An international golf course designer and LIV Golf supporter has sounded an alarm about the prospect of losing thousands of trees from the picturesque North Adelaide golf courses in your Park Lands.
It seems that State Government ministers need a fresh reminder about how many people value and love your Park Lands.
The Possum Park Protection Platoon is stepping up advocacy and action to head off the Government’s seizure of your Park Lands for profit.
The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands has cleared the way for a loss of biodiversity and large intrusive new buildings, infrastructure and more car parks on your Open Green Public spaces.
The move defies many of the State Government’s own rules and laws; so that an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.
The State Government’s hasty swoop to take over a large swathe of your Park Lands is designed to clear the way for a loss of biodiversity and large intrusive new buildings, infrastructure and more car parks on your Open Green Public spaces.
The move defies many of the State Government’s own rules and laws; so an upgraded golf course can downgrade your Park Lands.
The London-based National Park City Foundation has "encouraged" the South Australian Government to "properly protect" Adelaide's "nature and recreation spaces."
The State Government has been warned that many people have “higher expectations” now that Adelaide has been declared a “National Park City.”.
SA's new Planning Minister Josh Teague is about to make the biggest decision in the 184-year history of your Adelaide Park Lands.
Mr Teague will decide the fate of riverbank Park Lands totalling 35 times the size of Adelaide Oval, but all public feedback, and advice delivered to him will be secret until after he’s made his decision.
It's been more than 12 years since your Adelaide Park Lands were nominated for State Heritage listing.
During that time, attacks on Open Green Public Park Lands have continued relentlessly, while progress on Heritage listing has stalled.
Now that 12-year delay is about to come to a head in State Parliament, with a draft law to formally recognise your Adelaide Park Lands as a State Heritage Area.
Adelaide's losing mature trees at an alarming rate. As many as 75,000 trees are disappearing each year across the metropolitan area. Premier Steven Marshall has threatened hundreds more of them to build a proposed stadium in Helen Mayo Park. A campaign launch by the National Trust next Wednesday, December 1, will showcase how people power can help reverse this trend.
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.
