Cheltenham Park Supreme Court Action
There are many of us who have been highly critical of what's been happening at Cheltenham Park and so WACRA strongly endorses the following appeal by John Caledcott:
Are you concerned with Cheltenham Park being used for housing development instead of as a significant open space and underground stormwater reservoir? According to Colin Pitman this site has the potential and capability of storing wetlands cleansed stormwater 1.5 times the 20 GL storage capacity of Kangaroo Creek Dam in deep underground aquifers. You would have to be a brain dead Government to use Cheltenham for any other purpose given the critically of water to Adelaide and the immense damage stormwater and wastewater has done and continues to do to Adelaide Coastal Waters where some 9,000 hectares of old-growth seagrass forests have been lost. This has had immense implications for our beaches and the unique marine ecosystems dependent on the seagrass forests adjacent to our coast which has been turned into an underwater desert.
Also the Cheltenham Park Residents Association's Supreme Court Case to keep this land in public trust goes is scheduled to commence on Monday 15th June and is expected to run for a couple of days or so. They will be looking for support for the community to fill the public galleries over the sitting days.
Residents call on stormwater expert
Craig Cook Adelaide Now 8th May 2009
"Stormwater expert Colin Pitman will give evidence for the Cheltenham Park Residents Association in its Supreme Court action to halt a housing development on the Cheltenham racecourse site."
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25445924-2682,00.html
Thanks,
John Caldecott
President
Friends of Gulf St Vincent
Application to join the Cheltenham Park Residents' Association