The Adelaide Park Lands area has been selected by South Australia Police as the preferred location for the Mounted Operations Unit’s new location.
The state government has acknowledged that Mirnu Wirra (Park 21 West) is the ideal location for SA Police.
Because the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital will be constructed on its current location at the Thebarton Police Barracks, the unit must relocate.
According to a government spokeswoman, planning and scoping efforts to establish the project’s cost and scope have already begun.
The government spokeswoman stated that any such location within Park Lands could only be utilized by the Mounted Operations Unit in accordance with the law.
If it is decided to move forward with this project, the state government will collaborate with Adelaide City Council to identify inaccessible parklands, such as the dilapidated, abandoned netball courts in Edwards Park, and to carry out repairs to restore them to parklands.
The police were given $2 million by the state government to prepare the transfer of their barracks.
Using the property would “keep away much-needed open space for the requirements of rising populations in the city’s south-west and from Wayville and Unley,” according to Adelaide Lord Mayor Jane Lomax-Smith, who is opposed to the location.
“We love horses and support SAPOL, but stabling, offices, equipment stores, and high fencing are not appropriate uses for irreplaceable, dwindling parklands that are recognized as part of the nation’s heritage,” the woman stated.
Premier Peter Malinauskas was encouraged to veto the idea by Dr. Lomax-Smth.
She stated, “Our municipal parks must not be viewed as free space for any enterprise that arises.
