Department for Education officials told Adelaide city councillors last night that 1800sqm of Adelaide Park Lands was needed to accommodate the expanding Adelaide Botanic High School, with the government seeking a land swap to seal the deal.
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Independent, Greens and Labor politicians this week pledged to save a pair of century-old London Plane trees located near Lot Fourteen on one of the CBD's leafiest streets.
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This week, Adelaide city councillors discussed a range of environmental topics, spanning new waste collection infrastructure in Rundle Mall, a potential funding boost for the Park Land’s disc golf course, and protesters trying to save two Frome Road trees from the axe.
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Renewal SA informed Adelaide city councillors last night they would remove two substantial trees from one of the city's leafiest boulevards as part of continuing landscaping developments at the North Terrace innovation precinct.
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Elected members have gone in to bat for Nellie Raminyemmerin Frome Park, which looks set to be swallowed by an expanding Adelaide Botanic High School, with the Lord Mayor instructed to write to all South Australian political parties opposing any development in the park.
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Adelaide City Council administration has warned councillors proposed developments along the Riverbank “may affect” the park lands' National Heritage Listing. Councillors voted not to oppose the projects but to work with State Government to “inform [their] delivery”.
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The City of Adelaide spent $47,450 on carbon offset credits in the 2020-21 financial year, almost double what it spent over the 2013-14 and 2014-15 financial years.
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South Australian Greens politician Mark Parnell has called on the State Government to prioritise trees over concrete as “the city is getting hotter and climate change is making things worse”.
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