CROWS “WITHDRAW” PARK TAKEOVER PLANS

On 4 April 2020, the Adelaide Football Club officially withdrew its threat to put a corporate office block onto Denise Norton Park / Pardipardinyilla (Park 2) of the world-unique National Heritage listed Adelaide Park Lands.

It's disappointing that it took a worldwide pandemic to fight off a corporate takeover.

The AFC’s statement of 4 April sent mixed messages by first claiming that the project was “on hold” and then going further to say:

“We are extremely disappointed to officially withdraw our proposal”

The City Council undertook a deeply flawed consultation, undertaken over a period of three months, from 11 December 2019 to 11 March 2020.

The consultation attracted 2,797 responses, of which 1,443 (52%) opposed the Crows plans.

A report to a Council committee on Tuesday 7 April deliberately omitted 746 of these responses because they “may have been influenced” by APPA.

There is a real risk that this proposal might be resurrected at any time.

See below for information about the campaign that APPA was running on this issue.