ADELAIDE OVAL REDEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT BILL

Introduction and First Reading

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (15:37): Obtained leave and introduced a bill for an act to facilitate the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval; to provide for the future care, control and management of Adelaide Oval and its precincts; and for other purposes. Read a first time.

Second Reading

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for State/Local Government Relations) (15:38): I move:

That this bill be now read a second time.

I seek leave to have the second reading explanation inserted in Hansard without my reading it.

Leave granted.

The Adelaide Oval Redevelopment and Management Bill 2011 will enable the timely redevelopment and long-term management of Adelaide Oval as a multi sport venue that will become the home of football and cricket in South Australia.

The Bill will provide the certainty required to allow Football and Cricket once again to co-exist at one of the greatest sporting grounds in the world, providing significant financial security to both sporting codes and delivering funds for grass-roots investment.

It will also provide a world-class 21^st century stadium venue that will accommodate other sports, functions and events.

The significant vote of confidence recently provided by the members of the South Australian Cricket Association demonstrates the overwhelming support for the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval as a modern sporting venue that retains its unique heritage and traditions. These include retention of the name 'Adelaide Oval', the heritage scoreboard and the northern mound along with its iconic vistas of St Peter's Cathedral.

The overwhelming response by the broader South Australian community to SACA's vote of confidence has shown that the Adelaide Oval redevelopment is not only seen as a world-class piece of construction, but also as a piece of psychological infrastructure that lifts the spirits of the State.

The redevelopment of Adelaide Oval will act as a catalyst for the reinvigoration of the Riverbank Precinct, which along with the expansion of the Adelaide Convention Centre and other planned private and public sector initiatives, will transform the precinct into one of the city's prime destinations for the arts, leisure, recreation and entertainment.

It will be the showpiece of Adelaide that once and for all proves the naysayers cannot hold South Australia back and will attract private sector investment into the billions of dollars.

The Adelaide Oval redevelopment is also a key element in the Riverbank Precinct Master Planning process, which is now developing a comprehensive and integrated plan for the precincts on both sides of the river. Importantly the Master Plan will guide the alignment of the new bridge that will connect Adelaide Oval to the city and its many attractions, facilities and convenient public transport just 350 metres away—closer than the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

The redevelopment also allows for significant investment in the park lands and the Stadium design team has focussed on a ‘Pavilions in the Park' concept—a unique stadium that takes advantage of the park land setting.

The Adelaide Oval Redevelopment and Management Bill 2011 is vital to deliver the Government's planned $535 million investment to redevelop Adelaide Oval and to ensure the new venue and the surrounding precinct are operated and managed to the highest standards and to the overall benefit of the South Australian community.

The Bill requires the Minister to protect and enhance the park lands and also provides powers for the Minister to cancel arrangement where a holder of a sub-licence is not managing any land in a manner consistent with maintaining park lands for the use and enjoyment of members of the public.

The four broad objectives of the Adelaide Oval Redevelopment and Management Bill 2011 are as follows:

To vest care, control and management of the Adelaide Oval Core Area to the Minister.

The Minister will be authorised to grant a lease of the Adelaide Oval Core Area to the Adelaide Oval SMA Ltd for any term up to 80 years. The lease will be subject to the rights of South Australian Cricket Association and the South Australian National Football League set out in licences granted by the Minister to unrestricted and exclusive use of Adelaide Oval for cricket and football purposes.

At the request of the Minister, the Adelaide City Council must grant a licence over all of the Adelaide Oval Licence Area. The licence will be for any term up to 80 years.

Any development up to 2015 within the Adelaide Core area and the Adelaide Oval Licence Area will be authorised.

The project team has made significant progress in the last 12 months and has recently called tenders for a builder to join the project team to undertake the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval. The Government still seeks to let a construction contract in October/November this year and to complete the project in 2014.

To enable this work to proceed it is necessary to ensure certainty in relation to care, control and management of the subject land, governance and tenure matters and other arrangements necessary to facilitate the redevelopment and management of Adelaide Oval and the surrounding precinct.

The passage of this Bill will provide this certainty and finally bring Football back to the city in a world-class Stadium, alongside a world-class Riverbank precinct that will forever change Adelaide for the better.

I commend the Bill to Members.

Explanation of Clauses

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This clause is formal.

2—Commencement

This measure will come into operation on a day to be fixed by proclamation.

3—Interpretation

This clause defines certain terms for the purposes of the measure.

Part 2—Adelaide Oval Core Area

4—Care, control and management of land vested in Minister

This clause vests the care, control and management of the Adelaide Oval Core Area in the Minister subject to the other provisions of the measure (and on such vesting any lease between the Council and SACA that relates to any part of the area is extinguished).

The clause provides that the area must be used predominantly for the purposes of a sporting facility (including related uses) with other uses (such as recreational, entertainment and social uses) being allowed on an ancillary or temporary basis from time to time.

The clause also provides that the Minister must ensure that the area continues to be named Adelaide Oval, that the existing scoreboard is maintained in good condition and that an open space is kept at the northern end of Adelaide Oval (provided that temporary structures would be allowed in this area under subclause (4)).

5—Lease to SMA

This clause authorises the Minister to grant a lease over any part of the Adelaide Oval Core Area to Adelaide Oval SMA Limited (SMA) which may be for any term up to 80 years (including an extension or renewal) and which must be subject to the rights of SACA and the SANFL (set out in licences granted by the Minister) to unrestricted and exclusive use of Adelaide Oval for purposes associated with the playing of cricket during designated periods (in relation to SACA) and for purposes associated with the playing of football during designated periods (in relation to SANFL). A copy of any lease or licence granted under this clause must be laid before both Houses of Parliament within 6 sitting days after being granted.

6—Development authorisation

This clause authorises any development undertaken within the Adelaide Oval Core Area associated (directly or indirectly) with the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval, its stands and other facilities. An authorisation under this clause will be subject to conditions Gazetted by the Minister and operates as if it were a development authorisation under the Development Act 1993.

The Minister must take reasonable steps to consult with the Council before specifying conditions on development authorisation and must, after specifying conditions (by notice in the Gazette), cause copies of the notice to be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

The clause will expire on 31 December 2015 (without affecting any development completed or commenced before that date).

Part 3—Adelaide Oval Licence Area

7—Licence to Minister

This clause provides that the Council must, at the request of the Minister, grant a licence to the Minister over all of the Adelaide Oval Licence Area, or any part of that area specified by the Minister. A licence under this clause is to be for a term specified by the Minister (of up to 80 years including any extension or renewal) and may be subject to such terms and conditions as the Minister may specify after consultation with the Council.

The clause restricts the purposes for which land may be used in accordance with the licence (or a sub-licence granted by the Minister under subclause (4)), namely providing car parking, access to, and redevelopment of, the Adelaide Oval Core Area, providing facilities for playing sport and any other activity prescribed by the regulations.

A licence under this clause will not be subject to Part 11 of the Local Government Act 1999 or section 21 of the Adelaide Park Lands Act 2005.

The Minister must, within 6 sitting days after a licence or sub-licence is granted under this section, cause copies of the licence or sub-licence to be laid before both Houses of Parliament.

8—Development authorisations

This clause authorises (as if it were a development authorisation under the Development Act 1993) any development, undertaken by or with the consent of the Minister, within the Adelaide Oval Licence Area associated (directly or indirectly) with development within the ambit of clause 6 or in connection with a licence or sub-licence. The Minister must take reasonable steps to consult with the Council before undertaking or consenting to development under this clause, or before specifying conditions under subclause (4).

Under subclause (2), the development authorisation in subclause (1) will not apply to development involving the construction of a permanent building unless the development involves a grandstand or other facilities associated with the playing of sport on or in the vicinity of Adelaide Oval No 2. The measure makes it clear that subclause (2) does not apply to site offices etc associated with the redevelopment of Adelaide Oval.

The clause will expire on 31 December 2015 (without affecting any development completed or commenced before that date).

Part 4—Miscellaneous

9—Interaction with other Acts

This clause provides for the interaction of the measure with other Acts.

10—Status of land as park lands

This clause provides that, except to the extent that is reasonably required in connection with the operation of Parts 2 and 3, the Minister should, in managing any part of the Adelaide Oval Licence Area, seek to protect and enhance the area as park lands for the use and enjoyment of members of the public.

11—Victor Richardson Road

This clause provides for the closure of Victor Richardson Road at North Adelaide and for the care, control and management of the land that comprises the road to be vested in the Council (as part of the Adelaide Park Lands). This land is included in the definition of the Adelaide Oval Licence Area under clause 3 of the measure.

12—Identification of land

This clause provides that the Minister may, by instrument deposited in the GRO, identify or delineate any land in connection with the operation of this Act.

13—Duties of Registrar-General and other persons

This clause provides that the Registrar-General must take any appropriate action as required in consequence of a plan or instrument deposited in the Lands Titles Registration Office or in the GRO under or for the purposes of this Act. The clause also provides that any other person required or authorised under an Act or law to record instruments or transactions relating to land must take any action necessary to give effect to the plan or instrument.

14—Interim occupation of core area

This clause provides that until the Minister grants a lease to SMA under clause 5, SACA is authorised to continue to occupy and manage the Adelaide Oval Core Area on any terms and conditions that the Minister may determine after consultation with SACA.

15—Regulations

This clause provides for the making of regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Schedule 1—Adelaide Oval Core Area—Overall plan

Schedule 2—Eastern Grandstand Area

Schedule 3—Southern Area

Schedule 4—Northern Area

The Schedules provide maps for the purposes of the measure.

Debate adjourned on motion of Mr Williams.