HomeUnder the authority of the National Capital Act, the NCC is responsible for designing, building, maintaining and preserving federal assets in the Capital region in a way that will inspire Canadians with pride. The NCC owns more than 470 square kilometres of land in the National Capital Region (nearly 10 percent of the whole), and we are responsible for the care and maintenance of a varied collection of properties. In the past century, the NCC and its predecessors have:
- protected more than 50,000 hectares of conservation land, parks and green spaces
- created large urban parks and connecting green spaces
- bought many heritage buildings and other Capital treasures and saved them from destruction
- built half a dozen major bridges and hundreds of kilometres of pathways and parkways
In 1959, Parliament gave the NCC a mandate to undertake “the development, conservation and improvement of the National Capital Region” so that the Capital would worthily represent Canada as it grew into a great modern nation. As such, we:
- guide the physical development and use of federal lands and
- plan development that is appropriate to the role and significance of the National Capital Region.
- prepare long-range visionary plans to guide policies for ownership, use and development of federal lands
- prepare area and site plans, concepts and guidelines to shape the development of specific areas within the Capital
- prepare land-use and design approvals for all federal lands in the region
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