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Glenside Hospital Campus Master Plan

In November 2008, The Minister for Urban Development and Planning released a proposal to rezone the Glenside Campus to reflect the planned redevelopment of the site which includes a new hospital and purpose-built specialist services for mental health and substance abuse.

The Glenside Hospital Campus Master Plan prepared by URPS provides a planning and design framework to guide the redevelopment of this significant inner city site. The master plan helps to achieve the State Government's vision for 'state-of-the-art' mental health care and substance abuse facilities, providing for new clinical models of care in a way that is integrated with retail and commercial activities, housing, a cultural hub and significant usable public open space.

The master plan includes development principles that relate to built form, site layout and urban design aimed at:

  • delivering world-class, integrated, health care services
  • providing ecologically sustainable, mixed-use, urban development close to the CBD, including affordable housing and supported accommodation
  • offering commercial and employment opportunities
  • relocating the South Australian Film Corporation to the historic core of the site with the establishment of the Adelaide Film and Screen Centre
  • creating open space and environmental benefits in line with the State Government's sustainability objectives.

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."