It’s been a busy year! Here is a quick summary:

1. General Meetings included the following:
   March – an engaging talk by Denise Schumann about Norwood’s early history and colourful characters
   May – a very successful, informal get-together at Lost Barrel
   August – the AGM with Tony Zappia from Studio 9 Architects informing us about the Coles redevelopment plans
   November – a pre-Christmas social night at The Norwood Hotel
2. Council and Other Meetings
   – Monthly NRA Committee meetings with one or more members attending most NPSP Council meetings
   – Private meetings with the Mayor addressing local concerns
   – Numerous sessions with council planners dealing with impending State Planning changes
   – establishing closer contact with other local associations such as Kensington Residents, Kent Town Residents, St Peters Residents, Rotary, Community Alliance, Salvation Army
3. Heritage Campaign
   The ongoing fight with the State Government about their development planning changes continued on many fronts. Several written submissions were made directly from the NRA and support was given to the Community Alliance of South Australia and the new Protect Our Heritage organisation. A Norwood historical walk guided by Denise Schumann was conducted in August as well as two heritage bus trips hosted by Rowena Dunk in September. We attended presentations by the State Planning Commission and helped precipitate the Dunstan Forum in November with the Premier, Planning Minister and Planning Commissioner. On-line and paper petitions were launched and continue to seek signatures from people concerned about heritage, while numerous calls have been made for residents to write to their MPs.
4. Other
   – A written submission to the Civil Aviation Authority raised concerns about the proposed helipad on the new Peregrine building
   –  NRA Committee members assisted Norwood Rotary with their post pageant Fair at Richards Park in November
   – A follow up presentation by Studio 9 Architects on the Coles redevelopment was organised and attended by NRA, Cork Tree and Council representatives

NOVEMBER NOTES – NORWOOD RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION

A few things to inform you all about:

1. Rotary post-pageant fair
2. Christmas social night
3. Dunstan Planning Forum
4. Coles re-development

ROTARY FAIR
Norwood Rotary will be holding a children’s/family fair at Richards Park after the Christmas Pageant on Saturday 23^rd November (see below).
The NRA will be assisting them in setting up and running the event as well as having our own stall there promoting the Association. We’ll also be selling some delicious marmalades and jams and maybe a few other items to raise some money. We welcome any other contributions to our table – if you think you can donate something please contact us at our email address (norwoodresassoc@gmail.com).

CHRISTMAS SOCIAL NIGHT
Please come along to our end of year get together for a more relaxed, informal gathering. It will be at The Norwood Hotel (in the room to the left as you come in from Osmond Terrace) from 6:00pm Wednesday, 27^th November. Like the previous happy hour, we’ll provide some finger food and you can buy drinks at the bar. It would be nice to see as many members as possible there. For you non/ex members perhaps you’d also like to come along and join/re-join on the night!

DUNSTAN PLANNING FORUM
This was held at the Norwood Concert Hall on the 4^th November and it was great to see many of you there. With the Premier, Planning Minister and Planning Commission Chairman speaking and a spirited Q&A session it was a valuable component of the whole engagement process. The premier invited us all to submit extra questions to his office (via dunstan@parliament.sa.gov.au) and has promised to respond to all queries. This is your chance to educate yourself further and/or apply more pressure. There is a consultation period of five months for the recently released Design Code and this will be essentially the final opportunity to help shape the new development planning process. Rest assured that your Association will be actively involved and will be writing a submission during this time.

COLES REDEVELOPMENT
The development application has now been lodged. You may have seen the recent Advertiser article about this. A few of us have been invited to find out more detail from the Architects themselves and we’ll report back on this immediately afterwards. Being a category Two application only adjacent property owners can make submissions/objections to the development (by 21st November). See our Facebook page for some more detail…

FREE CHILDREN’S FUN FAIR

At Richards park – nestled in between Magill Rd, entrance next to Heatworks, East of Osmond Tce & North of Verdun St

Come along and …
have lunch, enjoy the jumpy castle, purchase a lucky dip, talk to the jolly old fella and lots more

Between 11am – 1pm on 23^rd November
It’s on straight after the Norwood Christmas Pageant

Everyone who is concerned about the changes to State development planning should get along to this forum. An ideal opportunity to hear from all the leading figures and to be able to participate in the discussion. Take note of the requirement to RSVP and to submit questions in advance. See you there!