One of the currently-proposed attacks on your Adelaide Park Lands is the Government's plan to put a new Women's and Children's hospital on the last Open Green Public Park Lands space on the North Terrace side of Park 27.
Two hectares of landscaped gardens including a wetlands and a century-old river red gum tree in Park 27 are at risk from the State Government's plan.
However, a survey of Women's and Children's Hospital medical staff has revealed widespread dissatisfaction with plans for the new hospital.
Comments to the survey referred to "the limitation of space" at the proposed Park Lands site.
The two-hectare triangle of Park Land that has been targeted for the new hospital was only one of several possible sites that the State Government examined for a new Women's and Children's Hospital.
Another site that was examined in 2018 was directly across North Terrace behind the old Newmarket Hotel. That site has now been approved for a building of 32 storeys. Its proposed height of 107 metres, is so tall it would require a change to airline flight paths into Adelaide airport.
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A site with this potential would surely be large enough for a better, larger Women’s and Children's hospital with all the facilities that medical experts are recommending.
It is not too late for the State Government to go back to the drawing board, protect this Open Green Public garden next to the RAH and plan for a better, larger Women’s and Children’s Hospital across North Terrace in the CBD.
Any site that the Government desires can be obtained using its compulsory acquisition powers.
