RADIO NEWS & TALKBACK PRECIS
Morning / Lunch Period (9am–1pm)
Friday 17 June 2022
RADIO NEWS BROADCASTS
Jayne Stinson, Member for Badcoe (FIVEaa 11.32-11.37)
(Byner: Got some good news for you ... an independent consortium led by the Commercial Retail Group who own Frewville and Pasadena Foodland, with national property developer Peet Limited and the local developer Buildtec, are going to redevelop a very long-dormant site, and that’s good, that’s very good ... Jayne Stinson ... this has been a long-time coming, when can we see some action?) ... it’s really exciting that there’s finally something happening on this site ... it’s been five or six years since Le Cornu let this site here at Forestville, not to be confused with the North Adelaide site. It’s probably going to be about two and a half, three years before we’ve got a development here. It’s going to be a mixed-use development ... it’s going to be about 300 homes, a mixture of apartments and townhouses, but then it’s all centred around a Market Square which is focused on local food and wine, artisan produce ... that’s going to be really exciting for our community. Also, there’s going to be this thing called an Urban Farm, which is ... an elevated green space which is connected with the Chapleys Foodland ... and a school that goes with it, up to 250 students will be able to come and study who are interested in the food and wine sector, in greening and agriculture and climate change ... there’s some pretty exciting things that are going to happen here ... there has been some controversy, my own community would like to see a lot of green space in our area, we’re pretty short on public green space. This project’s got 15% green space and then another 15% elevated, so I’m pretty keen to see what people think about that, whether that suits what our community wants and, obviously, we’re going to be having some consultation over coming months about it.
(Byner: ... I know the Chapley people well ... they’re not only wonderful employers, they are very passionate about South Australia in what they do, so we’ve got the right people involved in this ... how long is it likely to be before we actually see anything come of this?) ... formal consultation is going to happen ... around September, October ... I’ll be doing my own work with my community before that ... planning development approvals need to happen, that’ll probably happen next year, and then after that we’ll see something built ... just talking with the guys from Chapleys only moments ago, they were saying about two and a half to three years we’ll actually see the thing built ... we’re in pretty shaky times as far as construction goes, but I’m hoping that they’ll be able to meet those deadlines and we’ll see something soon ... they haven’t put really firm deadlines on it ... they’re pretty passionate about getting it right, and there’s lots of elements to this. You’ve got the housing element, you’ve got the retail element, you’ve got the green space element, so there’s a lot going on and it’s important that all of that is right before it goes through all the planning processes and hopefully gets the tick of approval ... there is room for influence here ... we are going to see a genuine consultation process. The guys from the Chapleys team were saying to me ... we want to make sure the local community loves this because we want them to come and be our customers and we want them to be buying ... the apartments and townhouses and ... they really want it to integrate with our local community, which I think is really encouraging and doesn’t happen with all developments in my area, sadly.
(Byner: ... the Chapleys are well-known and have a great reputation for local produce, local farmers, they’re passionate about those things ... what’s the earliest we can expect some action for this?) ... the consultation is kicking off, as far as my consultation, this weekend ... on Sunday people can come down to Forestville Reserve near the swimming pool and catch up with me, I can give them some more details about what’s happening. Then we’ll see a more formal process in ... September, October that’s likely to kick off, then they’ll taken on board the thoughts of the local community and the broader community and then move on from there ... it’s probably going to be ... two and a half, three years before we’re seeing something built and finished here, but that’s obviously dependent on what happens in the construction sector and the approvals all going through ... I think it’s really important that we get this right, rather than we get it done fast, but it’s really exciting for our community to finally know that something’s going to be built here. We were going to have Kaufland, the German supermarket giant, you know, progress their plans ... quite extensively before they decided to get out of Australia all together and put about 10 of their properties on the market, but that was disappointing for our community because people invested a lot of time and effort in that and that project looked like it was going to be pretty good too, but I’ve got to say, this one is way beyond what Kaufland were offering ... even though it was disappointing at the time to see that project collapse, I think ... this project is far more promising and something that’s really going to reflect our community and be a real drawcard on what is a landmark site. (Byner: ... thanks for coming on ...)