Opinion
“Greedy” developers aren’t changing Adelaide’s neighbourhoods – it’s a response to changing community preferences, argues Michael Lennon, the chair of the State Planning Commission.
Local
The Marshall Government’s new statewide planning overhaul will be delayed by at least three months after stakeholders raised concerns about the pace of the rollout, InDaily can reveal.
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UPDATED: Three heritage row cottages on Wright Street could be partially demolished to make way for a 16-storey hotel – but State Government planning rules mean the public won’t be consulted before development approval is granted.
South Australia’s property and development industries have warned that a push by state Labor to impose minimum car parking requirements on new residential developments would increase costs to homebuyers.
An ambiguity in the State Government’s planning guidelines is likely to allow Calvary Hospital to demolish an historic North Adelaide mansion as part of its multi-million dollar expansion, the Adelaide City Council says.
A new design guide under incoming statewide planning reforms laments the widespread loss of privacy and vegetation in Adelaide’s suburbs over recent decades and argues for the interests of pedestrians over private transport users.
More than 100 hectares in and around Victor Harbor will be rezoned for development that will see the establishment of new Aldi, Coles and Bunnings stores among a glut of new housing, in a sweeping change Planning Minister John Rau insists will not compromise the heritage character of “the old town”.
