Adelaide loves to tout its global ‘liveability’ accreditations, and lately we’ve embraced aspirations to be a ‘Well City’ and a ‘National Park City’ – but how are we actually delivering on this much-celebrated reputation?
UPDATED: The State Government will this week set up a temporary hub with showers, toilets, tents and offices in the southern park lands to accommodate and provide support to about 50 people from remote Aboriginal communities who are sleeping rough.
A decade on from the first Adelaide Riverbank Masterplan, and in the light of relentless development proposals for this Adelaide park lands precinct, is it time for a new plan?
The UK selection body judging Adelaide’s bid to become a globally recognised National Park City will talk to park lands advocates who have criticised the move, saying community opposition could “potentially impede” the application.