Filed under: 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide, Barossa, Biodiversity, Concordia, Development, Environment, Gawler, Habitat, Paul Holloway, Planning, South Australia, Sustainability, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Pacific, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: Barossa Regional Land-Use Study, Concordia, Development, Environmental Impacts, farming land protection, rural land protection, SA Carbon Neutral Pretenders, Uban Pacific
Why would the government choose to house 15,000 people in Concordia when one of its own studies as far back as 1997 in this
Rural land assessment 1997 concluded that most of Concordia had ‘class 1′ ‘high productive potential’ ‘requiring only simple management practices to maintain productivity’. Here’s something that is sustainable without having to try!
Filed under: Biodiversity, Development, Paul Holloway, Planning, South Australia, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: Gawler East, Delfin Lend Lease, DPA, Gawler Council, 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: Barossa, Biodiversity, Development, Environment, Gawler, Planning, South Australia, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: consultation, Gawler East, Lend Lease, Planning, sustanability, 30 Year Plan, gawler, study, Uban Sprawl
The Barossa Council has currently withdrawn it’s legal action against the State Government regarding the UGB so they can sit down and talk. It is a shame that the threat of legal action is one of the few ways that the Government will take community concerns seriously.
At the moment it is unsure what the final outcome of the negations between the State Government and The Barossa Council will be, but it is tipped that the Council would prefer a separate town in behind Concordia if urban expansion has to go ahead in this region. Although this may appear to be a more palatable scenario to development in Kalbeeba and Concordia it still raises many worrying issues.For example the effects of traffic in Gawler, in particular along Lyndoch Road, the impact on infrastructure, the environmental impact, the cost of a north eastern by pass etc.
It is also noted that the Government and the Barossa Council will be undertaking studies on some of these very issues. It is hoped that a thorough assessment and analysis be undertaken before any final decisions is made.
On the issue of the Gawler East development it is also hoped that a thorough analysis of the proposed development is undertaken. Again the issue of traffic on Calton Road and then into Murray Street must be addressed. The social and environmental effects must also be considered.
The community has always asked that time be taken to think about the issues around urban growth. In the first instance it must be determined that urban expansion in our region is the best option for the State.
It appears on the surface, that decisions have been made about urban expansion and new development, while solutions to problems that may follow, have yet to be addressed.
Filed under: Barossa, Biodiversity, Development, Environment, Gawler, Habitat, Mike Rann, Paul Holloway, Planning, Politics, Sustainability, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: Water use and reuse, Environmental Impacts, Public Lecture, Inconvenient Truths for SA State Cabinet, Lend Lease, Planning, sustanability, 30 Year Plan, gawler, Gawler East
Great to see there are some people out there who are joining the dots between climate change, urban sprawl and water security!
There’s to be a public lecture upstairs at the Gawler Arms on Thursday 7th February, 7.30pm:
Speakers are
Michael Doherty, giving former US Vice President Al Gore’s global warming talk
Paul Downton, Award-winning architect, on the environmental impact of urban sprawl
Chris Marles, Manager Commercial Development SA Water, on managing water use and retention in a sustainable way during the planning process
Hope they’ve invited some Ministers!
Filed under: Environment, Gawler, Habitat, Planning, Politics, South Australia, Sustainability, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl, ugb | Tags: Carbon Neutrality, Carbon Neutral, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, State Cabinet, Mike Rann, Paul Holloway, SA Carbon Neutral Pretenders, Lend Lease, Planning, sustanability, 30 Year Plan, gawler, Gawler East
How very short-sighted and disappointing that Minister Holloway has decided not only to extend the urban growth boundary but throw in an extra 79 Ha at Evanston Gardens without any consultation whatsoever!
We read with amusement yesterday that Mike Rann is aiming to make his state cabinet ‘carbon neutral’. He is quoted as saying that cabinet ministers produce an estimated 3,000 tonnes of greenhouses gases a year. Hang on a minute – what about all the extra carbon emissions emanating from their decision to allow thousands of fringe houses which will only be accessible by car?
If the state government were seriously concerned about carbon emissions they would have calculated the ‘true carbon cost’ of extending the urban growth boundary into areas like Concordia and Gawler East, where houses will be far from the city and unserviced by public transport. How different would that decision be with some ‘carbon-transparency’ involved?
‘Consultation’ without asking the public what they think, ‘Carbon Neutrality’ divorced from the consequences of cabinet decisions – At the moment it’s all just empty rhetoric and media spin from Mike Rann’s brigade of ‘Carbon-Neutral Pretenders’ aka State Cabinet.
