Adelaide's suburbs must adapt to change - or we'll end up in poignant stasis

“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.

Walker's Buckland Park housing development given three-year extension

EXCLUSIVE | After more than five months of negotiations between the State Government and Walker Corporation, the long-delayed Buckland Park housing project has been given a three-year extension to its development approval.

The Willunga Escarpment from the top of Blewett Springs: gradually growing more mansions... Photo: Philip White

Protecting what matters in Australia's party capital

Wine writer Philip White considers life in Australia’s new party capital – Adelaide’s southern suburbs – and discovers we still have the same problems as California’s Napa Valley.

SA councils given reprieve from e-planning payments

South Australia’s local councils have been granted a 12 month reprieve from paying fees for the State Government’s new e-planning system.

$2 million 'virtual' Adelaide to help sell higher density

The State Government is set to go out to tender for a detailed 3D model of Adelaide’s CBD, inner city and part of the western suburbs which will be used to plan higher density and allow the public to visualise and interact with proposed changes.