10 January 2024

Council’s West Lakes Residential and Mixed Use Code Amendment (Privately Funded) was adopted by the Minister for Planning on 8 January 2024.

The Minister’s adoption concludes this Code Amendment process. The Code Amendment will come into effect when consolidated into the online Planning and Design Code and published on the PlanSA Portal by the Government’s Planning and Use Services Department.

In summary, the Minister agreed with the changes Council made to the original Draft Code Amendment following the public consultation process between September – November 2022. Key changes made were:

• A reconfiguration of the ‘Indicative Public Open Space’.
• Removal of the maximum 5 level building height.
• Further coverage in maximum 2 level building height.
• Reconfiguring of maximum 3 level building height.
• Reconfiguring of maximum 4 level building height more centrally located and closer to Frederick Road.
• Including the identification of future indent on-street parking on Lochside Drive.
• Extending the Waterfront Neighbourhood Zone into the Affected Area.
• Reconfiguring the area of the Urban Renewal Neighbourhood Zone and Mixed Use Transition Subzone.
• Including a second ‘Indicative Vehicle Access’ point along the Frederick Road frontage.
• Inclusion of traffic calming measures to the Lochside Drive access point.
• Including the identification of a ‘Future road widening for a left hand slip lane’ at the corner of Frederick Road and Lochside Drive intersection.
• Annotation of indicative Public Open Space as 20 percent.
• Apply the Interface Management Overlay to a portion of the Affected Area.

Visit the Your Say Charles Sturt project page for the final concept plan approved by the Minister for Planning in January 2024.

The Minister's adoption now concludes this Code Amendment. For further information visit the Plan SA's Planning Portal.