A Prospect private school has received a green light to renew its lease and licences over part of your northern Park Lands, after a decision not to invite anyone else to lodge Expressions of Interest.

Over the past 15, months, a determined community activist has delivered a stream of questions to Premier, Peter Malinauskas, and the Member for Adelaide, Lucy Hood, in an effort to understand why his Government is targeting your Park Lands for commercial developments.

The “Save Festival Plaza Alliance” is urging Premier Malinauskas “to transform two city precincts in one inspired move that could truly invigorate Adelaide.”

Please do NOT come to our planned volunteer action workshop on 9 December, unless you are ready and willing to work!

What’s the opposite of “Open, Green, Public”? This week, it’s Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16 of your Adelaide Park Lands.

There are ten children’s playgrounds within your Adelaide Park Lands.

Three of them, each named after the early 20th century Lord Mayor, Charles Glover, have inspired this contribution from poet, Alex Robertson. It’s an ode to the playgrounds of your Adelaide Park Lands.

In recent weeks, your eyes might have been drawn to these distinctive yellow blossoms high in the canopy in one or more parts of your Adelaide Park Lands.

If so, you’ve noticed the largest tree in the Grevillea family: the Silky Oak.

Briefly, in other news from your Adelaide Park Lands…. Beach volleyball, Tree Climb, Hutt Road works, Aquatic Centre

Neither the State Government nor the City Council are prepared to let you know how they deal, in secret, with your Adelaide Park Lands.

A Freedom of Information request about the proposed golf course “re-development” in your Park Lands has produced hundreds of blacked-out pages.

The campaign to Save Festival Plaza remains very much alive. Momentum is building to prompt a Government re-think, even if only for the adverse economic impact of current plans to build over an Adelaide heritage icon.

Meet a bird with a notorious reputation: the assertive, sometimes aggressive, and certainly ever-vigilant Masked Lapwing.

The names assigned to each one of the Parks within your Adelaide Park Lands are intended to convey not just a geographical location, but also help you to understand each Park’s fascinating story. Find out the stories behind the two names for Park 19.

After meeting Premier Peter Malinauskas with a high-powered delegation, the convenor of the “Save Festival Plaza Alliance” believes the campaign is at a turning point, and that the Premier is prepared to listen to your concerns.

More than 4,000 tonnes of sand has been delivered to your Park Lands to create playing courts for the world beach volleyball championships.

History enthusiast Graham Smith has joined an elite group - becoming only the fourth person to publish a book about your Adelaide Park Lands. Part proceeds from the sale of “Adelaide Park Lands – History Perspective” will go to the Adelaide Park Lands Association.

As V8 super cars whizz around your eastern Park Lands in late November, how many of the motor racing fans will be aware of the long history of both horse racing and motor racing in Victoria Park/ Pakapakanthi (Park 16)?

Here’s the most recent contribution to our series of Park Poetry.

It’s ”Veale Gardens” by Venesha Winter. Are you a Park poet?

Behind the newly-named ‘Northern Parklands’ lies a new legal framework that risks setting a dangerous precedent for the way all South Australians’ public Park Lands are governed, funded, and developed.