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: 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide, Barossa, Biodiversity, Development, Environment, Gawler, Paul Holloway, Planning, South Australia, Sustainability, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl | Tags: 30 Year Plan, 30 Year Plan Greater Adelaide, Gawler, Planning, Public Submissions, Transparency in Government and Development Decisions
Apparently the State Government is not planning to publish submissions on the 30 Year Plan. So in the interests of public debate and transparency blogawler has approached people who we know have made submissions.
Please find attached a copy of the submissions of Sue Coldbeck and A Shackley and the views of Graham Brookman.
We hope to add to the submissions as we collect them. Mark Parnell MLC has also made some observations about the population projections in the 30 year plan and conflicts of interest see http://markparnell.org.au/speech.php?speech=798
More submissions: Paul Koch for the Gawler Urban Growth Boundary Forum Committee.
Helen Wilmore for the Cheek Avenue Area Residents Group
The Gawler Environment and Heritage Association has also provided their submission.
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: Environment, Gawler, Planning, Urban Growth Boundary, Urban Sprawl | Tags: Community consultation, transparency, Lend Lease, Planning, sustanability, 30 Year Plan, gawler, Gawler East
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.
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!
