Council Boundary Change Proposal - Rostrevor, Woodforde and Hamilton Hill

Project Update November 2020

You may have recently received a communication from the Mayor of Campbelltown City Council (CCC) regarding their proposal to review the boundary with Adelaide Hills Council.

What stage is the CCC boundary change proposal at?

The proposal is still in the consultation phase but, if in the future the boundary commission decide the proposal should go ahead, your property would become part of the CCC. Consideration by the Boundary Commission is an ongoing and lengthy process.

The recent CCC communication sent to property owners in Woodforde and Rostrevor contained information about council rate comparisons. Please note this comparison excludes the Regional Landscapes Levy.

What is Adelaide Hills Council’s position?

You may recall that following CCC initiating the boundary review in early 2019, we (Adelaide Hills Council) hosted a community meeting in Rostrevor on 3 September 2019 and subsequently conducted our own survey of property owners and occupiers in November of that year. The response was clear with 65% of respondents indicating a preference to remain part of Adelaide Hills Council. Having considered that result, we resolved not to support the change and to ask the CCC to stop the review process. Despite our request, CCC is determined to press on with the review process.

What can you do?

CCC will be sending you a survey from McGregor Tan research asking about your thoughts on the boundary change proposal. We urge you to have your say on boundary reform by completing the CCC survey.

When considering your responses, should you have any queries about Adelaide Hills Council’s services, your rates or the way your area is managed, we invite you to:

• contact us on 8408 0400 or mail@ahc.sa.gov.au and we would be pleased to assist
• visit Council’s dedicated Boundry Change Proposal Page at engage.ahc.sa.gov.au
• You are also welcome to contact elected members directly to discuss any queries you have regarding the boundary proposal and you can find their details at ahc.sa.gov.au

On Tuesday 2 June Adelaide Hills Council Mayor Jan-Claire Wisdom and Deputy Mayor Nathan Daniell made a deputation at the Campbelltown City Council meeting and declared their request. Read more in the Media Release and watch the deputation which was live streamed here.

Survey Results

Thank you to everyone who have provided their feedback as part of the Boundary Change Proposal Survey. All responses have now been captured by the project team and the results have been analysed.

In the Document Library to the right of screen you will see two results documents: a summary, which is a two page overview of the outcomes found, and a full report that goes into more detail about comments made.

To recap, the overall results were:

• 268 respondents
• 65% of all respondents were against the boundary change proposal
• 28% of respondents were in favour
• 7% of respondents were undecided or had no preference

When the survey results were considered by the Adelaide Hills Council, the Mayor and Councillors resolved:

To recognise and accept that the majority of Rostrevor (AHC) and Woodforde community respondents in the Council Boundary Change Survey are against the boundary change proposal. As such, Council requests that Campbelltown City Council, in light of these results, consider withdrawing their proposal with the Boundaries Commission.

Mayor Wisdom wrote to the Campbelltown City Council to convey this resolution and has since been seeking an opportunity to make a deputation to that Council to present the survey results and the Adelaide Hills Council’s resolution.