In The News

Erin Jones, City Editor for The Advertiser and Sunday Mail, wrote a piece titled Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council plans Adelaide’s biggest rates rise on 19th May 2025.

In the article she wrote:

An eastern suburbs council is proposing a 9.49 per cent rate rise as it combats higher than normal building costs and finishes construction of a $60m swimming pool.
Norwood, Payneham & St Peters Council has proposed the highest residential rate increase of any metropolitan council, on the back of a 7 per cent rate increase the previous financial year.

InDaily reported on the Dunstan By-Election Meet the Candidate Forum in an article titled What’s on the minds of voters in Dunstan?

On the 20 March 2024, David Simmons broke the news that the estimated cost to redevelop the Payneham Memorial Swimming Centre has blown out from $20 million to $60 million.

Revealed today by InDaily, the Payneham Memorial Swimming Centre is now estimated to cost $60 million – up from $20 million originally announced in 2021.

Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo has written an opinion piece titled Low density living is not the answer in InDaily.

As a likely future entrant into the housing market, I think that rumours of the demise of this lifestyle are greatly exaggerated — and that’s a shame. Low-density housing is not a viable solution for the complex demographic and social challenges which Adelaide faces now and in the future.

Response
There is a detailed response in NIMBY Protests Put Homes Out Reach.

Evonne Moore (SPRA Spokesperson) has written an opinion piece, titled Adelaide’s low-density lifestyle under threat published in InDaily on 5th June 2013.