Filed under: Barossa, Breaking News Locally, Development, Environment, Gawler, Planning, Politics, South Australia, Sustainability, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: Calton Road, Gawler East, Infrastructure, Lend Lease, Planning, sustanability, 30 Year Plan, gawler, Traffic Movements
Those 30,000 extra car movements a day on Calton Rd are going to make getting across to that playground a little trickier!
At the forum conducted by the Local Member this Monday there were no reasonable solutions provided for the projected increase in traffic. In fact it was suggested that the majority of traffic movements in Gawler are by residents carrying out their normal daily activities such as school drop offs and pick ups, shopping, accessing services etc. An increase in population around Gawler will only add the the already dangerously high traffic pressures. Proposed by-passes would not greatly reduce the traffic pressure. Answers to why Gawler is the ideal site for urban expansion are needed, not half- baked ideas about possible solutions.
Filed under: Barossa, Breaking News Locally, Development, Environment, Gawler, Planning, Politics, South Australia, Sustainability, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Growth Boundary Forum Committee, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: gawler east quarry, rural lands protection, Lend Lease, Planning, sustanability, 30 Year Plan, gawler, Gawler East
Planning SA’s original public consultation document on extending the Urban Growth Boundary extolled the virtues of the idea in Gawler East because it was all about rehabilitating the quarry. However, when you look at an aerial shot of the Gawler East area – there’s an awful lot of rural land surrounding the quarry that’s been included in the proposed area (see land inside black outline)!
