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skyliner wrote:After reading your information David I found that Adelaide's projected population for 30 yrs hence is 2m.with an increase of 560000 from now. Is it a fact that Adelaide now has 1 440 000. Currently I thought that it was well under 1 200 000 - where does your figure come from - surely not the Adelaide Statistical Division used by the ABS???

skyliner wrote:David, firstly, if at all possible, can you post these figures on this site when you get them - I/we would be most interested. Secondly, your second dot point in red speaks of greater Adelaide (the ABS region called the Adelaide Statistical Division?) being able to house 500 000 more people - it does not say 'will house....' This seems to be the foundation of your comments as to Adelaide's later population, much as I like this to be the case. Lastly, what are the parameters by which your figues are presented? There may be an anomaly as to 'sources of our sources' and as a result we may actually be on the same page.

Thanking your for your time and efforts to keep in touch here.

David's newsletter wrote:A Design Review Panel has been appointed to give critical and independent advice on the Masterplan design for Victoria Square. They are Catherin Bull, Philip Cox, Mads Gaardboe, Lawrence Nield and Malcolm Snow.

david wrote:Notes from Councillor David Plumridge - Issue 27
- Reconciliation Week
- Victoria Square
- Adelaide welcomes students
- Some recent decisions.......

NOTES FROM COUNCILLOR Issue 27.pdf

Will wrote:It is great that the ACC welcomes international students. Maybe this should be passed on to Councillor Wilkinson who appeared on TV last week saying that he would oppose further student apartments in the city because he thinks they will become slums in the future.

Victoria Park plan flop

by Adam Todd

VICTORIA Park’s long-awaited multi-million overhaul will likely be pruned to “grass and trees” after Town Hall dipped out on federal funding to help transform the former racetrack into a people’s park.

Lord Mayor Michael Harbison told the City Messenger this week the City Council had failed in its bid to secure $16 million from the Federal Government’s $550 million community infrastructure program.

“They said they’d run out of money in that particular program and had no money for Victoria Park,” he said.

Town Hall’s masterplan, announced in August last year and aimed at turning the 72 ha east parklands site into “one of the great urban parks of the world”, featured a plaza, wetlands, walking and bike trails, sports fields and a refurbished heritage grandstand.

The council set aside $4 million of its own money for the project, but budgeted for the remaining $12 million to be funded externally. “To get the whole thing done was on the assumption we’d get some help,” Mr Harbison said.

“But the broad strokes of it, which is the grass and trees, we can and will do just as soon as the SAJC is out of the way.

“$4 million means grass and trees but puts on the backburner too many buildings and so on.”

The City Council originally bid for $4 million from the Federal Government’s Regional and Local Community Infrastructure Program.

However, it upped its bid to $16 million the entire cost of the Victoria Park project in February when the fund was increased from $50 million to $550 million as part of the economic stimulus package.

Mr Harbison said the City Council would not seek private funding and also was unlikely to ask for State Government help.

“Our big focus where we hope to work with the State Government is Victoria Square,” he said.

Public consultation late last year revealed a clear majority of residents supported the City Council’s plan for Victoria Park, with only 16 per cent opposing it.

Meantime, the clean-up at Victoria Park is running months behind schedule.

As part of its agreement to leave the former racecourse, the South Australian Jockey Club (SAJC) agreed to pay for the demolition of the non-heritage grandstand, stables and the jockey and stewards rooms as well as the removal of track railings and judges towers.

In December last year, Town Hall said it expected work would start in January and take about three months.

Mr Harbison said there had been delays, but he was confident the park would be cleared by next month.

“It’s back on track again now, the SAJC has got a new contractor and the new board are keen to make a good impression so things are looking up there,” he said.

The post-Clipsal 500 clean-up has also taken longer than expected, with the last remnants of the V8 Supercar racetrack expected to be removed by next week.

AtD wrote:

Will wrote:It is great that the ACC welcomes international students. Maybe this should be passed on to Councillor Wilkinson who appeared on TV last week saying that he would oppose further student apartments in the city because he thinks they will become slums in the future.

Oh god... he didn't, did he? Here we have all three universities being swapped by a tsunami of new applications, and the benevolent Councilor Wilkinson tells them all to take their money and go to Sydney.

Broad sweeping statements shot from the hip like that do nothing to shake of Adelaide's backwards, anti-development image.