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House of Assembly - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Badcoe Electorate

Ms STINSON (Badcoe) (15:24): I rise to provide the house and my community with an update on progress on a broad range of election commitments that I was very pleased to make to my community of Badcoe, and I am incredibly pleased to now be delivering on in my community. I am going to rip through them because there are quite a few of them and there is quite a lot happening.

First-up, today we saw the tabling of the Public Works Committee's report into Adelaide Botanic High School. That work is steaming ahead and what it means for my community is that, once we have those 700 extra places at Adelaide Botanic, the school zone, as it was always meant to be delivered in my community, will finally be restored to nine suburbs in the western and inner southern suburbs and that includes, of course, suburbs in my area. I am incredibly excited about that. I am excited about talking to people soon about enrolments, which will start mid next year for the 2024 school year. What this is about is fairness; it is about righting a wrong, and I am pleased to be delivering on that.

Also on schools, for Plympton International College I made a commitment of $3 million for a new kiss and drop. Everyone knows the drama of trying to drop your kids off, particularly in a built-up suburban area like the very popular Plympton. That school has seen rocketing enrolments because of the vision of this government, when we were last in government, and that of Susan Close to have a focus on Chinese language and culture at that school. That is really delivering, but it means that it is pretty popular and there is a little bit of traffic going on.

I was pleased to sit down with representatives from the Department for Infrastructure and Transport, the education department and the school leadership last week and go through the preliminary designs that we have for a kiss and drop. It looks really fantastic. We are going to be presenting that to the school governing council very soon, as we are taking on the feedback already that has been provided—very constructive feedback from principal Amy Whyte and her team. That is a good and exciting development for our community, and I look forward to joining the school this evening for their school presentation night.

Black Forest Primary School has been a long-awaited project, with $5 million being committed by the Labor government way back in 2017. Unfortunately, not a lot happened in the last four years, but now it is revving up and it is happening again. It has gone out to tender and we will be seeing some construction there within the next few months. That is going to provide new indoor and outdoor learning spaces for this very popular and fantastic primary school in my area.

In Barwell Avenue, I have committed funding for a pedestrian crossing and road safety measures because there is a kindergarten right there—and that is happening. I thank the West Torrens council for making the most of $1 million that I had dedicated to do some other road safety measures around the area while they are also doing the pedestrian crossing. There is community consultation coming up on that and it starts next Monday 21 November, and I encourage people to have a look at the really well-developed plans and artist's impression so that they can see what is being done and tell us what their ideas are to make it even better.

The Aldridge Avenue playground is a playground that can, let's face it, be made a lot better, so $200,000 is going to that—that is in Plympton Park. The community consultation starts on that next Thursday afternoon. Come down to the park and you can have a chat with me and the people who are designing that playground. The feedback that I got from my community was that they wanted more play equipment for little kids.

It is all well and good for the big ones to have the big play equipment but we need some things for the little ones to be able to play on as well. I am really excited about that, and it will be at 4.30pm at Aldridge Avenue Reserve next Thursday. Come down and have your say. I want to make sure that that election commitment delivers what I promised it would, and that it is as good as it can possibly be.

Regarding the planning review, one of the top issues, if not the top issue in Badcoe over recent years, has been planning and development. Our area is certainly subject to urban infill and some of the consequences that go with that, but also some of the benefits that go with it as well. We promised to review the Planning and Design Code and that is exactly what we are doing. An expert panel has been appointed and there is public consultation going on right now and into December.

That is why I am holding the Badcoe planning forum on Saturday 3 December. The minister Nick Champion will be there and able to hear people's concerns and take them on board as part of the consultation process. If you cannot make it, there is a survey in your letterbox from me so you can write down what you think and send it back to me so that we can take in all that very valuable information and use it to make our planning laws better.

Finally, I want to talk about green space. I have been doing my bit and keeping to my commitments to make sure we look after our tree canopy. That includes saving historic old trees at Black Forest, looking at what we can do to improve the amount of green space in the new Le Cornu development and also paying attention to what is happening with the Mike Turtur Bikeway Overpass and South Road.

There is more stuff on my page, but I cannot get to it all because we are so busy, but that is an update on what is happening.

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