Development Plan - City of Playford - SA.Gov.au

• a Neighbourhood Activity Centre near Medlow Road with a maximum 3500 sqm retail plus 500
sqm non-retail;
• a local centre with a maximum 500 sqm retail.
Penfield
The floor space in the Penfield area should comprise:
• a Neighbourhood Activity Centre on Petherton Road, with a maximum 6500 sqm retail plus
1000 sqm non-retail;
• a local centre with a maximum 750 sqm retail floor space on Womma Road.
6.4 Employment
Over the past 40 years urban areas have tended to be dominated by residential uses (largely
detached dwellings) with schools and shops catered for, and industrial uses being placed
elsewhere. Little consideration of the location of jobs has been given when new areas are
planned. As an example, Golden Grove is essentially a commuter dormitory suburb as there are
only shopping centres and schools that provide employment in the area. There were a couple of
very small industrial areas provided. In outer suburban areas there tends to be very little land
allocated for commercial uses.
Interstate, particularly in NSW and Victoria, employment lands have taken a position of greater
weight in the planning for new urban areas in recent years. The aim has been to provide a greater
proportion of jobs for local residents in the local area. This has economic, social and environmental
benefits in so far as people don’t have to travel as far to get to work, which means they spend less
on travel, have more time available for living and there is less pollution.
What sort of jobs should we be trying to provide in the local area and how much land should be
provided to cater for those businesses are two critical questions. We have approached the issue
from a couple of different directions. Firstly we undertook an analysis of job types and industries
that residents in Playford currently have. Secondly, we analysed how much land is typically
allocated for commercial and centre uses and zones in areas which tend to have higher proportions
of local jobs, in an effort to determine how much land we should be allocating.
Another base point is that there are around 1.3 jobs per household in a full employment scenario.
With approximately 40,000 additional persons living in the Area Affected in the next 10 – 20 years
there should be between 25,000 persons employed living in the area. It is considered that the
industrial lands to the south should provide the jobs in those industries, although local industrial
categorised jobs such as a local carpenter, plumber and motor repairer should be located in the
Area Affected as people should not have to travel more than a few kilometres for such services.
An analysis of the largely 1950s developed area bounded by Churchill Rd, Grand Junction Rd,
Regency Rd and Hampstead Rd found that 3.2% of the area is zoned Commercial and 2.9% is
zoned Centre. In terms of land uses this area has 2.5% classified as commercial and 2.6%
classified as retail. This area has good access for residents to local and neighbourhood service
and facilities which is feature considered desirable for the Area Affected, albeit it in a different urban
form.
We propose that a similar proportion of the future growth areas be allocated for employment
purposes (commercial and centre areas/zones) to that of the area reviewed in City of Port Adelaide
Enfield above. That is 5-6% of total land area.
The spatial distribution of these employment areas will be partially driven by the Activity Centres
hierarchy and the need to place the more commercial or potentially light industrial type areas along
major roads or where the uses can act as buffers to noise sources or other land uses that
residential uses would benefit from some separation. As such Main North Road and Curtis Road
represent key locations for a new commercial zone.
Playford North DPA -91-
Jul 08
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