Adelaide Park Lands Authority December Special Meeting
Adelaide Oval Licence Area
At a Special Meeting on 1 December 2011 APLA considered an 80-year licence for the Licence Area around Adelaide Oval, which came into effect on 1 December.
See APLA Board Member Gunta Groves' 'News from the Adelaide Park Lands Authority No.24' here.
The Adelaide Park Lands Authority 1 December 2011 Agenda paper can be found here (4.4MB).
 
APLA News for 2010-2012 can be found here.

Adelaide Park Lands Authority advises Government against Adelaide High School expansion into Park Lands:
At its Meeting on Thursday 10 November 2011 the Adelaide Park Lands Authority advised Government against expansion of Adelaide High School outside of its existing site into the Adelaide Park Lands as being contrary to the policies of:

• the Adelaide Park Lands Management Strategy, and
• the Adelaide (City) Development Plan.

Victoria Park Update:
Rare Chequered Copper (Grassland) Butterfly ( Lucia limbaria) re-discovered in Victoria Park, for more information contact Butterfly Conservation South Australia Inc. here or see the Chequered Copper (Grassland) Butterfly Fact Sheet here.

NEW THREAT: Adelaide Oval Redevelopment and Management Bill 2011
As the proponent of Major Developments in the Park Lands the Government is presiding over the greatest abuse of the Park Lands in the state's history.
On 18 May 2011 the Government tabled the disgraceful Adelaide Oval Redevelopment and Management Bill 2011 (here) in the House of Assembly.
See the Hansard for the Second Reading Speech here.

Adelaide Park Lands Authority opposes Adelaide Oval Redevelopment and Management Bill
At a Special Meeting on Thursday 26 May 2011 the Adelaide Park Lands Authority called on the State Government to withdraw its proposed Adelaide Oval legislation, objecting to the Bill's purpose of permitting "unfettered commercial development to the detriment of the Park Lands", see the Adelaide Park Lands Authority's Adelaide Oval Media Release here, and APLA Board Member Gunta Groves' 'News from the Adelaide Park Lands Authority No.17' here.

Adelaide Park Lands Preservation Association opposes Adelaide Oval Bill
See the Park Lands News June 2011 with a 'McAdelaide Stadium' article here (PDF 1.13MB, see pages 4,5,10).
This latest Government attack seeks to:

• grab Park Lands by vesting in the Minister an 'Adelaide Oval Core Area', comprising Adelaide Oval, parts of Creswell Garden and Pennington Garden West, the southern carpark on War Memorial Drive, and a piece of Park Lands on the northern boundary of Adelaide Oval;
• authorise the Minister to grant a lease of up to 80 years to the Adelaide Oval SMA Limited;
• set aside the Development Act 1993 and Adelaide Park Lands Act 2005, by granting blanket pre-approval for any development within the Adelaide Oval Core Area, including in parts of Creswell Garden and Pennington Garden West;
• force the Adelaide City Council to grant a licence to the Minister for an 'Adelaide Oval Licence Area' comprising all of the Park Lands bounded by King William Rd, Pennington Tce, Montefiore, and War Memorial Drive (excluding the 'Adelaide Oval Core Area', Next Generation and Memorial Drive Tennis Club);
• authorise the Minister, or any person authorised by the Minister, to carry out works on the Park Lands subject to the licence, including excavation, changing the form of the land, and forming paths and access roads;
• authorise the Minister to use the 'Adelaide Oval Licence Area' for car parking, access, any other ancillary use including providing 'facilities' for playing sport and and other activity authorised by regulation; and
• set aside the Local Government Act 1999 and Community Land Management Plan and remove mandatory requirements for public consultation and lease and licence time limits.

NEW THREAT: Victoria Park Broad-Acre Land Clearance
Adelaide City Council's decision, on 27 April 2011, to award a construction contract for new exotic turf sports pitches that require mulching, maceration and composting of thousands of Victoria Park's remnant native plants.

Online exhibition: Trashed or Treasured?
The Adelaide Park Lands have the potential to meet State, National and World Heritage criteria. Celebrating the resilience of William Light's plan of the City of Adelaide and its Park Lands 175 years after he was appointed Surveyor-General for South Australia, this online exhibition explores whether the Park Lands have been trashed or treasured in the last quarter of a century here.

VICTORIA SQUARE DRAFT MASTER PLAN
A PDF of APPA's submission for the public consultation may be found here.

More LAND GRABS proposed!
Alienated Park Lands west of the Morphett Street Bridge are being coveted by the Convention Centre for extended convention facilities and for another hotel. Promoters of major sports also want a stadium built to rival AAMI Stadium. Now the Rann government wants it for a hospital. more

LABOR'S EMPTY PROMISES
Political parties give all manner of undertakings when in Opposition and especially when an election is looming. Go to Hot Topics to find out about the ‘policies’ and ‘undertakings’ of the Rann Labor Government when it was in Opposition and going into the 2002 State Election.