Pierces Creek is a former rural forestry settlement in the Australian Capital Territory in Australia, which was managed by Housing ACT since the 1980s.
[1] The 13 homes at the settlement were destroyed during the 2003 Canberra bushfires[1] and have never been rebuilt despite a proposal by the ACT Government in the mid-2000s.
The Pierces Creek settlement was originally established as a semi-permanent camp in the 1920s to house workers in the surrounding forest plantations with permanent housing being constructed in the 1930s to attract men with their families to work in the industry.
[1] Tenants could not purchase their houses due to the settlement being zoned as "plantation forestry" under the National Capital Plan.
[1] Following the fire, the ACT government led by then Chief Minister Jon Stanhope proposed the construction of a "world class sustainable village with 50 houses".