The City Council wants to nearly double the population of the CBD and North Adelaide. But there are questions over whether the city can hold 50,000 residents and what it could mean for Adelaide's skyline.
00:00Adelaide's founder Colonel William Light had a vision, a city within a park.
00:07Nearly 200 years later, not everyone wants to live in the CBD.
00:11Australians on the whole have not been used to living in a house without a garden and off-street parking.
00:18Adelaide's Lord Mayor wants to change that sentiment and have 50,000 residents in the CBD in North Adelaide by 2036,
00:25nearly doubling the population. She says the city needs it.
00:29One of the issues for retail survival and in fact transport order is to have more people going shorter distances to work,
00:38to have shoppers walking to the shops.
00:41The last time that many people were living in the city was the early 20th century, when large families lived in crowded housing.
00:48After World War II, families moved to the suburbs.
00:52So there was kind of a gutting out of the city over those years.
00:55And since then there's been a bit of a move back towards the city.
00:59That move has been partly driven by international students and migration.
01:03Single bed apartments to meet a student demand is not going to reach your 50,000 people.
01:09You actually need to build development that will accommodate three and four people per household.
01:13The council's plan requires 1,000 new homes each year and relies on private development.
01:19It comes in fits and starts, they have to get feasibility and capital and they have to struggle against construction costs which are quite high at the moment.
01:28So there's many points where delivery of housing can fall down or be disrupted.
01:33Jamie McClurg has nearly completed building a three tower apartment in North Adelaide.
01:37The former La Cornue site was vacant for more than 30 years as various plans fell over.
01:42It's left him sceptical about the council's target.
01:45I would just expect the people that are leading us to understand the math that they're committing to and deliver on it.
01:51The council has 11 years to reach its target.
01:54Earlier since the council had seven to their previous two days.
01:55The council has established where we went and started figuring out how to live.
01:56The council has Quandoナシュファース in the heels of the council We wanted to install the acion this kind of academic excellence.
01:57Finally, let's start placing your 100 degrees in the early days.
01:58And please note that that it is at 3.5 at the state of the council.
01:59Now we have an Imm λ was going to help and have 217 in the danza audit sector.
02:01And our land is located here on the south coast.
02:03The council has introduced our city before the council's under helady.
02:04There is a government department as leaders told us that they may now resort like Egyptian boards and intercons,
02:05to be there.
02:07It is astral.
02:08We also have to stand anywhere with the council.
02:10The council has already exposed the department of leadership and inter crouches.
