The submission can be downloaded as a pdf.

Submissions close on 16 August 2024 and can be made on the Community Consultation page.

Firstly, SPRA would like to congratulate the council on improving public access to development application documents which are now consolidated into folders at the Town Hall.

In respect of the draft processes for improving access to meetings and documents SPRA would like to make the following comments about confidentiality provisions, council briefings, freedom of information, council meetings and budget information.

St Peters Residents Association submission to the Draft Urban Greening Strategy for Metropolitan Adelaide

This submission can be downloaded as a pdf for printing.

This Strategy is a planning document which includes targets and visions. The St Peters Residents Association (SPRA) is happy to comment on some of these but also considers it important to suggest concrete actions which could be taken to improve the greening of Adelaide.

SPRA responded to the Local Government Participation and Elections Review with a detailed response that covered many topics including:

• Council engagement with community
• Council meeting
• Nominating for council
• Elections including compulstory voting

We appreciate that household formation rate, as well as population growth, impacts on demand for new housing. However, community concern over population growth cannot forever be swept under the carpet. The forecasted need for an extra 300,000 dwellings in the Greater Adelaide region over the next 30 years demonstrates a need for a major increase in our current housing stock. Extra housing will be traded off against residential amenity, the natural environment, open space, agricultural land and the tourism attractions of this State.

A recent Conservation Council study estimated that Adelaide is losing about 75,000 trees a year. We submit that this is due to a range of factors including population growth, housing densification policy, life-style changes, a failure of the planning system to reserve space around built structures for vegetation and trees, weak legislative protection for existing trees, commercial development and powerline clearance. Government must encourage Council policies and tree species selection.