The Adelaide Park Lands aren’t just green space – they’re a vital part of how students, workers and recreational cyclists get around our city.
Kadaltilla / Adelaide Park Lands Authority says the Park Lands provide around 59 kilometres of continuous walking and cycling paths, connecting major precincts through routes including the Adelaide Park Lands Trail and River Torrens Linear Park.
And there’s an economic benefit too. Walking and cycling in the Park Lands generates an estimated $196 million in annual economic value, through direct health, transport and environmental benefits.
As Bike Adelaide Chair David Elliott writes, safe, connected Park Lands paths are critical to cycling in Adelaide – and to keeping our city moving.
It took a Federal Court case to find out what the State Government is actually planning for John E. Brown Park.
A two-storey driving range, 108 car parks, up to 400 metres of netting, an 18-hole mini-golf course, retail facilities, new roads, water tanks and other infrastructure — all on public Park Lands.
These are significant changes, yet despite repeated questions, the community has had no meaningful opportunity to see or comment on the plans.
Why did it take a court case for South Australians to find out what is being proposed for their Park Lands?
“MotoGP has not raced on a street circuit since 1982, and the reason for that was that riders kept dying.” As Adelaide plans to bring MotoGP back onto city streets, safety concerns could have profound consequences for the surrounding Park Lands.
For 16-year-old Sophie, the Adelaide Park Lands are more than a park — they’re her backyard, her running track and part of her home.
For almost a decade, Trees for Life’s Regenerate program has been bringing people together in the Adelaide Park Lands through Bushcare, nature, culture and connection.
We talk with Tricia Curtis about how caring for nature can also mean caring for ourselves—and why the Park Lands are such an important place for community wellbeing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
The head of a State Government agency trying to make Adelaide “greener” and “wilder” has urged community groups to be "shouting from the rooftops" about the Government's "ridiculous" plans to turn over 70 hectares of river-front Adelaide Park Lands for development.
Professor Chris Daniels advocates “re-wilding” the River Torrens which puts him in conflict with Government plans for massive new “Riverbank” buildings on Open Green Public Park Lands.
