Splash out for your Parks
by Shane Sody
Join us, with your flippers, goggles, floaties, snorkel or boogie board on Saturday 18 March 10am at the old West End Brewery Site, underneath the huge FOR SALE sign.
Protecting and restoring your Park Lands means finding OTHER sites to put new infrastructure.
The State Government needs to SPLASH OUT to purchase brownfield sites for new facilities like schools, hospitals, police barracks and even an Aquatic Centre.
The Government is splashing out with your cash to buy 524 properties to upgrade South Road. But so far, it hasn't tried buying even ONE brownfield property to protect your Park Lands.
The Adelaide Park Lands Association wants to see new schools, new hospitals, and a new Aquatic Centre. We support this infrastructure but we REJECT the false narrative that they must always be sited on your world-unique Open Green Public Park Lands.
New Yorkers wouldn't tolerate sacrificing their Central Park to infrastructure. Adelaide can do so much better to honour your Park Lands, because there are always alternative building sites, like this one.
SPLASH OUT with us, at the old West End Brewery site on Port Road, underneath the huge “For Sale” sign.
Be there on Saturday 18 March at 10.00am. Bring your flippers, goggles, floaties, snorkel or boogie board!
Even a quarter of this site (just one of the advertised “superlots”) could be purchased for new State Government infrastructure. Why has it been rejected? It’s conveniently located on the tram line, close to the City. Why can’t the State Government splash out ANYTHING to protect your Parks, when it is buying 524 South Road properties?
Show the State Government that splashing out to buy even ONE property like this, they can get a win-win. Let's have new infrastructure AND protect your Parks.
Background
The old West End brewery site is just one of many potential sites in the City, Hindmarsh or Thebarton area that would benefit from the rejuvenation that could be sparked from any new large-scale State Government investment. In particular any brownfield site on or near Port Road would be much more convenient for patrons of a new Aquatic Centre, with the tram-line nearby.
More than 2,500 people have signed a petition calling for the State Government to choose a brownfield site for its proposed new Aquatic Centre.
Separately, in a separate survey conducted last year, more than 85% of respondents wanted the Government to choose a non-Park Lands site.
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See our earlier coverage of the proposed new Aquatic Centre:
Your Park Voices growing louder (8 Mar 2023)
Worth nothing? Or Priceless? (25 Feb 2023)
Council joins Aquatic Centre brownfield push (2 Feb 2023)
Government to chop falcon, possum, cockatoo habitat (27 Jan 2023)
Aquatic centre double press: Gov’t and Council (15 Jan 2023)
Aquatic centre: petition reaches 1,000 signatures (20 Dec 2022)
Cognitive dissonance on your tree canopy (4 Dec 2022)
Ideal brownfield opportunity (29 Nov 2022)
Diversions, illusions on Park attacks (12 Nov 2022)
Demand brownfield building sites instead (28 Oct 2022)
Patrick’s FOI probe on Aquatic Centre bungle (26 Sept 2022)
Hands Up for your Trees (12 Sept 2022)
New Aquatic Centre site targets dozens of mature trees (5 Sept 2022)
No assurances on tree destruction plans (15 Aug 2022)
When given a real choice (31 July 2022)
Aquatic centre consultation farce (22 July 2022)
Hindmarsh, Brompton, for an Aquatic Centre? (30 June 2022)
Olympic swimmer backs Park restoration (29 June 2022)
Imagine a restoration of this Park (20 June 2022)
State Gov’t tree threats making national headlines (16 June 2022)
Think Outside the Box for locations (26 May 2022)
Aquatic mistakes - learn from history and restore a Park (16 Feb 2022)