Housing Developments | Northern Suburbs

[crawf]

Future suburb of Adelaide?

[Omicron]

Is there some sort of Really Quite Awful New Suburb That's Miles Away From Anywhere You'd Actually Want To Go competition that I missed?

[AtD]

More car dependant greenfields sprawl.

[Shuz]

Is there some sort of Really Quite Awful New Suburb That's Miles Away From Anywhere You'd Actually Want To Go competition that I missed?

No kidding. Off the top of my head I can think of...

Buckland Park - 15,000
Two Wells - 2,500
Gawler "Super Town" - 30,000

Just a bit shy of 50,000 (47,500) all up, but still - I guess if we want 2 million by 2050 (which we're on track to achieve by 2036) These people are gunna have to be put somewhere. What I hate about this though is both Two Wells and the Super Town are outside of the Urban Growth Boundary. What's the f_____ point in having it there in the first place if all these are just going to go beyond it?

[crawf]

I thought the Buckland Park project had been axed?

[Shuz]

According to Planning SA, project seems alive and well?
http://www.planning.sa.gov.au/index.cfm?objectid=9D9A8C1E-F203-0D46-A2EB81B13562BF61

[Prince George]

There was two different developments each by the name of "Buckland Park"; the older one is gone, the newer one is not.

[Hooligan]

Ripping up prime agricultural land for housing = Yum

[fabricator]

Oh well we can always relocate the farms to the unviable semi arid areas.

[rhino]

Do you mean to tell me that there's something that Melbourne has done (created huge housing towns (Cranbourne, Pakenham, Melton, Werribee) on the outskirts of the Metro Area) that you guys actually don't want for Adelaide??? I'm astounded! Reading these forums is usually so "Melbourne has it - We should have it!"

I'm not totally against the Two Wells development - it really depends on whether it's designed as a suburb of Adelaide (which I am against), or as growing the town (which I have no problem with). This would involve industry re-locating out there, or new industies starting out there.

[skyliner]

You know it really gets ugly when the main roads through such suburbs become lined with timber sound barrier walls - which later go black from weathering and are 'decorated' by graffiti as well - you see nothing but kilometres of walls - take in Bris. suburbs for example. I don't know of any such walls yet in Adelaide and hope they never come - aesthetic pollution!! Worse that rows of slum houses. No good for using landmarks to find your way around either.

ADELAIDE - TOWARDS A GREATER CITY SKYLINE

[drsmith]

To see planning for future urban sprawl at it's finest check out the Marmion Avenue extension (on nearmap) north of Perth to Yanchep.

While it is currently single carriageway across undeveloped bushland the land for the second carriageway has allready been cleared and roundabouts build for future street connections.
http://www.nearmap.com/

While freeway and railway corridoors into the Perth CBD can be extended the freeway inparticular suffers from severe congestion during peak periods. At least the area to de developed is not productive farmland.

[Port Adelaide Fan]

Urban sprawl pushes Adelaide past 100km
Article from: The Advertiser
DANIEL WILLS
January 04, 2010 12:01am

URBAN sprawl is stretching Adelaide to breaking point and the inner city and surrounding suburbs must be the primary focus for development, leaders warn.

As the State Government prepares to release Adelaide's most significant planning document in decades, development experts and mayors have called for a higher-density CBD and restrained suburban sprawl.

This means revising building codes and allowing more multi-storey residential developments in the city centre.

The provision and cost of infrastructure, from power to water, community facilities and public transport, is under strain because of the continual sprawl of the city from north to south.

Development experts have also demanded denser living in the inner-metropolitan area to make full use of existing infrastructure and minimise the environmental cost of long-distance travel.

The city now spans almost 100km between Gawler and Sellicks Beach.

30-YEAR PLAN FOR GREATER ADELAIDE: Click here to view the government website.

Gawler Mayor Brian Sambell said the town already was dealing with a population boom it was not equipped to handle.

"Our main street was built for the horse and cart; it wasn't built for 25,000 cars a day like we're having at the moment," Mr Sambell said.

"We're pushed to the limit, definitely, already."

The State Government last week announced "interim" changes to the draft 30-year Plan for Greater Adelaide and redirected thousands of new residents planned for the Barossa and Gawler region to the northern suburbs.

Lord Mayor Michael Harbison also has welcomed a swelling in the CBD population increase target by 11,000 to 27,300 but said the goal remained "modest".

He said the CBD's population must expand rapidly to support peak business services ahead of the promised mining boom.

"There's every chance we won't benefit from that mining boom if we don't make a real effort to add value. There's a chance the fly-in-fly-out will come from Melbourne," he said.

Urban Development Institute of Australia SA executive director Terry Walsh said demand for suburban living would remain high but efficient use of infrastructure was maximised in denser cities.

"Adelaide has a wonderful asset in the parklands, but compare it with other great open spaces in cities throughout the world and they rate low," he said. "Let's encourage people to live nearby, within the CBD . . . so they can treat the parklands as their respected backyards."

Australian Institute of Architects SA chapter president Tim Horton said now was "the right time to ask what we want our city to be in the future". He offered New York's West Village, dominated by townhouses and five-to-six-storey apartment blocks, as a model.

Urban Development and Planning Minister Paul Holloway said "most" of the forecast growth would be restricted to the city's current borders.

"By putting a renewed focus on infill development, the plan will make the most of existing infrastructure but, just as importantly, put people's homes close to where they work, where they shop and where they can access all the necessary services," he said.

Adelaide now

[rhino]

A kinda related article from today's Adelaide Now:

Adelaide's rivers protected from urban sprawl
DANIEL WILLS, POLITICAL REPORTER
January 06, 2010 10:30am

PARKS along vital waterways will be protected to provide critical open space as Adelaide moves towards denser living, the State Government says.
Minister for Urban Development and Planning Paul Holloway said new legislation stopping the sale of land along the River Torrens, Dry Creek, Christies Creek and Gawler River would protect our riverways from urban sprawl.
He said plans to increase the density of residential development within the metropolitan area made retaining the integrity of key waterways "imperative".
"It is important for current and future South Australians that the open space along Adelaide's significant waterways is protected not only from the encroachment of urban sprawl but also the temptation to sell off government land to fund reckless spending promises," he said.
Mr Holloway says the Rann Government had spent more than $10 million upgrading key linear parks.
"These waterways provide important green corridors through the metropolitan area that help promote biodiversity and create a more attractive and liveable environment for our community," he said.
"Linear parks provide open space, encourage greater biodiversity within urban areas, provide cycling and pedestrian links within communities and create buffers between suburbs."

[Shuz]

SA Government approves new suburb at Buckland Park
Sarah Martin From: AdelaideNow February 04, 2010 11:08am

A $2 BILLION satellite city for Adelaide's north has been approved by the State Government.

Walker Corporation's Buckland Park development will take 25 years to complete and aims to house up to 33,000 people.

Walker Corporation's billionaire head, Lang Walker, is in Adelaide for the announcement by Planning Minister Paul Holloway this morning.

The first stage of the development will incorporate 600 residential allotments and a neighbourhood centre and is expected to be completed by 2014.

Mr Walker said he expected the project to create 2200 jobs a year in the construction sector.

``In addition to jobs created to construct the new community, by 2036 we also expect around 10,000 people will be employed in jobs at employment and centre precincts within Buckland Park, with the potential for a further 15,000 jobs to be indirectly generated within the economy,'' he said.

Minister Holloway said the approval had been granted with strict environmental conditions, including the retention of native vegetation along Gawler River.

Shouldn't this be in the Metropolitan Development thread? As it technically lies within the Adelaide Urban Growth Boundary.