8 storeys) high flats or 32 metres (about 11 storeys) at the corners of Macarthur Avenue with Northbourne Avenue. Low-rise offices are permitted in a small area in the southeast of the suburb around McKay Gardens. Suburb amenities Turner has a combined Special-Education and Mainstream Public school situated between David, Hartley and Condamine Streets, with a combined Pre-school. Child-care centres in the suburb include: Christopher Robin's Children's Garden (Watson Street) Sage Education and Childcare (Moore Street) Treehouse in the Park (Ormond Street) Turner has several churches: a Baptist Church (Condamine Street), a Ukrainian Orthodox Church (McKay Gardens), a Seventh-day Adventist Church (MacLeay Street), a Lutheran Church (Watson Street) a Friends Meeting House (Quakers Church) (Corner of Bent and Condamine Streets) a Korean Full Gospel church meeting at the Baptist church. It also has a tennis club (in Condamine Street) and lawn bowls club (in McCaughey Street) and several ethnic clubs, a French association (the Alliance Française) (in McCaughey Street) and Polish club (in David Street) and Croatian club (in McCaughey Street). There was a police youth club on Watson Street (relocated to West Belconnen in late 2006 due to costly maintenance issues with the building). Turner is within walking distance of the CBD and the Australian National University. The suburb adjoins the local O'Connor shops. Open space Turner has a high proportion of parks and open space. This is due to a number of factors: It contains half of Haig Park – a large park of pine trees originally built as a barrier to reduce dust from affecting the city, when Canberra was still mostly a sheep station. It contains a flood/drainage reserve associated with Sullivans Creek which makes up a large portion of parkland. It contains several public sports ovals. It contains Turner primary school which has a generous oval and open space. It contains a Tennis club attached to Haig Park. Politics Turner is located within the federal electorate of Canberra and it is represented by Alicia Payne for the Labor Party. In the ACT Legislative Assembly, Turner is part of the electorate of Kurrajong, which elects five members on the basis of proportional representation, two Labor, two Greens and one Liberal. Polling place statistics are shown to the right for the Turner polling place at Turner School in the 2022 federal and 2020 ACT elections. Geology Calcareous shales from the Canberra Formation are overlain by Quaternary alluvium.