Our association has been lucky to have two uni students make compelling, punchy videos for us. The theme? The current Park Lands re-zoning threat.
'Plogging' all the rage
An Historic Turning Point
Formal consultation on the State Government’s 70-hectare Park Lands land grab ended last Wednesday, but the fight for your Open Green Public Park Lands is just getting started.
Park Lovers throughout South Australia realise how much is at stake.
YOU can help by contacting Members of State Parliament’s Upper House.
A smaller Car Park loss is still a Park Theft
What's On in Your Park Lands - November 2021
A Park in transition - wetland works in Park 20
Support swells for Helen Mayo Park
The Adelaide City Council, and State Parliament’s Upper House have each passed separate resolutions in support of your Helen Mayo Park, threatened by Premier Steven Marshall’s proposed new riverbank stadium.
Votes in the Council chamber (on Tues 26 Oct) and in State Parliament (on Wed 27 Oct) have put the State Government’s anti-Park Lands agenda in the spotlight.
Have Your Say on Park Lands – By Nov 8
Myth-busting #3: "Negative"
Time to reimagine Victoria Park?
Professor Doug McEvoy has a special affinity with Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16).
With motor racing gone, he's leading a community push for a new, friendlier Park design.
Forest Dwellers
Want to email a tree?
Labor, Greens back Helen Mayo Park against Premier’s threatened stadium
The SA Labor Opposition has joined with The Greens with commitments to protect Adelaide riverbank Park Lands from the current re-zoning threats of the Marshall Liberal Government.
The pledges throw a spotlight on the City Council, which in September took the politically-controversial step of offering to collaborate with the Liberal State Government in its push to confiscate Open Green Public Park Lands.
Come Here Sunday to Save hundreds of trees
The State Government has snubbed an opportunity to explain to you why it wants to destroy hundreds of trees in your Helen Mayo Park (Park 27)
The Save Helen Mayo Park Picnic Rally this Sunday at 12 noon is your chance to express a view: trees, or a stadium for this scenic location on the Torrens riverbank?
Heritage-list a bitumen heat sink?
APA has been lobbying since 2009 to have the Adelaide Park Lands declared a State Heritage Area.
Despite a positive recommendation from the State Heritage Council in 2018, the State Government has kept the idea on "pause" now for almost three years. So it is with a sense of amazement that we read of a new push to heritage-list not the Park Lands, but a patch of bitumen that has been despoiling one Park for the past few decades.
Aquatic Centre threat to remnant native vegetation
The Adelaide City Council is contemplating removal of remnant native vegetation to accommodate more car parking. It’s also missing an opportunity to restore a large slice of your Adelaide Park Lands to 'Open, Green Public' status.
The Council is refusing to consider any site other than a Park Lands site, for a new Aquatic centre.