The Wakefield Gateway Local Area will transform into a vibrant and thriving urban locale, centred around a pedestrian scale boulevard and catering to the needs of its existing residents while welcoming people from the eastern suburbs into the city.

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1. Invest in local infrastructure, particularly focused on improving public transport connectivity and access to open spaces to unlock the area’s full development potential.

2. Create fine grain connectivity of Wakefield Street to surrounding destinations and services with strong local and active transport corridors.

3. Encourage master planning of large and under-utilised land parcels central to the local area to contribute to the local identity and improve pedestrian permeability, amenity and activation.

4. Support mixed use development to bring a diversity of economic benefits to the area, from increased services to better connected urban streets supported by active shopfronts and businesses.

5. Provide at least one additional children’s play space in the Wakefield Gateway or East End Local Area.

6. Identify an existing public space in the Wakefield Gateway or East End Local Area to provide a ‘neighbourhood’ park function. East Terrace Glover Playground or Hindmarsh Square are initial starting points for review

7. Review and identify opportunities for at least three pocket or micro parks in the Wakefield Gateway or East End Local Area

8. Investigate the replacement of the Hutt Street Library including potential co-location with a Box Factory replacement community centre in the Wakefield Gateway, Hutt Street or Hurtle Square Local Area.

9. Review opportunities for an indoor sports centre to meet the needs of the south and north-west of the city, located in one of the local areas of West Terrace, West End, King William Street, Grote Gateway, Wakefield Gateway, Hutt Street or Whitmore Square.

The place principles for the local area are:

• Diversify housing supply by converting vacant or underutilised buildings, repurposing existing structures, and revitalising heritage and character buildings through innovative adaptive reuse with particular focus on vacant office buildings.
• Protect small businesses by maintaining small shopfronts and limiting the large tenancy spaces within larger developments.
• Divert through traffic from Wakefield Street while maintaining local vehicle access within the city.
• Create protected cycle lanes along Wakefield Street as a key east-west route linking with major attractors such as schools and the Adelaide Central Market.
• Widen Flinders Street footpaths and increase pedestrian crossings with safe, shaded cycle facilities, supporting the densification of housing.
• Maintain the identity of Angas Street and improve laneway connections to the more diversified offerings on Wakefield Street and Hutt Street.
• Improve connections into the surrounding Adelaide Park Lands and throughout the local area by investing in public realm and local street greening.