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Prospect and Churchill Roads would want to return to double-lane road all the way - both experience traffic jams daily already. South Australia's road infrastructure is a joke!

Between the main north railway line and Churchill Road from Park Terrace Ovingham right through to Dry Creek should be allocated as a future extension of the northern expressway. No more building or redevelpoment should be permitted in this corridor and one day when the time is right buy out the remaining properties so the expressway can go ahead. Without a direct access northern link to the Park Terrace ring road that bypasses all inner northern suburban roads through Prospect & Enfield council areas, will result in an even bigger traffic jam as years go by. This is yet another example of a 30 year plan that has no proper long term vision. Also a start date for the rail and freight cirrdir from Dry Creek running west fo Pt Wakefield Rd to Virginia needs to be announced as part of this 30 year plan.

Prince George wrote:There's a ludicrous article on this on the Advertiser today - Fears over rising urban crowding

"GREAT swathes" of suburban Adelaide will be turned into high-density housing if councils support the State Government's 30-year plan, warns Upper House Opposition Leader David Ridgway.
Prospect is set to become the first council to formally back the plan, after it instructed staff this week to enter into an agreement with the Department of Planning and Local Government.
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Prospect's agreement will result in the re-zoning of the transport corridors of Churchill and Prospect roads.

Mayor David O'Loughlin said re-zoning would include high-density housing "on one or two sites" and low-rise medium density development along the rest of the corridors. He said the 30-year plan was "very well aligned" with council's own master plan.

But Mr Ridgway accused the council of rushing through the agreement before local government elections in November. ... "Areas under consideration by the Prospect council mean from 800m west of the Gawler railway line to 400m east of Main North Road will be subject to high-density residential development," he said. "The community aren't aware of that.

"It will be just great swathes ... covered with high-density residential."

The comments there are mixed between predictable "this is a future slum" opponents and "more density means less lost farmland" support. I've dropped a comment on there, and I noticed a "Will from Adelaide" - is that you Will? Let's get some more positive feeling there!

Will wrote:Yeah that was me. When I read that article I felt really sad, that there are people who still dont understand we cannot have our suburbs expanding further and further out.

I understand that there are people who still want to live on quarter acre blocks, but there are still many people (such as myself) who still live on quarter acre blocks because there is no choice available.

Will wrote:Yeah that was me. When I read that article I felt really sad, that there are people who still dont understand we cannot have our suburbs expanding further and further out.

Wayno wrote:

Will wrote:Yeah that was me. When I read that article I felt really sad, that there are people who still dont understand we cannot have our suburbs expanding further and further out.

People are fearful of 'higher density' as they believe it means future slums in their neighborhood. This is simply because they know no difference (ignorance, not stupidity). Our populous are not widely traveled nor educated on such matters (and it's not just an Adelaide idiosyncrasy).

IMHO the state govt must take responsibility here and better sell/communicate the opportunity offered by increased urbanisation. A few long-term stances and campaigns should be mounted: 1) place the countryside on a pedestal, 2) firmly draw urban boundaries and don't cross them, 2) work to overcome public scepticism & distaste for high-density living, 3) get going asap with building a TOD (bowden) as proof of what can be achieved.

Prince George wrote:I have thought that it would be cool to make a TV series built around people living in a compact kind of mid-density neighbourhood. Something like that would help build some positive associations for people, and help give people the idea that ordinary, everyday people (like them!) could happily live there.

Bunnings Warehouse, a hardware store chain with stores in Australia and New Zealand, received approval for a new store in Islington, South Australia.

The new warehouse, which will open by early 2012, will be located at the meeting point of Churchill Road and Regency road in Islington.

It will offer specialized trade supplies and home improvement items.

Bunnings will invest over $25m for the new store. It will be spread over 3 hectares and will include a main warehouse, timber trade areas, nursery and car parking area.

The new store is part of a 24 hectare new retail development for Islington. The development includes bulky goods and hardware tenancies, a major supermarket, shopping centre and a mix of other retail centers.

The development will provide 90 new job opportunities.

Bunnings is owned by Wesfarmers Limited based in Perth, Western Australia.