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Redevelopment of the Glenside Hospital Campus

Our strengths in terms of strong communication, flexibility and accessibility have served us well in our master planning work for the redevelopment of Glenside Hospital Campus on behalf of SA Health. URPS assisted the State Government to realise the vision of the master plan by facilitating a variety of developments applications on the site, including the Intermediate Care Facility (ICC) and the Adelaide Film and Screen Centre.

The ICC is a form of residential development allied to the Glenside Hospital. It includes additional staff support to provide patients suffering from a mental illness with short term, intensive clinical treatment. The centre is designed to rehabilitate patients as a key step towards them living independently.

The Adelaide Film and Screen Centre involves the adaptive reuse of the magnificent, historic, Administration Building, together with an exciting array of sound stages, studios, screening rooms etc in new buildings at the rear. Core issues requiring resolution as part of this major development proposal include impacts on heritage significance, significant trees, land contamination, and overall environmental performance.

The Minister for Urban Development & Planning released the Ministerial Mount Barker Urban Growth Development Plan Amendment (DPA) in June 2010 for public consultation. This DPA proposes to rezone approximately 1300 hectares of rural land on the edges of Mt Barker and Nairne for residential and light industrial use.

With the aim of ensuring that its community was well informed and empowered to comment on the Ministerial DPA, the District Council of Mt Barker engaged URPS to run a series of information sessions for the local community. These six sessions were extremely well attended, with more than 300 people able to hear about and ask questions regarding the Ministerial DPA process and how to go about getting involved in this part of the planning system.

In a letter to the editor of the Mt Barker Courier, Jean Lovell of Nairne said that "Mt Barker Council is to be congratulated for its commitment to proper community consultation" and that URPS was "highly professional and responded in detail to questions in an articulate, honest and informed manner".

This is evidence of the success of these types of community information sessions and the goodwill and engagement that Mt Barker Council has fostered with its community through the process. We also believe that this type of process leads to informed and valuable input from the community to key planning initiatives such as this Ministerial DPA."