The Hurtle Square Local Area will continue to evolve as a distinctive and vibrant neighbourhood with its fine grain residential and heritage character complemented with local businesses and cafes and improved connections to Hurtle Square / Tangkaira and the Adelaide Park Lands.

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1. Invest in fine grain pedestrian connectivity and greening throughout the area to support increased permeability to the main streets, Hurtle Square / Tangkaira, the Adelaide Park Lands and opportunities in the wider city.

2. Improve access to Hurtle Square / Tangkaira, including modifications to the service roads to improve access and permeability for pedestrians to and through the Square while ensuring consistency with the National Heritage Management Plan for the Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout.

3. An adequately sized library for the local area including potential co-location with a larger community centre in the Wakefield Gateway, Hutt Street or Hurtle Square Local Area. 

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 part of a library/community centre in the Hurtle Square or Hutt Street Local Area

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

6. Review and identify opportunities for at least one pocket or micro park in the Hurtle Square or Hutt Street Local Area.

7. Increase facilities and activities on offer at Hurtle Square to make it a ‘neighbourhood space’.

The place principles for the local area are:

• Investigate options to activate Hurtle Square / Tangkaira through conversion of the service roads into shared, pedestrian priority spaces, while ensuring consistency with the National Heritage Management Plan for the Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout.
• Support pop-up activities for festivals and events throughout the year. 
• Extend the Halifax Street mixed use zone further east to provide a wider range of essential services to support the surrounding streets to densify and diversify.
• 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 existing architectural and landscape character.
• Investigate applying the Planning and Design Code’s Historic Area Overlay to key heritage sites within the local area.
• Support adaptive reuse of vacant and underutilised buildings to preserve the heritage character of the local area, whilst contributing to moderate increases in residential density.
• Protect small businesses by maintaining small shopfront character and limiting the large tenancy spaces within larger developments.
• 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. Increase social infrastructure provisions to better support vulnerable members of the community who access services and spend time in the local area. 
• Prioritise north-south active transport connectivity.
• Investigate opportunities to support public transport to increase connectivity to other areas of the city, including considering the City Connector bus service and additional tram connectivity.
• Improve connections into the Adelaide Park Lands and throughout the local area by investing in public realm and local street greening.
• Strengthen north-south active travel routes in the local area, including crossings of east-west streets for people walking, wheeling and cycling.
• Improve active transport safety and priority by creating routes separated from the main north-south public transport corridor.