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Ministerial Statement, 23 November 2011 - Capital City Committee

Premier Jay Weatherill, following his first meeting as the Capital City Committee Chair, made a statement in Parliament describing the Committee as having a pivotal role in revitalising the city, and reaffirming the Committee’s commitment to work together on a real change agenda to enliven the city of Adelaide, including:

Activating side streets, laneways and spaces between buildings
Finding new uses for vacant buildings, including heritage buildings
Reducing red tape to help new enterprise flourish in the CBD
Promoting shared use roads
Increasing the population in the city.

The Premier confirmed the Committee had decided to target a priority zone – bounded by North Terrace, West Terrace, Currie Street, Grenfell Street and Pultney Street – and to connect it to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and Riverbank area.

WEST (West End Safety Trial)

A key element of a vibrant city is making people feel safer.

A joint State Government and Adelaide City Council project will trial safety initiatives in the city’s north-west to improve amenity and safety.

Read more about the WEST initiative on the City Safety page.

This week in the WEST:

Free Shuttle bus for the Schutzenfest - 13 and 14 January. Read more...
Read what has been happening over the Christmas-New Year period. Read more...

Australia's First Urban Design Protocol

The Australian Government's Protocol is a tool to improve the quality and usability of our public spaces and city buildings, establishing 12 broadly agreed principles for quality urban places in Australia. The document Creating Places for People – an urban design protocol for Australian cities is complemented by a website designed to help produce attractive, high-quality sustainable places in which people will want to live, work and relax. Alongside the Protocol is a Fact Sheet for each State and Territory – South Australia's acknowledges the place of the Capital City Committee in ensuring joint State Government / City Council coordination.

Creating Places for People: An Urban Design Protocol for Australian Cities (PDF, 2963Kb)
Australia's First Urban Design 'Protocol', Media Release 30 November 2011 (PDF, 90Kb)
Creating Places for People: An Urban Design Protocol for Australian Cities, Fact Sheet South Australia (PDF, 938Kb)

Annual Report 2010-2011

The Capital City Committee’s Annual Report highlights the unique collaborative arrangements between the South Australian Government and the Adelaide City Council to ensure the ongoing strategic development of Adelaide reflects its role as the State's capital. The Annual Report is introduced with a joint message from the Premier and the Lord Mayor and is a record of the Committee’s areas of focus, achievements and priorities for the financial year 2010-2011.

The Report is a legislative requirement under Section 16 of the City of Adelaide Act 1998. In accordance with the Act, the Capital City Committee 2010-2011 Annual Report was laid before both Houses of Parliament on 18 October 2011 and presented to the Adelaide City Council on the same day.

Download the Capital City Committee 2010-2011 Annual Report (PDF 7.5mb)

Development Program 2011-2012

The Capital City Committee Development Program 2011-2012 was endorsed by the Capital City Committee as its meeting on 20 September 2011.

The Program's vision is to enhance Adelaide’s ranking as one of the world’s most liveable cities and the joint message from the Premier and the Lord Mayor reflects this city-state partnership.

The Program has five themes and identifies areas of challenge and opportunity. It is a legislative requirement under the City of Adelaide Act 1998, which states the Committee needs to prepare a Program and revise it each year.

Download the Capital City Committee Development Program 2011-2012 (PDF 289KB)

Liveable City Forum

As the Steering Group for the 5000+ Integrated Design Strategy for inner Adelaide, the Capital City Committee was pleased to support the first of five specialist forums held at the future site of the Bowden Urban Village on 9 and 10 June 2011.

Using the theme of ‘Liveable City’, the forum brought together more than 100 representatives from various design and art specialists, government and civic groups to explore how to plan, develop and maintain Adelaide’s buildings and open spaces to foster healthy, safe and enjoyable lifestyles for all users of the city.

Four areas were synthesized from the forum conversations:

density, diversity and quality
great streets
connection with nature
incubation, opportunity and creativity.

The forum fulfilled the Committee’s 2010-2011 legislative requirement to hold a least one forum per year drawn from the city’s ‘community’.

Green City Forum

The Capital City Committee’s 2011-2012 forum built on the success of the first specialist forum of the 5000+ Integrated Design Strategy for inner Adelaide.

Using the theme of ‘Green City’, the two day forum was held on 14 and 15 June 2011 to investigate how Adelaide can design healthy communities, long term sustainability and systems-thinking into our built environment, behaviour and governance.