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Defeated Adelaide City Council candidates Sandy Wilkinson and Stephanie Johnston say the lack of councillors with planning qualifications on the new council could endanger the city’s heritage.
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Adelaide City Council candidates have condemned the State Government and the council for what they say is a disrespectful relocation of Australia’s oldest World War I memorial from the south park lands.
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The SA president of the Local Government Association says she will be formally reporting allegations that a fellow Adelaide city councillor used council staff and public resources to gather candidates for the upcoming election.
City councillors have accused Planning Minister Stephan Knoll of misunderstanding key North Adelaide heritage regulations, even as they lobby him for new concessions to protect the historical buildings they say are under threat.
Several city councillors have endorsed automatically waiving parking fines for first offenders – plus forming a panel that would be empowered to cancel tickets on “compassionate” grounds.
An Adelaide City Councillor broke the law last year by failing to declare a conflict of interest, the State Ombudsman has found.
The Adelaide City Council was legally prevented from making any decision on a modification to King William Street and a parklands events policy at its meeting last night because too many councillors declared conflicts of interest and excluded themselves from voting.
