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of the underground parking facility beneath Poppy's Café was completed as part of the enabling works preceding the Memorial's Development Project. In addition to delivering an additional 123 permanent parking spaces for visitors the expansion also provides for additional bicycle storage and is plumbed to provide charging stations for electric bicycle and scooters in future.

   During the major construction works period of the Development Project a temporary car park has been created on the upper level of the underground car park to the temporary increase in traffic associated with trade works. At the completion of the Project in 2028 this area will be returned to a native bushland state in keeping with the broader landscape heritage values of the Eastern Precinct.

   Under the Memorial's SDP this area is designated as a site for possible future expansion for collection services buildings and the new underground car park structure has been designed to accommodate a two storey building above ground if necessary.

      2.5   Australian War Memorial Development Project 2019-2028

   On 1 November 2018, the Australian Government approved, and committed funding for the Australian War Memorial (Development Project (the Project). This section includes text provided by the Memorial.

   The scope of the Project is to construct additional exhibition spaces to enable the Memorial to continue to comply with the Australian War Memorial Act 1980; to equitably tell the stories of all Australian servicemen and women who have served overseas in conflicts and operations. This section provides additional information, prepared by the Memorial, on the background and development of the Project.

       2.5.1  Project Development

   In 2014 the Memorial identified, through its business planning process, the need to examine how it would tell the stories of recent and then ongoing service in wars and on peacekeeping and peacemaking operations. This was included as a priority in its 2014-17 Corporate Plan and research undertaken into possible ways to meet this need.

   In 2017 the Memorial received funds under a New Policy Proposal to Government for an Initial Business Case (IBC) to examine this need.

   The IBC was scoped to examine the following four key issues:

        * a lack of capacity to provide equitable coverage of conflicts and operations;

        * a lack of capacity to describe a broader description of war;

        * a lack of circulation space; and

        * poor accessibility and access.

       2.5.2  Initial Business Case (2017)

   The Initial Business Case (IBC) undertook an initial, broad, approach to examining the four key issues presented above before moving to more detailed examination of options

 The broad options were considered in five categories. Each of the solutions considered within each category was not a holistic approach to meet the need for the Project, but a measure that could