Granite Balls not up to scratch - Boucatt Reserve

Clearly, the Boucatt Reserve plans call for granite boulders:
 
Several of the recently delivered  boulders are already crumbling at the slightest touch.
(Note: The rocks are supplied by “Just Rocks” of Cavan, and are a form of Gabbro – see wikipedia :
“Ocellar varieties of gabbro can be used as ornamental facing stones, paving stones and it is also known by the trade name of 'black granite', which is a popular type of graveyard headstone used in funerary rites. It is also used in kitchens and their countertops, also under the misnomer of 'black granite'.


Update 7/1/2011:
Final turf laying after the boulders have been lifted on site:

 “What do they mean?” – it is possible that there are funerary associations intended. However one view from those on-site is that the boulders represent an “inverted” paw-print raised out of the historically  disrupted clay or pug hole of former use.

COUNCIL V BINGHAM (OMBUDSMAN)

“…expectation that the action will be discontinued..”

RECORD OF OUTCOME

Outcome Type: Order

Court of Origin: Supreme Court of South Australia

Action Number: SCCIV-10-874

Between: CITY OF CHARLES STURT, Plaintiff AND Richard BINGHAM, Defendant (Ombudsman)

Remarks:

The mediation was successful and some terms of settlement are being implemented. The parties seek an adjournment to enable that process to be completed in the expectation that the action will be discontinued before the adjourned hearing date.

14.12.2010 Order 1. No order as to costs.

                          2. Adjourned to 9.30 am on 1 February 2011.

That this matter be adjourned to Hearing on 1.02.2011 at 9:30am.

For Plaintiff 1 : Ms Richards

For Defendant 1 : Mr Meegan

Judge Withers 14.12.2010

(ci2067 14/12/2010 10:06am)

Beware the ‘high-rise’ culture

"A sudden increase in the planned stock supply of inner-city apartments should have us singing if we’re to believe spruiked reports of a huge housing shortage. However while the need for affordable rental accommodation is growing, with recorded low vacancy rates in many inner city suburbs, high-rise apartments are unlikely to satisfy the large number of homebuyers struggling to get a foot on the property ladder."

Beware the ‘high-rise’ culture

National Urban Policy Discussion Paper

Our Cities - building a productive, sustainable and liveable future is open for comments and feedback.
National Urban Policy Discussion Paper Open for Public Comment until 1 March 2011  This discussion paper is accompanied by a Background and Research Paper Our Cities - the challenge of change. Both of these documents can be downloaded from this website.

The background papers have some interesting data – see for example a chart of capital city population growth (as %) since 1910



-showing Adelaide’s  declining share of the national population growth amongst the other capital cities.
A report on this is carried at  Larvatus Prodeo  Blog

TOD-off, urge experts

Victorian Libs ditch TODs