Despite a promise of “extensive consultation” the State Government is still with-holding most of its plans for the North Adelaide golf course in the urban forested Possum Park /Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands).
You can urge the Premier to identify every one of the 585 mature trees that he admits he wants to destroy.
Dear Premier, why won’t you call me by my name? If you are going to chop down my trees, why won’t you look me in the forest and tell me straight? Yours sincerely, Pirltawardli ….
It’s holiday time - so time to explore your Park Lands, especially the remarkable urban forest on Adelaide’s doorstep - before it’s drastically cut back. “It’s Not Just a Golf Course” is the event title. Explore it with us, on one of a dozen dates over the next few weeks.
More than 300 trees have been felled, so far, to make room for a three billion dollar hospital on your Park Lands, but much more tree destruction is on the way.
The Labor and Liberal parties have combined in the Upper House of State Parliament to torpedo a law that would have given protection to your Open Green Public Adelaide Park Lands.
Treasurer Rob Lucas described the draft legislation as “evilness” while Labor’s deputy leader Claire Scriven wanted to avoid future parliamentary debates about proposed Park Lands attacks.
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?
