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The state’s planning body will again consider approving an eight-storey apartment block on The Parade after the developer altered the design following concerns about its “mass and bulk” – but the local council says it’s still “completely out of scale” with its surroundings.
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The state’s planning panel has told the developer behind a proposed eight-storey apartment block at Norwood to refine the design to “provide visual relief” from its “mass and bulk” to better suit The Parade’s character.
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UPDATED: An eight-storey apartment block proposed to be built behind heritage shopfronts on The Parade has been recommended for approval despite a six-storey local height limit and council and resident concerns it will “loom large” over Norwood.
A contentious upgrade of one of Norwood Parade’s busiest intersections is set to begin next week, with the State Government handing responsibility and $330,000 of taxpayer money to developers to oversee the project while the local council fights it in court.
UPDATED: A group of Norwood ratepayers, including a former State Government minister, are calling on the Norwood Payneham and St Peters Council to publicly reveal how much it has spent fighting the Government in the Supreme Court over a contentious Parade intersection upgrade.
A long-running dispute over a decision to ban right-hand turns at a busy Norwood Parade intersection could go before the Supreme Court, with opponents representing two of the retail strip’s biggest shopping centres threatening the Norwood Payneham & St Peters Council with legal action.
EXCLUSIVE: Norwood Payneham & St Peters councillors have rejected a push from their mayor to invite the Adelaide Football Club to build a new headquarters at the long-established Payneham Swimming Centre and a neighbouring reserve, and to keep the council discussion secret from the public.
