Update October 2022

The Boundaries Commission has accepted Campbelltown’s ‘Stage 2’ proposal and preparations for a formal investigation are underway.

New Adelaide Hills Council Boundary Change Committee

While the Council’s elected body has and will continue to maintain an active oversight of the boundary change matter, it has created a Boundary Change Committee (the Committee) to specifically review and provide boundary change advice to Council.

The Committee has been consulted by the Boundaries Commission regarding what matters should be considered as part of the investigation. We expressed that the investigation should be as thorough as possible and consider all relevant social, cultural, economic and environmental matters associated with a resident’s sense of place in a community. We also proposed that the Commission needs to engage a range of experts to appropriately look into the matter. We are advocating that the views of residents must be actively sought and that they should be given significant weight in the consideration of the proposal.

Next key steps

Following finalisation of the Commissions’ Investigation Plan and its Engagement and Communications Plan, the estimated cost of the investigation will be determined by the Commission and put to the Campbelltown Council for consideration. We expect this to occur after the upcoming Local Government election (November 2022). Campbelltown Council will subsequently decide whether or not the investigation should proceed (at their cost).

Further information

A letter is in the mail to all residents and should be received shortly.

If you would like more information on the Boundary Change Proposal, please contact the Boundaries Commission via telephone (08) 7109 7164 or their website https://www.dit.sa.gov.au/local-government/boundaries-commission .

We are also here to talk with you about the process and our Governance Team can be contacted on 8408 0400 or you can scroll down to the bottom of this page and sign up to our electronic mailing list to be kept in the loop.