Imagine fully restoring this part of your Park Lands.
In 2022, the State Government has put $82 million on the table to build a new Aquatic Centre. This represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to restore a part of your Park Lands that was lost 53 years earlier.
This is Denise Norton Park / Pardiprdinyilla (Park 2).
In 2020, the Adelaide community came together to defend this Park from an AFL corporate takeover plan.
In 2022, the fight is on again. It's a fight not only to protect dozens of trees, that are threatened by the State Government.
This fight is about more than that. It’s a pro-active fight. The Adelaide Park Lands Association stands for RESTORING Park Lands, not just fighting against a stream of never-ending attacks and encroachments.
The State Government says a proposed new Aquatic Centre in Denise Norton Park / Pardinyilla (Park 2) would result in “no net loss” to your Park Lands.
That’s just not good enough. “No net loss” entails a new loss. It shows a lack of vision: a lack of appreciation for your world-unique Park Lands. It shows that the State Government has not grasped the significance of this opportunity for Adelaide’s unique garland of Park Lands.
The first step is to persuade the State Government to look for a win-win: to choose a new brownfields site in a near-city suburb. You can help by nominating your preferred location in our 1-minute survey.
If the State Government embraces a win-win mentality, then this site within Denise Norton Park / Pardiprdinyilla (Park 2) could be transformed, just like the former SA Water Depot in Park 25 was transformed into the Narnungga Urban Forest starting in 2010.
In both pictures, Port Road is in the foreground, and James Congdon Drive to the right. This is the best example of Adelaide Park Lands restoration for more than a century. It shows what could be achieved at the site of the existing Aquatic Centre in Denise Norton Park / Pardipardinyilla (Park 2).
This one-minute time-lapse video is a condensed version of a 4m31s video produced by Sue Lang and the Friends of Narnungga Urban Forest.
