Save Adelaide's Riverbank - by 27 October
The biggest-ever attack on your Open Green Public Park Lands will go ahead soon unless you step in to object.
This area in Helen Mayo Park (Park 27) to be re-zoned “Entertainment”
We've listed below what YOU can do to protect the 70 hectares of riverbank Park Lands that the Government wants to re-zone as future construction sites
The four proposed new development zones alongside the River Torrens
The Government wants to cut out the four areas of riverbank Park Lands (shaded in blue and green above) and re-zone the entire 70 hectares for development, allowing:
Apartments
Hotels
Helicopter Pad
Multistorey Car Park
Shops
Light Industry
Entertainment
Licensed Venues
This area of Park 26 is to be re-zoned to permit tourism businesses, shops and licenced premises
The Government will accept your feedback only until 27 October.
You can make a submission through the Government's website here: https://yoursay.sa.gov.au/riverbankprecinct
Or simply email plansasubmissions@sa.gov.au
Use this link if you would like to use our suggested draft email.
This area of Park 26 (Pinky Flat) is to be re-zoned to permit tourism businesses, shops and licenced premises
Stuck for words?
Here is a short message that you can copy and paste if you want to:
I reject the re-zoning of any part of the Adelaide Park Lands.
If Parks are re-zoned for other purposes then they will lose their character as Parks. Re-zoning for the proposed purposes of entertainment, innovation, health etc would allow multiple developments over coming years to gradually replace Open Green Public spaces in each one of the four targeted zones.
Adelaide's figure-eight of Park Lands garlanding both the City and North Adelaide is a treasure found in no other city in the world.
It should be valued as such, not sacrificed as if it were merely vacant development sites.
Many areas of the Park Lands have been lost to development over recent decades and the current re-zoning proposal would have the effect of diminishing much further the Open Green Public areas of Park Lands - accelerating the loss of this priceless resource.
If you click on this link, it will open up an email with the text above all ready for you to send, if you wish.
The email is pre-addressed to Planning SA with cc to the the Member for Adelaide, Rachel Sanderson MP.and bcc to the Premier, Steven Marshall premier@sa.gov.au.
Re-zoning for development would target both sides of the River Torrens / Karrawirra Pari on the city side (east of) this railway bridge in Bonython Park,
Someone who is NOT stuck for words about this re-zoning proposal is The Advertiser columnist Rex Jory. See what he had to say on Monday 4 October 2021.