Human Settlements
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Residential Development
There are significant areas of residential development (84%) within the City of
Port Adelaide Enfield. The City was historically developed primarily as a
manufacturing and trade-oriented region, and residential housing for the
workforce was provided adjacent to the factories, industries and wharves. Much
of this housing was post-war public housing developed by Housing SA
(previously known as the SA Housing Trust). The legacy of the historic co-
location of industry and housing would be considered inappropriate today due to
insufficient ‘buffering’ between sometimes incompatible land uses.
Residential development dominates the western side of the Lefevre Peninsula
and south of the length of Grand Junction Road. Within, and adjacent to, these
areas there are also various sized areas of industrial and commercial
development, which in some cases results in significant interface issues. These
are particularly in regards to environmental impacts of some industries on
residential dwellings or sensitive land uses (e.g. schools, childcare centres), risk
of impacts of heavy industries on other industry types, and encroaching
residential development restricting existing industrial operations.
The spatial distribution of Council's population is reflective of the distribution of
the land uses. The City exhibits a trend for more densely populated areas along
the coastline (west of Mersey Road on the Lefevre Peninsula), and the south-
central and eastern sectors, with low residential densities to the east of the
Peninsula and to the north of Grand Junction Road.
The low residential densities on the eastern side of the Lefevre Peninsula and
the northern section of Port Adelaide results from significant industrial and
commercial activity historically associated with proximity to the Port. Similarly
the low population densities around Wingfield and Gillman are a result of large
areas of industrial land, as well as large areas of vacant land for which the
appropriate future land use is under investigation currently by the State
Government.
The low residential densities in the Gepps Cross area are due to the large
parcels of land taken up by State Sports Park and the former abattoir site, which
is now zoned 'Industry/Business (Gepps Cross Gateway)' and consists of
industry and a number of factory outlets. Although there is some residential
development to the south and east of the State Sports Park, the area is
dominated by recreation and sporting uses.
Regency Park is also an area of low population density as it contains significant
industrial activity, the Regency Park golf course, and the Regency Institute of
TAFE. Other sites with low residential populations include industrial areas at
Dudley Park and Angle Park, vacant land at Northfield, institutional land at
Oakden, the cemetery at Enfield, the TAFE at Gilles Plains and the Yatala
Prisons at Walkley Heights.
