Kevin Grace, CEO of Ainslie Football and Social Club.The club has received numerous awards with it CEO, Kevin Grace, being recognised with the ACT Chief Minister's award for his contribution to business in the Australian Capital Territory.

The next phase of development of the golf course commenced in 2007(completed 2011) with the planting of thousands of native horticultural species and returning the 66 hectares area back to its natural environment, constructing well placed bunkers on each hole, rebuilding all the tee blocks and the construction of an extensive path system to cater for motorized carts and installing a computerized irrigation system.

The cart paths navigate their way through the tree canopies providing excellent shade cover in the hot summer months.

The new computerized irrigation system is able to take full advantage of the water in the lakes to ensure the course presents in an excellent condition even in the hottest driest summers.

The Lakes Golf course is an eco sustainable development using as little water as possible since it also located well below the 100 year flood line and having the most modern irrigation systems available.

A porphyry outdrops through most of the centre of Nicholls, this is green grey dacitic intrusive, with white feldspar phenocrysts.