Strategic Plan - Live Q&A

The draft Strategic Plan forecasts that the number of primary, secondary and tertiary students in the City on any given day of the week will increase from 39,000 to 41,000, on the way to 45,000 by 2040.

While Adelaide City Council is not directly responsible for building or running schools, we will work closely with the State Government to support this growth in student numbers in the City, including plans for a new campus for Adelaide High School.

Adelaide City Council works very closely with the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure to manage traffic within the City.

Council developed its Smart Move Strategy to create an accessible City. The Strategy is a 10 year plan to provide more travel choices that accommodate the needs of residents, workers and visitors. It addresses the transport and movement issues of today by looking at the potential future needs to make our streets safer, more connected, and easier for people to access and use.

Council is committed to creating great streets and places within the City that people will want to stay and enjoy. Along these lines, the draft Strategic Plan includes the objective to increase green space and greenery in the built-up areas of the City by 100,000 square metres by 2020.

Wendy, thank you for your question. Whilst you may be hearing news that in some sectors the residential property market in some large Australian cities that supply may have outstripped demand, we are not seeing evidence of this in Adelaide.

Given that the vast majority of residential buildings are not built before they have been largely pre-sold, there is an inherent check and balance that protects their value.

We are also investigating relaunching an ongoing marketing campaign that promotes the benefits of living in the City of Adelaide. We believe this is an important step in underwriting ongoing demand for city living.

There is no doubt that more people want to live in the city because of the vibrant lifestyle and rich experiences they can only find here.

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you very much for your comments. Last year I recall we worked with a 3^rd party to launch a online app which provided information on a cultural walking trail. This technology could well be applicable to your situation. Should you require more about the Adelaide City Explorer app, please contact my office at ealordmayor@adelaidecitycouncil.com

Dear Robert, thank you for your question. We are certainly prioritising cultural tourism in all of its form in the City of Adelaide and as one of the City’s oldest institutions we welcome the continuing importance your organisation plays for the City’s tourism, culture and heritage. We have recently embarked upon a tourism action plan which we hope to conclude in the coming months and should you have a specific plan regarding the tourism significance of the West Terrace Cemetery I certainly encourage you to email your thoughts in greater detail to my office (ealordmayor@adelaidecitycouncil.com) and I will ensure it will be forwarded to the appropriate project manager.

As the Presiding Member of the Adelaide Park Lands Authority I also take a keen interest in the Adelaide Park Lands and I look forward to hearing from your further.

Thanks. Great question. I completely agree that Adelaide is well positioned to become a world class cycling city. We are currently investigating how to improve and expand our city bike scheme, such as a point to point bike share scheme. We have a program of continuous improvement for our Park Lands cycling pathways, and we are working with the state government on North-South and East-West cycling infrastructure throughout the city.

Regarding your question about helmets, I believe safety always needs to come first. I welcome any data on the debate of helmets verses no helmets, however ultimately this falls under state legislation. I encourage you to share your thoughts with the minister.

Thanks for your question. We are currently reviewing our waste collection practices and definitely have a goal to reduce landfill, increase recycling and incentivise green waste collection. The City of Adelaide has a goal toward becoming a carbon neutral city by 2025, and our waste collection practices play an important role in achieving that. In locations including Rundle Mall, we have installed dual purpose waste and recycling bins, and we hope to have more of them soon.

Thank you for your question. We have a plan over the next four years to grown the number of business operating in the City from 5,000 to 5,300 and to grow the number of workers from 89,000 to 94,000. The faster growing sectors in the City are education, medical, the arts, technology including clean tech, tourism and professional services. We are seeing a number of new entrepreneurs entering each of these sectors. To support all of these, we have appointed an investment attraction team, a business services support team (Enterprise Adelaide) and a number of grants and incentives.

Examples of support programs and incentives include: the Sustainable Investment Scheme (SIS), the Activation and Business Start-Up Fund, Low Carbon Entrepreneur Prize (announced today), Open Source Data; Adelaide Free Wi-Fi network and a plan to investigate fibre to the premise.

In partnership with the State Government we will from time to time announce new grants to support innovative new businesses in the City of Adelaide.

Thank you for your question, much appreciated.

Adelaide has a long history of being a creative city and our 2016-2020 strategic plan supports that. In December 2015, Adelaide was recognised as a UNESCO live music city and we are currently working with partners to turn this accreditation into a means of further supporting local artists and attracting tourist.

Adelaide City Council also actively supports many organisations that support local artists; such as the Adelaide Fringe, Adelaide Festival, WOMADelaide, the Cabaret Festival, Adelaide International Guitar Festival, Feast Festival, in addition to approximately 450 community arts and cultural events throughout the year. We have a successful public art grant scheme, an emerging curators program at Adelaide Town Hall and an artistic development program which provides opportunities for emerging artists in the city to deliver a public outcome. Thanks again for your question.

Thank you for your question. Supporting all types of businesses and residents in the city of Adelaide is our top priority. We welcome the roll out of the nbn network through-out the city of Adelaide and will soon will embark upon a plan to develop a business case through the nbn (technology choice program) for optical Fibre To The Premises as a new standard of infrastructure. We recognise that nbn to the premises will further support the knowledge economy sector of which we have seen 14% growth of knowledge workers in the last 3 years. To further support we plan to expand our free wifi network and deliver higher download and upload speeds.

The city of Adelaide has partnered with CISCO to become a lighthouse city, of which we the only city in the southern hemisphere, and have recently opened the Smart City Studio.  This collaboration will enable us to collate data from a wide range of topics which we will encourage entrepreneurs to use it to uncover commercial opportunities.

Our strategic plan has a focus on becoming a smart city whereby we will lead by example by adopting smart technology for improving the everyday experience of our city. We support entrepreneurs with our business support team called Enterprise Adelaide, and recently provided the first grants through our Activation and Business Start Up Fund which is aimed at assisting small businesses start up in underutilised buildings.

We support all forms of entrepreneurial endeavour. Entrepreneurism is not specific to any particular industry, and we will continue to provide support to any new start-up through a range of means.

In addition, there are over 110 separate support programs for start-ups in the city from council, state government, industry and others.