Re: Housing Developments | Northern Suburbs
Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:35 am
I'll double check later but more the point, isn't this latest area in question part of the Gawler River floodplain?
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Eden Two Wells is flood protectedChillyPhilly wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 11:35 amI'll double check later but more the point, isn't this latest area in question part of the Gawler River floodplain?
Ehh.. If you don't like it then don't buy land in there. I just hope that whoever is in charge is looking to the future for the town center and things are being planned now to avoid what Gawler has turned in to
But the point is Norman, that not everyone wants to live in such developments. Be it dog box apartments or medium density with no backyard.
I'm cool with low density housing, which we already have lots of anyway. My objection is mainly to the developer asking the taxpayer for our money to build the infrastructure they are required to fund themselves. If the demand for these houses is there like you said, they don't need a handout.rev wrote:But the point is Norman, that not everyone wants to live in such developments. Be it dog box apartments or medium density with no backyard.
I'm all for more apartment buildings, in the CBD, and selected areas around Adelaide, like Glenelg and the heart of Port Adelaide.
The "free market" hasn't seen a shift away from your typical house to medium or apartment living. We have a variety of options now, diversity, which is good.
There's plenty of room for farms outside of the greater Adelaide metro area boundary. Farms bigger then the market gardens.
Personally I cant help but wonder what our cbd would look like, if we didn't have some higher density areas like Bowden and Mawson Lakes.Norman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:40 pmI'm cool with low density housing, which we already have lots of anyway. My objection is mainly to the developer asking the taxpayer for our money to build the infrastructure they are required to fund themselves. If the demand for these houses is there like you said, they don't need a handout.rev wrote:But the point is Norman, that not everyone wants to live in such developments. Be it dog box apartments or medium density with no backyard.
I'm all for more apartment buildings, in the CBD, and selected areas around Adelaide, like Glenelg and the heart of Port Adelaide.
The "free market" hasn't seen a shift away from your typical house to medium or apartment living. We have a variety of options now, diversity, which is good.
There's plenty of room for farms outside of the greater Adelaide metro area boundary. Farms bigger then the market gardens.
If the taxpayer is to support any housing, it is to promote more sustainable outcomes such as Bowden, Oaklands and other infill projects. They are not only more sustainable, but they also promote and support more variety in our housing stock.
Doubtful, Bowden is a publicly funded development while Mawson Lakes had some help, the watered down reincarnation of the 1990 'Multi-fuction Polis' (MFP). The apartments that have gone up around the CBD are privately funded.rev wrote:Personally I cant help but wonder what our cbd would look like, if we didn't have some higher density areas like Bowden and Mawson Lakes.Norman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 5:40 pmI'm cool with low density housing, which we already have lots of anyway. My objection is mainly to the developer asking the taxpayer for our money to build the infrastructure they are required to fund themselves. If the demand for these houses is there like you said, they don't need a handout.rev wrote: But the point is Norman, that not everyone wants to live in such developments. Be it dog box apartments or medium density with no backyard.
I'm all for more apartment buildings, in the CBD, and selected areas around Adelaide, like Glenelg and the heart of Port Adelaide.
The "free market" hasn't seen a shift away from your typical house to medium or apartment living. We have a variety of options now, diversity, which is good.
There's plenty of room for farms outside of the greater Adelaide metro area boundary. Farms bigger then the market gardens.
If the taxpayer is to support any housing, it is to promote more sustainable outcomes such as Bowden, Oaklands and other infill projects. They are not only more sustainable, but they also promote and support more variety in our housing stock.
Clearly there is some demand for smaller apartment type dwellings. We've seen a bit of a little boom with that sort of development in the city, so if we had limited that outside the city, would that have translated into more high rise development in the city and an even more evolving skyline?..
But haven't they only started going up after the state government took over the approval process? If there was no mid rise zones outside of the CBD there would have been a greater influx of submissions in the CBD and perhaps the state government would have taken over much soonerChillyPhilly wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2018 8:42 pmDoubtful, Bowden is a publicly funded development while Mawson Lakes had some help, the watered down reincarnation of the 1990 'Multi-fuction Polis' (MFP). The apartments that have gone up around the CBD are privately funded.
With Chicken Home and Monica's Pizza at the western end of the main shopping centre, and a lunch stop bakery in the middle (and Subway at OTR not far away in Smithfield), Roast Chicken, Pizza and Subway seem like strange choices to want to put opposite Aldi as well. A tavern or another restaurant might make sense. I assume there is a future restaurant space where the land sales office is at present next door to Fasta Pasta too. There isn't a Chinese or any other east Asian shops in the immediate area. The closest are at Munno Para Shopping City (Red Dragon), Chef Lam (Yorketown Road) and Playford Alive (Queen Bee). I imagine that Magik Masala (Indian) would get more customers if it moved out of the little centre on California Avenue to a more visible location, but it seems to be busy enough where it is anyway.
Springvale Gardens was an estate in Blakeview in the early-to-mid 1990s. It is immediately south of Blakes Crossing between Craigmore Road and Uley Road. Early ads said it was at Smithfield East as it was behind the Smithfield East Shell service station. My wife and I built on one of the last blocks in Stage 1 in 1991 (they were selling up to stage 4 or 5 by then).