Your views: on building height loopholes and more
Today, readers comment on urban planning rules, banning activity on the flooding River Murray and bus drivers’ industrial action.
Commenting on the story: Council concern over affordable housing height incentives
What a gift for developers! According to the Plan SA website, affordable housing is at or below $458,700. This policy will be viewed as a tiny concession, ie a studio apartment with no parking, in exchange for a whole extra level of height and opportunity to supersize profit.
Sounds a lot like the ridiculous “tree offset” fund developers can contribute $300 to after clearing a block. – Alicia Siegel
It is no consolation for someone living near a new apartment building that is 2-storeys higher than the planning rules ordinarily allow, on account of 15% of the development being purportedly ‘affordable’ and without adequate car parking, when the development looms large over their streetscape and overshadows their garden and they can’t find a park in their street.
It makes the planning rules meaningless.
Does this excuse the Carlton housing commission flats or the ones in Scotland that they blow up these days, which they can because they’re publicly owned, as opposed to privately developed and sold off developments?
As someone who designs apartments for developers, developers are not interested in providing affordable housing, and any contrived planning mechanisms designed to achieve such outcomes have routinely been abused to gain development concessions without ever delivering affordable housing anyway.
The only way to provide affordable housing is for an entity like the SA Housing Trust to build rental accommodation within the normal planning parameters, which are not something that should be traded off as Planning SA seem to want to do these days. – Sandy Wilkinson
Commenting on the story: Boating and fishing banned along flooding Murray
This is crazy, when is the government going to stop these nanny state rules that take our rights and liberties away?
There is zero risk to me or anyone else if I want to go for a swim or paddle in my canoe on our lagoon. I have done this in every other flood event we have had throughout my lifetime. Why stop every citizen from safety going about their life and enjoying our river because there might be some idiot that might do themselves harm and hurt or kill themselves?
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If we take this policy, let’s ban motorbikes, cars, pushbikes, scooters – hey let’s just ban using the river for ever! The government is overstepping their rights and taking our rights away, this is what has to be stopped. – James Lochert
Commenting on the story: Bus drivers threaten January strike
As someone who doesn’t own a car I rely on buses. Far too often I see and hear the abuse that our bus drivers suffer. Vile racial abuse is common.
I know one driver who after a passenger tried to stab him, was told by his manager to continue his shift. I fully support their long overdue action. – Christine Brown
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