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City of NPSP adopts 2024-2025 Budget
02/07/2024
The Council has adopted its 2024-2025 Budget, with more than $58 million in capital works at its centrepiece.
This year’s Budget will result in an average residential rate increase of 7.01% or $149, bringing the residential (average) rate to $2,040.
To read more, visit: Media Release
Raising the Bar is back bigger and better in 2024!
01/07/2024
Serving up a feast for the mind and in its seventh year, Raising the Bar Adelaide returns to bars and pubs across our City on Tuesday 6 August.
Don’t miss out on this much loved event – book your tickets now! Raising the Bar Adelaide
Speakers at this year’s event will be discussing a wide range of subjects including your rights at work; bowel cancer; suppression orders versus silence; intimate relationships, diet, body language, elevating your career and how history is recorded.
To find out more, visit: Raising the Bar Adelaide and read words from our Mayor: Media Release
The Council welcomes back Santos Tour Down Under in 2025
24/06/2024
The City of Norwood, Payneham & St Peters has once again welcomed the exciting opportunity to be a part of the Santos Tour Down Under, with EFEX Men’s Stage 3 launching from The Parade, Norwood, on 23 January 2025.
With international media filming our leafy green streets and promoting the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters’ cosmopolitan lifestyle all over the world, being a part of the Santos Tour Down Under is an incredible opportunity.
To find out more, visit: Media Release
St Peters Street Upgrade Project sweeps 2024 Landscape Architect Awards
24/06/2024
The Council's $4.45million upgrade of St Peters Street has received four awards at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) 2024 Landscape Architecture Awards.
The St Peters Street Upgrade Project is a once in a generation project in that it traverses eight avenues and completely overhauled a tired residential street with crumbling infrastructure.
The upgrade took over a year to complete given its size and complexity, but the result has seen the amenity rise a very high standard, which includes wider footpaths, verge and median plantings and over 150 trees planted on both sides of the street.
To find out more, visit: Media Release
NAIDOC in the City of NPSP
21/06/2024
Our City will celebrate NAIDOC Week, with an official ceremony tonight, followed by a month long exhibition at The Gallery at St Peters Town Hall complex.
The exhibition, Kapi Wala (which means running water), is about the transference and movement of water in Kapingku Putintja (the rain time) and it showcases paintings and ceramics by artists from Iwiri Arts and KU Arts.
There will also be artist led workshops including basket weaving, storytelling, face painting, bush tucker and artefacts and jewellery making.
To find out more, visit: NAIDOC Week
Image credit: Ngura Tjuta Munu Tjukula Tjuta, Audrey Brumby, Iwiri Arts
Another new playground in our City - at Koster Park, Trinity Gardens
11/06/2024
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters will be home to another new playground with the installation of contemporary equipment at Koster Park in Trinity Gardens.
The Council has ensured that the redevelopment of the playground honours Koster Park’s rich history while ensuring it remains functional for years to come.
Last month, the Council officially opened new facilities at Cruickshank Reserve in Maylands and next month Burchell Reserve, in St Peters, will be open in the public.
To find out more, view our: Media Release
The figures are in for this year's AFL Gather Round!
06/06/2024
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters has enjoyed a financial boost from the 2024 AFL Gather Round weekend. Economic data for the month of April shows that the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, and in particular the suburb of Norwood, benefitted from an increase in spending this year compared to 2023.
To read the news story visit: InDaily
View our: Media release
New State Government rules to protect tree canopy
21/05/2024
New planning regulations have been introduced by the State Government to protect a greater number of trees.
Taking immediate effect, the new regulations will protect trees with a smaller trunk circumference.
The trunk size for regulated trees has been reduced from two meters to one metre, and the trunk size for significant trees will go from three metres to two metres.
Exemptions for trees based on distance from homes and pools have also been reduced.
The regulations have also introduced new pruning limits, allowing 30 percent of the tree’s canopy to be removed only every five years.
To find out more, visit: SA Government
Thank you for completing the Council’s Community Survey
15/05/2024
The Council would like to thank and acknowledge the 400 residents and 200 business operators who took part in our biennial Community Survey.
Undertaking the survey assists the Council on how to prioritise our services, programs and infrastructure while improving our performance to meet the community’s needs and expectations.
You can read the results of the Community Survey in the Winter edition of Look East, which will be delivered to your letterbox and available on our website in July.
Have your say on the Council's draft Annual Business Plan and Budget
10/05/2024
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters is seeking your input on its draft 2024-2025 Annual Business Plan and Budget.
We want to hear your comments on the projects, programs and services that the Council is undertaking in 2024-2025.
To provide your submission, complete the online form or the printable form, or you can write to us and/or attend the Information Night on Monday 27 May.
For more information and to have your say, visit: Community Consultation
