Planning approvals to pave the way for the Lot Fourteen development in Adelaide’s east end have been finalised
Churches and child care are in. Strip clubs and amusement arcades are out. The rules are set for Adelaide’s most hyped development and not all will be welcome at Lot 14.
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Hotels, a helicopter landing pad, laneway bars, places of worship and a childcare centre will all be allowed on Lot Fourteen , development plans for the innovation, education and cultural precinct have revealed.
New plans show flashy billboards, “adult entertainment”, amusement arcades and residential apartments or housing have been ruled out for the old hospital site on North Terrace.
The site had previously been zoned Institutional (university/hospital), but a new development plan amendment has paved the way for a raft of new uses.
Height limits for the site have been set at 53m – about 15 storeys.
But the plans do allow discretion for what will become the centrepiece of the site – a Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre – that the State Government hopes will help secure a world-leading tech company as its anchor tenant.
That building can exceed 53M providing the design proves “exemplary standards of architectural merit”, the building “positively contributes to the quality and function of the urban fabric of the precinct” and it does not cast too great a shadow on the Adelaide Botanic Garden.
A promise by the former state government to hand back a strip of land to the Botanic Garden, that had been taken when the old hospital was originally built, has been ignored.
Instead, a large swath of open public space will run adjacent to the gardens behind a proposed Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre.
To further reduce any impacts on the plan, it says building heights should provide an orderly transition scaling down towards the Adelaide Botanic Garden and Parklands and scaling up to buildings facing North Terrace and Frome Road.”
Premier Steven Marshall said the plan encourages the integration of Lot Fourteen with its neighbours.
“There will be thousands of jobs on site at Lot Fourteen and this sign-off will pave the way for new amenities to cater for so many people on the site,” he said.
The innovation zone of the site – that will host the Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre and an International Centre for Food, Hospitality and Tourism Studies – is expected to also include child care, a community centre, convention facilities, an indoor recreation centre, library, bars restaurants and shops.
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But the plan rules out residential accommodation, in line with a promise from Mr Marshall from Opposition. The idea of housing development had been flirted with by the Weatherill government, but was dumped when a private proposal for the site fell over.
Mr Marshall said now that the plans are finalised, work can continue to bring the State Government’s vision for Lot Fourteen to life “as a premier innovation precinct, creating thousands of jobs”.
“It will help ensure our plan for Lot Fourteen will become a reality, with the next phase of infrastructure delivery including the Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre, Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre, International Centre for Food, Hospitality and Tourism Studies, and beautiful open public spaces for everyone to enjoy.”
Opposition treasury spokesman Stephen Mullighan welcomed the plans.
“But we remain disappointed the state government will not hand back land to the botanical garden,” he said.
Originally published as Planning approvals to pave the way for the Lot Fourteen development in Adelaide’s east end have been finalised