Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Calton Road, Community Views, consultation, Delfin, Delfin Lend Lease, Development, DPA, Environmental Impacts, Gawler East, gawler east quarry, Minister Holloway, Paul Holloway, Planning, SA Carbon Neutral Pretenders, Traffic, Traffic Movements, Uban Sprawl, Urban Growth Boundary, Water use and reuse
Write to the Development Panel! Have your say about Gawler East traffic and infrastructure concerns. It may be your last chance to be heard!
Once was Green
Filed under: Biodiversity, Development, Paul Holloway, Planning, South Australia, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: Delfin Lend Lease, DPA, Gawler Council, Gawler East, Planning
Opportunity for community to have a say.
On Monday night, the 22nd of June, a community meeting was convened at the Gawler Arms by members of the Urban Growth Boundary Community Forum Committee to look at the implications surrounding the recently released DPA for the proposed Gawler East Development.
The meeting was attended by about 80 people, including representatives from both major political parties.
Meeting Convenor Mr Paul Koch, said that the night gave local residents the opportunity to look in more detail about the implications of the development.
“Views on the night ranged from concerns about traffic, the social impact, increased demand on already stretched services through to the appropriateness of the site for a major development and whether the community has an effective voice in the consultation process.”
People at the meeting were urged to put in a submission to the State Government by the 16th of July as this will be last formal opportunity they have to influence the decision. People should indicate if they wish to speak at the public hearing on the 30th of July.
Mr Koch also said that “ people were encouraged to talk to their friends and neighbours to look closely at the issues, as the development will have a major impact on all people living in Gawler, not just the people living in Gawler East and Gawler South“.
Writing a submission
It is best to write your own, but a form letter is available with space in the centre of the page for you to use. Click base form letter and save, then remove the instruction and then type in your concerns and save it. Any further questions please e-mail us at blogawler@gmail.com.
Base form letter provides a pdf version of the framework for a submission for you to write on – open it up and print it off.
If you want to speak at the public hearing on 30th July you must indicate this in your submission.
Sending your submission.
Submissions need to arrive at the DPA Committee by 16th July.
You can post them to
Presiding Member, Development Policy Advisory Committee C/- Department of Planning and Local Government Level 3, 136 North Tce, Adelaide SA 5000email them to dpac@saugov.sa.gov.au
or place them in a collection box located at Crosby’s of Gawler, Gawler Cinemas, Willaston Bookshop and the Cheek Avenue Super Deli. Submissions will be collected and ‘bulk mailed’ off.
If you need any help with your submissions you can contact Helen Wilmore on 85 223019 who will be able to give you a hand.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Delfin Lend Lease, DPA, Gawler Council, Gawler East, Planning
The recent release of the Gawler East Development Plan Amendment (DPA) has finally given the community the opportunity to look closely at the proposal.
The DPA gives a very broad overview of the types of development that would be permitted in different distinct zones across the site.
To help the community start to get an understanding of the DPA and the approval process, the Gawler Town Council held a very successful information session on the 10th of June. This session outlined the background and policy content within the DPA. Throughout the session it was reinforced that the community has an opportunity to make a submission to the State Government by the 16th of July. When making a submission you can also request to make a presentation on the 30th July.
Unfortunately, the session did not give the opportunity for the community to ‘drill down’ and look at the implications of different policies outlined in the DPA. In effect, what will be the on-the-ground impacts on traffic, access to services, environmental impacts etc. To help the community come to grips with the actual implication of the DPA on the future of Gawler, a community forum has been organised for the 22nd of June.
It will be held at the Gawler Arms, starting at 7.30. It will take the form of a workshop where people can break up into groups and discuss the issues they are concerned about. There will also be people with particular expertise available who will be able to provide some interpretation.
It is hoped that information gained from the workshop will help to frame a submission to the Government that reflects your concerns.
The approval process for the DPA has now moved into a ‘political phase’. It is important that the Government receives a clear message about the concerns residents have around this proposed development and the out comes it will have on the town of Gawler.
Other opportunities you will have to express your concerns include a petition now circulating in the community. It essentially asks the Government to delay making a decision on approval until community issues are fully addressed. Also a ‘form letter’ will be delivered to each house in Gawler. This will help you to record and make your concerns heard about the development.
We encourage all members of the community to take the opportunity to look closely at the issues surrounding the DPA and the impacts they will have on the town of Gawler.
The policies outlined in the DPA will have long-term and irreversible impacts for Gawler. It is important to have your voice heard by the Government before the 16th of July.
If your require further information contact
Scott Fraser on 85233 220 or Paul Koch on 85232859.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Delfin, Gawler East, Lend Lease, Sunnydale Avenue, Traffic
KNOCK-ON EFFECT.
The Delfin publicity machine has been working overtime recently, producing glossy plans and rolling out the promises.
The devil is always in the detail and one of the first of these is the effect on the residents of Sunnydale Avenue. It was pronounced recently that their street would become part of the gleaming new collector road between Lyndoch and Calton Roads and into the new development.
The residents held a meeting recently where they voiced their outrage about this rural road being turned into a major carriageway, whisking cars and trucks through and around Gawler.
The promise of new kerbs and gutters are no consolation for turning their lives upside down with increased noise, fumes and safety concerns.
Be under no illusions that urban growth around Gawler, with the potential of tripling the population, will have major negative effects on the whole town. Sunnydale Avenue is one of the first examples.
This is the time to demand that the Government show leadership and invest resources into detailed investigations and modelling of the effects of urban growth on the town.
It would also be an act of openness and true community consultation if the Government and the developer released studies as they were completed, not just at the last minute which creates a flood of information. By doing this it would create an environment for open, ongoing discussion and dialogue instead of the situation we now have leading to community uncertainty and unrest.
Only after all investigations have been completed and discussed will we be anywhere near understanding the long-term effects and be able decide if it is feasible and/or reasonable to approve development plans.
The Government should stand up for the community and not be held to the timetables of developers and their commercial interests.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: David Ridgway, Delfin Lend Lease, Environment, Gawler East, transport
Press release.
David Ridgway visits Gawler to talk about urban growth.
Mr David Ridgway, Opposition spokesperson on Urban Development and Planning visited Gawler last week after an invitation from the Urban Growth Boundary Community Forum Committee.
A spokesperson for the Committee said that members outlined community concerns in the Barossa, Gawler and Playford areas about proposed urban growth. Issues discussed included the lack of appropriate consultation before decisions were announced, lack of information about the potential impact of urban expansion on local communities and concern that the timing of decisions being directed by political expediency rather than based on solid planning.
Issues noted of particular relevance to the proposed developments at Gawler East and Concordia involving Gawler and Barossa councils included uncertainities about water, power and sewerage infrastructure, issues of traffic build up affecting the Gawler area, environmental and heritage issues, impacts on nearby river ecosystems and the need to protect quality rural land from urban development.
Mr Ridgway outlined the directions that would guide Opposition policies on the issues and particularly stressed concerns about lack of transport and other infrastructure and protection of productive rural land.
Spokesperson for Urban Growth Boundary Community Forum, Mr Paul Koch said that the Committee appreciated Mr Ridgeway’s involvement and would continue to press all political parties in the State to understand of the depth of concern there is in the local community and to respond with policies that protected community interests.
Filed under: Environment, Gawler, Planning, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl | Tags: Community consultation, Delfin, Gawler East, Lend Lease, transparency
Increasing the community is raising concerns about urban growth and it’s long-term impacts.
The worrying trend though, is that developers are not releasing information about the plans they have. It increasingly looks like developers will simply push their plans onto communities with little regard for the wider, overall impact that new developments have.
In the Gawler East development we can see this being played out. There are sufficient indications that the developer has drawn up detailed plans for the area. It can reasonably be assumed that they will plan to maximise their profits with the possibility of over 4000 building allotments. This translates to around 10,000 more people in Gawler. Add in the new developments in the pipeline of around another 10,000 to be housed in Southern Gawler and the population doubles in a very short period of time. Our current population is around 20,000.
What will be the impacts on our community with this sudden increase of our population? Without proper studies and assessments we are only guessing.
When developers plan new estates they rarely look beyond their boundaries to impacts population increase have on the wider community.
In particular, everyone living in Gawler understands the problems we currently have with traffic.
This is an ongoing concern that has been echoed by a number of different groups and organisations in the community. For example the Gawler Business Development Board (Bunyip April 10th 2008) have identified traffic management issues in Gawler as a serious problem that needs to be resolved.
Does any one seriously believe our current traffic managements problems will be solved by doubling the population of Gawler?
There is an urgent need to stand back from this rush to develop and undertake detailed independent assessments of the long-term effects of this new development.
We as a community need to fully understand what will be the costs, environmentally and socially as well as the day-to-day impacts on our lives from this development.
It needs to be firstly established if having a development at Gawler East is in fact feasible or desirable. There appears to be an assumption that it is, simply because a line has been drawn on a map
At the moment the whole process does not seem to be open to the community to assess.
The developer will want to maximise the returns to its shareholders. The community wants to be happy that this profit is not paid for through its loss.
