The Hutt Street Local Area, with its well-established avenue of London Plane trees and good access to open space, will continue to support local residents and visitors with its unique offering of day, evening and night time experiences. The local area’s good access to open space and services support targeted growth while retaining the historic character of the development either side of the main street.

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1. Upgrade the Hutt Street main street including safe pedestrian crossing and conditions for walking, wheeling and cycling, review of angled parking and road function, and support for economic and business trading.

2. Encourage the amalgamation of smaller sites in the local area to deliver medium to high rise residential typologies.

3. Improve access to the eastern Adelaide Park Lands and Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16) through urban wayfinding and green street connections.

4. Provide additional young people/youth play provision, such as additional ‘pick-up’ sport facilities. This could be located within Peppermint Park/Wita Wirra (Park 18) or as part of a library/community centre in the Hutt Street or Hurtle Square Local Area

5. Provide additional children’s play space in the Hutt Street or Hurtle Square Local Area.

6. 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.

7. 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 or Whitmore Square.

The place principles for the local area are:

• Plan services for an increased population while maintaining the village charm and main street function of Hutt Street by prioritising pedestrian movement, extending trading hours and diversifying activity.
• Protect small businesses on Hutt Street and surroundings, by maintaining small shopfront character and limiting the large tenancy spaces to one central supermarket offering.
• Diversify housing supply by converting vacant or underutilised space above ground floor shops or small offices, repurposing existing structures, and revitalising heritage and character buildings through innovative adaptive reuse with a particular focus on shop top housing.
• New residential development near Hutt Street, East Terrace and South Terrace to retain the low scale historic character of the smaller internal streets.
• Facilitate the development of strategic places using contextual analysis to ensure the siting, scale and mass of the built form addresses
• Interface issues and respects the surrounding historic residential areas, including architectural and landscape features.
• Investigate applying new Historic Areas to identify and protect key heritage sites within the local area.
• Diversify housing supply through innovative adaptive reuse that preserves the heritage character of the local area, whilst contributing to moderate increases in residential density.
• Subject to addressing interface issues, Hutt Street will accommodate taller buildings with low to medium rise-built form in the surrounding streets.
• Maintain the festival vibrancy of the local Strengthen connections area by supporting and encouraging usage of event spaces throughout the year and strengthen connections.
• Protect existing land uses that play an important role in contributing to the character and vibrancy of the area.
• Minimise land use conflicts by designing to ensure that residential uses can co-exist with supporting commercial and leisure functions.
• Strengthen public transport usage by providing additional or more frequent bus routes and in the longer term, investigate the development of the City Loop through Hutt Street (Strategy 6 – Establishing the City Loop).
• Maintain Wakefield Street, Pirie Street and Hutt Street as the main connections to the east and south while encouraging transport modal shift.
• Strengthen green connections between Hutt Street and the eastern Adelaide Park Lands and City Squares, including wayfinding, shaded active transport and biodiversity corridors (city wide strategy Strategy 1 – A Green City Grid).