The SA Architects Institute has criticised recent approvals of hotels at listed city heritage sites, warning the state’s planning system risks “falling apart” and becoming “meaningless”.
The developer behind a new 21-storey, $160 million hotel on a local heritage site on Pirie Street says he wanted to retain the listed frontage but was told “it just wouldn’t work”, as the State Government waves through planning consent.
A 21-storey, $160 million Pirie Street hotel that will force the demolition of a local heritage-listed facade is set to be approved by a state government planning body, despite the developer saying the Government Architect is “muddying the waters” with “unnecessary and inappropriate” objections.
City pub The King’s Head is set to reopen as a bar and pizzeria in October while a number of other South Australian pubs remain on the market.