Residents have expressed concern about excessive speed and dangerous driving along Richmond Streeet, Hackney. Richmond Street is extremely narrow, especially on the western end towards Hackney Road. Additionally, the footpaths are quite narrow and are often further restricted by vegetation growing out from the properties, causing pedestrians to step onto the carriageway itself. These footpaths are well used by many of those who use the Adelaide Caravan Park and who walk to and from the City through Botanic Park.

A petition requesting changes to slow traffic can be signed at FIX. Speciality Coffee shop.

SPRA have responded to the 2023-2024 Annual Business Plan & Budget.

Concerns raised include:

• Assumptions in budget (CPI: 2%, Borrowing rate: 2.4%)
• Net Financial Liability Ratio exceeding 100%
• $32.6 millon cost of Payneham Memorial Swimming Centre Redevelopment

InDaily have published an article about a high-rise development of nearly 200 apartments in twin tower blocks of 14 and 15 storeys is set to be built behind a closed state heritage listed hotel in Kent Town, after the project was approved by the state’s planning panel.

The committee has monitored the activities of your Council and reported on those activities which we believe would be of interest to members.
Focus areas have included:

• Maintaining and protecting the heritage of our buildings
• Traffic issues
• Perceived encroachment of properties onto public land, notably around the Billabong

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of the St Peters Residents Association held on Wednesday 22nd March at 7.30pm in the St Peters Banquet Hall, including the committee report.

This newsletter contains the following items:

• Spies, Secrets, Clandestine Operations and the St Peters Town Hall like something from a John le Carre novel!’ - a talk by Historian Denise Schumann
• AGM on Wednesday 22 March at 7.30pm
• SPRA is 50 Years Old
• Submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Adelaide's Urban Forest
• Our Local Councillors
• Traffic Matters
• St Peters Street Streetscape Upgrade

Wednesday 22 March at 7.30pm, in the St Peters Banquet Hall

Spies, Secrets, Clandestine Operations and the St Peters Town Hall like something from a John le Carre novel!’
In late December 1962, on a scorcher of a day, an attractive woman waited outside the St Peters Town Hall, a double agent, she was part of an ASIO sting to uncover a ring of Soviet spies. But who was really watching who?

A recent Conservation Council study estimated that Adelaide is losing about 75,000 trees a year. We submit that this is due to a range of factors including population growth, housing densification policy, life-style changes, a failure of the planning system to reserve space around built structures for vegetation and trees, weak legislative protection for existing trees, commercial development and powerline clearance. Government must encourage Council policies and tree species selection.

The submission is available as a PDF.

General Comments

General loss of detail in the Code compared to Development Plans

The Code has over-simplified policy requirements, which means that a planner assessing a development application has less options for negotiating good design outcomes.