Good news! The Adelaide City Council has joined our call to Premier, Peter Malinauskas to release the hit list of 585 trees that he says he wants to destroy in Possum Park / Pirltawardli (Park 1 of your Adelaide Park Lands).
On 28 December 2025, we called on the Premier to “release the hit list” of 585 doomed trees.
The City Council has not only picked up this simple request, but has gone further, seeking much more detail on the Premier’s scanty so-called “plan” for a multi-million dollar “re-development” of the urban-forested North Adelaide golf course in your Park Lands.
The Premier’s sketchy diagram and imagery released on 18 December 2025, was remarkable for what it failed to reveal. It failed to identify any of the doomed 585 trees, nor areas to be set aside for car parking, maintenance sheds, a new clubhouse, nor storage sites for all of the temporary viewing stands that would be regularly unpacked and deployed within this urban forested Park / golf course.
At a City Council meeting on Tuesday 27 January, councillors authorised the Lord Mayor to write to the Premier seeking information that the Premier has so far not shared with the public, including:
- The sites, storeys and footprints of all planned and any future buildings and associated car parks
- The location and length and height of any golf course permanent fencing, and any anticipated “event”, temporary fencing
- Access points for the ancillary facilities such as mini golf course, the par 3 course and the driving range and details of any associated permanent fencing
- “Support zones” that would be needed during construction and subsequent events;
- Identification of the 585 trees planned to be removed; and
- The processes that will be put in place to ensure protection of aboriginal heritage.
New State Government Minister, Rhiannon Pearce, the member for King on Adelaide's north-east, has been a Minister only since September 2025 but has nevertheless been named as the "designated Minister" to make all planning decisions for the controversial North Adelaide Golf Course "re-development".
On her State Government webpage, Minister Pearce is described as “fighting for what’s important to her community”. The page goes on: “Rhiannon knows that a good representative is one that listens to and understands their community, and she will work hard to deliver what’s in their best interests.”
APA has congratulated Minister Pearce on her appointment and asked her to undertake the “extensive consultation” that the Premier promised 10 months ago. (PDF, 1 page, 153 Kb)
APA’s Acting President Ben Ayris has asked Minister Pearce to:
“identify, publicly, (and as soon as possible, before the State election) each and every tree which (to take the Premier at his word) must already have been earmarked as being identified for destruction, along with what is proposed to replace each one of them.”
You can make a similar request to the Minister, at this email address: Minister.Pearce@sa.gov.au
Come and see for yourself
Our Guided Walks, titled “It’s Not Just a golf course” are being offered at 5.45pm on multiple dates up until mid-March. Choose a date to come along. Book here:
https://events.humanitix.com/host/adel_park_lands