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Save Cheltenham Park - land &
This is a request to anybody concerned with Cheltenham Park being used for housing development instead of as a significant open space and underground stormwater reservoir. According to Colin Pitman this site has the potential and capability of storing wetlands cleansed stormwater 1.5 times the 20 GL storage capacity of Kangaroo Creek Dam in deep underground aquifers. You would have to be a brain dead Government to use Cheltenham for any other purpose given the critically of water to Adelaide and the immense damage stormwater and wastewater has done and continues to do to Adelaide Coastal Waters where some 9,000 hectares of old-growth seagrass forests have been lost. This has had immense implications for our beaches and the unique marine ecosystems dependent on the seagrass forests adjacent to our coast which has been turned into an underwater desert.
Also the Cheltenham Park Residents Association's Supreme Court Case to keep this land in public trust goes is scheduled to commence on Monday 15th June and is expected to run for a couple of days or so. They will be looking for support for the community to fill the public galleries over the sitting days.
Residents call on stormwater expert
Craig Cook Adelaide Now 8th May 2009
"Stormwater expert Colin Pitman will give evidence for the Cheltenham Park Residents Association in its Supreme Court action to halt a housing development on the Cheltenham racecourse site."
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25445924-2682,00.html
Copy & Print this form and send it to Mr Rann
To the Hon Mike Rann MP, Premier of South Australia
GPO Box 2343 Adelaide SA 5001
I call upon the people's Parliament of South Australia to take ownership by acquisition for the citizens of Cheltenham and South Australia, the Land known as Cheltenham Park Racecourse so that it be preserved in perpetuity as Crown Land and maintained for the enjoyment of future generations,
and that:
- A tract of the described Land is preserved in a Memorial to the ownership of this land by the indigenous people of the Kaurna Nation, as acknowledged by the Letters Patent.
- The Land be formed to provide a large urban storm water retention scheme with swales, ponds and ephemeral wetlands to minimize the risk of flooding and property damage in the immediate area and to properties downstream in the flood plain that rely on the engineered drainage system for flood protection.
- Wetland water harvesting, aquifer storage and recovery for irrigation, commercial and other uses be integrated with natural landscape for habitat creation within a restored indigenous forest of woodland, scrub and grasses.
- Open space for recreational and sporting pursuits, community and display gardens be linked with pedestrian and bicycle pathways.
- Educational and interpretive sites with sculptures and public art are created as a Memorial to the Workers and their families of the surrounding Industrial Heartland who contributed to the wealth of South Australia (1930-1980) and to the notable pioneers in Public Administration, Education, Aviation, Sport etc whose endeavors are now our Heritage.
I affirm that these claims will provide the community benefit promised in the "Have your say" consultation prior to the ensuing change of zoning and the lifting of the Proclamation prohibiting subdivision of this Land.
Name:...................................................................................................
Address:...............................................................................................
Signature:......................................................Date:.............................
1 April 2009 - 20 June 2009
