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.
You’re invited! Please come to inspect, first-hand, 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 15 dates over the next few weeks.
Fences or nets as high as a five-storey building will be required in your Adelaide Park Lands, to safeguard the public from wayward golf balls hit from a State Government driving range.
A mockup plan for a new championship golf course in Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands) has indicated a minimum canopy loss of 54% from the Park’s 9,000 trees.
The State Government is now under pressure to defend or justify its looming tree massacre, being planned to cater for a small number of multi-millionaire FIFO golfers.
Adelaide City Council has paused processes that might green-light the State Government’s proposed new $135 million megalith aquatic and commercial centre in your Park Lands.
In deciding the fate of your Park Lands, the City Council is caught between the demands of the State Government, and the clearly-expressed wishes of its own community.
Premier Peter Malinauskas says his Government has been subject to an “unfair characterisation that suggests that we've declared war on the Park Lands.”
The Premier has received the names of 7,500 people who’ve signed a petition, urging him to choose a win-win brownfield site for a new $135 million two-storey Aquatic and commercial centre.
Reports that the State Government is close to finalising a deal for the old West End Brewery site at Thebarton has raised hopes that infrastructure developments threatened for your Park Lands might be switched to this alternative site.
Meanwhile, the City Council has deferred a vote on handing over a three-hectare Park Lands site for a $135 million, two-storey megalith aquatic and commercial centre.
Have you noticed this strange small octagonal building in Rundle Park / Kadlitpina (Park 13) near the corner of Botanic Road and Dequetteville Terrace?
It’s on a site that was restored to your Park Lands in the 1980s; and is a rare surviving example of patterned brickwork that was commonly used in the late 1800s.
As well, he delves into how Adelaide became the first fully septic-drained city in the nation.
The Lord Mayor, Jane Lomax-Smith is one of the many who’ve been deceived by State Government propaganda, claiming that a $135 million new Aquatic and commercial centre would have a reduced “footprint” over your Open Green Public Park Lands.
Councillors, voting this month on a massive Park Lands land grab, are being urged to listen to their constituents and see through a barrage of State Government misinformation.
