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WELCOME.

This is our media hub of all things Burnside.

A hub for local news about people, businesses and happenings in our community.

You will see some beautiful photos of Wyfield Reserve, one of Burnside's biodiversity sites, at the top right of this page.



WELCOME.

This is our media hub of all things Burnside.

A hub for local news about people, businesses and happenings in our community.

You will see some beautiful photos of Wyfield Reserve, one of Burnside's biodiversity sites, at the top right of this page.


  • Christmas Card Competition

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    Mayor's Christmas Card Design Competition

    Mayor Anne Monceaux invites children in Years 3 -4 to help us capture the spirit of Christmas by designing our annual Christmas card for 2021.

    Theme: What makes an Australian Christmas?

    Who: Burnside school children in Years 3-4

    Medium: Draw, paint or do any form of design

    Enter online or through your school.


  • Burnside Highlights 29 September 2021

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    Mayor of Burnside Anne Monceaux shares this week's Burnside Highlights from our 28 September Council meeting.

    Summary:
    ✅ Dulwich Community Centre to be redeveloped in 2022/23
    ✅ Nature Festival Inspired by Trees exhibition at the Burnside Civic Centre
    ✅ Active Ageing Week activities
    ✅ Bell Yett Reserve Master Plan out for consultation
    ✅ Award nomination for The Shed.

    This is just a summary of some of the things happening within the City of Burnside. You can read the full minute's from the meeting at bit.ly/BurnsideAgendasMinutes

  • Walker's Violet Farm - Windback Wednesday

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    Alf Walker’s 14-acre violet farm near Magill was a favourite Sunday excursion during the 1920s. In its heyday, the farm attracted 2,000 people each weekend. Visitors paid six pennies to enter, picking as many violets as they could carry and enjoyed afternoon tea at the farmhouse or had a picnic in the paddock.

    Pictured: Walker's Violet Farm, circa 1924. Burnside Local History Collection.

  • Active Ageing Week 4 – 10 October 2021

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    Move Your Way

    Active ageing includes staying physically active, staying mentally active, and staying socially connected and active within your community. Connecting with others, learning new skills, making an ongoing contribution to society, and doing the things that give us a sense of purpose are all important to ageing well.

    Kana Nathan

    At almost 83 years old, Kana Nathan is more active than most 50 year-olds! He runs a weekly Fit and Fab class at Burnside Council to help seniors improve their health and fitness. “As we mature our body undergoes physical and physiological changes,” he says. “We have to accept that as a reality if we want to actively age.” Losing muscle mass means losing muscle strength. With age we are less flexible and our joints less forgiving. Mobility is challenged, reflexes slow, coordination is poor and our balance is affected. “We can’t stop the ageing process but we can slow it,” Kana says. “We concentrate on resistance training to increase and maintain muscle mass and power and that is also good for bone health.” In Kana’s group the youngest member is mid 70s and the oldest is 94! Kana says there is a focus on balance exercises as better balance means less falls and injuries. “We teach them what to do if they have a fall at home, how to safely roll from their back to their side, to use furniture to help get themselves up, and always call a family member to let them know.” The class always contains some general health and wellbeing tips such as how to walk safely on uneven surfaces by lifting the toes and placing the heel down first. “I also show them how to breathe properly,” Kana says. “Increasing the volume of lung capacity helps the body absorb oxygen and expel carbon dioxide.” In addition there are brain exercises, meditation and mindfulness. “The class is not just about exercise, it is health education as well,” Kana says. “Did you know that 50 per cent of the body’s bones, muscles, nervous system and blood supply is in the lower limbs?”

  • Active Ageing Week 4 - 8 October

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    Annie Reid was terrified of the prospect of retirement as she had no hobbies. “I put a spurt on and joined a Bonsai Club,” she says. After two years with a regular hobby she retired in 2014 at the age of 64. Having been a teacher for more than 40 years she soon missed it and after only a year she returned to short term contracts and relief teaching.

    “I am not good at being bored,” she says. “I had been selling some of my art at Pepper Street and I liked the feel of the place.” So she signed up as a volunteer and spends 3 days each fortnight working in the coffee shop and gift shop. “After a career of teaching adolescents it was nice to have adult conversation,” she jokes.

    She ‘officially’ retired at the end of 2020 at the age of 71 but keeps very active both physically and mentally. “I have done more reading in retirement than in my life,” she says. “I read more than 40 books in a year, fiction and non-fiction.” She also walks a lot to keep fit.

    But it was her love of Japan that brought about her art passion. “We had visited Japan several times and I had seen the Temari, exquisitely embroidered material balls. Temari balls are a folk art form and Japanese craft, originating in China and introduced to Japan around the 7th century A.D. ‘Temari’ means ‘hand ball’ in Japanese. “The balls were used for play by young girls and then the mothers started embroidering them and they became an art form,” Annie says. Annie learnt how to make them and now displays and sells them at Pepper Street.


  • Greenhill Road / Hallett Road intersection upgrade works commence

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    Concept design for the intersection
    *** UPDATE JULY 2023***

    To improve community road safety, the Greenhill Road/Hallett Road intersection will be upgraded following a successful grant allocation from the Federal Black Spot Safety Program.

    Greenhill Road is under the care and control of the Department of Infrastructure and Transport (DIT). A staged, formal design process has been undertaken that includes consideration and approval by DIT as it progresses. Complexities and considerations have delayed the works due to the unavoidable bus and heavy vehicle movements having to be accommodated.

    Detailed design has been undertaken to upgrade the intersection based on a DIT approved concept plan included on the reverse of this letter. This design has now reached 100 per cent completion.

    The upgrade involves restricting the right-hand turn from Hallett Road into Greenhill Road to one lane. A dedicated right turn lane into Hallett Road from Greenhill Road will be created and there will be a dedicated lane for traffic turning right out of Hallett Road onto Greenhill Road.

    Efficiency of right turn movements from Hallett Road will be improved due to the dedicated receiving lane on Greenhill Road. Traffic modelling indicates this will offset the loss of the second right turn lane.

    It is anticipated that these arrangements will reduce the vehicle conflict at the intersection and make it simpler and quicker to move through. In particular, the focus is to address the high number of right angle crashes.

    The upgrade works will include resurfacing the intersection, installing a small traffic island, landscaping of the central island, minor kerbing realignment and new line marking. Minor extensions to on-street parking restrictions are also required.

    It is anticipated that the works will take approximately four to six weeks to complete.

    Council apologises for any inconvenience this may cause, however these works are essential to ensure improved safety of the area.

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    The City of Burnside has received $141,900 in grant funding from the 2021/22 Australian Government Black Spot Program for road safety works at the intersection of Greenhill Road and Hallett Road, Burnside.


    In October 2020 Council submitted a funding application for the program after concerns had been raised by residents about the intersection. As part of the application process, Council arranged for an independent assessment of the intersection to be undertaken that confirmed the need for crash mitigation and intersection improvement works.

    A Black Spot intersection is defined as one where three ‘injury’ crashes have occurred within a five-year period. At the intersection of Greenhill Road and Hallett Road, 28 crashes occurred at the intersection with ten (10) of those resulting in injury within the relevant five-year reporting period 2014 to 2019. Of the ten (10) crashes, eight (8) were a result of ‘right angle’ or ‘right turn’ crashes. Note: the human body is particularly vulnerable to injury from ‘side on’ impact.

    Greenhill Road is an arterial road under the care and control of the Department of Infrastructure and Transport while Hallett Road is a primary collector road under the care and control of the Council. It is estimated that approximately 10,000 vehicles travel through this intersection every day.

    The proposed treatment will involve the modification of lane line markings, kerb alignments and the installation of a seagull traffic island. This will reduce right turn movements from Hallett Road into Greenhill Road from two lanes down to one in addition to creating an exclusive receiving lane for west bound traffic. An exclusive right turn lane will also be created for vehicles turning into Hallett Road from Greenhill Road.

    The changes will also include:

    • Modified slip lane kerb returns that will better accommodate bus turning movements within this intersection.
    • A much simplified and clearer intersection that removes uncertainty created mostly by the two uncontrolled, offset right turn lanes on the Hallett Road approach.
    • A review of public street lighting and upgrades as part of this project to provide greater visibility of the intersection at night time.

    Given the overwhelming community road safety benefits this project will achieve at no financial cost to Council, the project work will commence as soon as practicable.

  • Snow in Burnside - Windback Wednesday

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    Adelaide has experienced a few cold days this week, but not this cold! This photograph from the Local History Collection is of the Burnside Council Centre car park in the 1980s before the Civic Centre redevelopment. Have you ever seen snow in the Burnside area?

  • Young Leaders' Forum

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    Council hosted an event for Young Leaders in the Ballroom on Tuesday 21 September with 40 students from Seymour College, Pembroke School, St Peter’s Girls’ School, Mary MacKillop College and Marryatville High School with a theme of Respect.

    The Welcome to Country was given by Senior Kaurna man Mickey O’Brien.

    The students heard a key note address from former Senator Natasha Stott Despoja. Natasha spoke of her own personal journey as the youngest woman ever to enter Federal Parliament in Australia and her leadership roles in the Australian Democrats from 1995 to 2008.

    She said her first take out about leadership is inclusion. “Leadership is under scrutiny in Australia now,” she said. “Some attitudes are being called out and challenged. It is important as this forms our attitudes towards leadership.”

    She advised the audience to look at who they admire and the traits that they have, both the good and bad traits.

    Her second take on leadership is about respect. “Violence is preventable,” she said. “Gender inequality and disrespect is at the core of this violence. And this is at the core of the solution.”

    She urged the students to do what they could, no matter how small. “Support charities, look at school policies, be a good bystander and call out inappropriate behaviour. The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.”

    Natasha said education is the great equaliser. “It is a serious global challenge for girls to access education. The best leaders are investing in girls through education,” she said.

    She described empowerment as giving someone the tools to create change and then to listen to what they have to say. “Leadership is a mindset. Real and lasting improvement requires us all to be leaders. In home, school, sport clubs.”

    A discussion panel followed with Fiona Dorman, Chair Premier’s Council for Women, John White, Young Australian of the Year for City of Burnside and Amber Brock-Fabel, Young Achiever of the Year SA Environment winner, They encouraged people to stand up and be heard, to call out injustice when they saw it and to recognise that young people sometimes need guidance, mentoring, direction and support.

    The students then undertook a workshop to discuss key learnings and takeaways.




  • Demolition denied

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    The City of Burnside’s Council Assessment Panel (CAP) has rejected a request to demolish a Local Heritage Place located at 2 Wootoona Terrace, St Georges. Built in 1919-20, the house is an example of an ‘Interwar’ sandstone Californian Bungalow style dwelling.

    The CAP, that comprises four Independent Members and one Elected Member, assessed the application to demolish the house on Monday 6 September. The application was refused on the basis that local and state heritage places should be preserved and enhanced, and the building was able to be rehabilitated.

    The house was built for Florence and Richard Duncan. Richard was the youngest son of James Duncan, founder of Duncan and Fraser, a vehicle manufacturing company founded in 1865 in Adelaide that built horse-drawn carriages and horse trams, and subsequently bodies for trains, electric trams and motor cars, becoming one of the largest carriage building companies in Australia.

    At the time the house was built in 1919, Duncan and Fraser was solely focused on manufacturing the Ford Model T motor car.

    Florence and Richard, along with James, were the founding members of The Automotive & Motor Cycling Club of South Australia in 1903, now known as the Royal Automobile Association.

    In 1986 a Burnside Heritage Survey recognised the house at 2 Wootoona Terrace as one of local heritage significance. It was listed as a Local Heritage Place in 1998.

    The applicant has a right to appeal the decision in the Environment, Resources and Development (ERD) Court.

  • Burnside Highlights 15 September 2021

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    Mayor of Burnside Anne Monceaux with the Burnside Highlights from our 14 September Council meeting.

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