The West Terrace Local Area, will be transformed into a human scale tree-lined boulevard that prioritises people and transport over cars, creating an attractive and liveable western edge of the city.

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1. Address the form and function of West Terrace with a view to narrowing the roadway, reducing vehicle volumes and speed, incorporating active and public transport infrastructure, increasing greening and improving safe pedestrian crossings to the Adelaide Park Lands.

2. Encourage master planning of large and under-utilised sites to deliver mixed used development, social infrastructure and improve pedestrian permeability, amenity and activation.

3. Improve streetscapes of small intersecting lanes and streets, including widening footpaths, prioritising pedestrians, and improved signage.

4. Create fine grain connectivity, greening and pedestrian activation through connecting small streets and laneways, that enable people to wind from the southern residential areas centrally through the local area to North Terrace and the Biomedical Precinct including the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

5. Improve access to the Adelaide Park Lands, open space, community facilities and public transport for existing residents and to unlock future growth potential.

6. Identify opportunities for at least one additional children’s play space to serve the needs of the West Terrace and West End Local Areas.

7. Identify opportunities to provide additional young people/youth play provision (this may include expansion of the West Terrace skate park) to serve the needs of residents, located in the North Terrace, West Terrace or West End Local Areas.

8. Identify opportunities for a pocket or micro park to serve the needs of residents, located in the West Terrace or West End Local Areas.

9. Identify opportunities to provide a local level (at least 250-300 sqm) community centre to serve the needs of the south and south-west of the city, located in one of the local areas of West Terrace, King William Street, Grote Gateway or Whitmore Square.

10. 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:

• Develop West Terrace as a ‘boulevard’ to improve the identity, character and pedestrian experience along West Terrace, including ground floor activation in future development.
• Improve urban wayfinding to increase cohesiveness across the local area, including:
  • Improving streetscapes of small intersecting lanes and streets, including widening footpaths, prioritising pedestrians, and improved signage
  • Providing a continuous active transport north-south link within the laneway network to provide an alternative route to West Terrace

• 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:
  • Newmarket Hotel (State Heritage Place)
  • Former dwellings previously converted to commercial
  • Two storey shop tops
  • Warehouse conversions.
• Protect existing land uses that play an important role in contributing to the character and vibrancy of the area.
• Support mixed use development along West Terrace and on large and underutilised sites to achieve diversification of housing, additional local services and social infrastructure, and potential commercial uses, including a health focus to the northern end of the local area.
• Minimise land use conflicts by designing to ensure that residential uses can co-exist with supporting commercial and leisure functions.
• Facilitate the development of strategic places using contextual analysis to ensure the siting, scale and mass of the built form address interface issues and respect the surrounding architectural and landscape character.
• Investigate applying the Planning and Design Code’s Historic Area Overlay to key heritage sites within the local area.
• Use key corner sites to West Terrace to provide a strongly defined visual gateway to the city.
• Subject to addressing interface issues, West Terrace, Grote Street and the north-west corner of the local area will accommodate taller buildings with low to medium rise built form in the surrounding streets.
• Prioritise connecting key streets and destinations to the Adelaide Park Lands by increasing opportunities for people walking, wheeling and cycling to safely and conveniently cross West Terrace.
• Investigate alternate public transport infrastructure along West Terrace to support
• increased use of public and active transport modes (Strategy 6 – Establishing the City Loop).
• Diversify recreational uses within the south west Adelaide Park Lands with passive and active recreational options for residents and visitors. 
• Invest in public realm and local street greening to improve connections throughout the local area.
• In the long term, leverage the completion of the Greater Adelaide North South Road corridor by redirecting current commuter traffic to South Road by:
  • Exploring the potential to reduce the number of car lanes on West Terrace, creating space for walking, wheeling and cycling with a green buffer
  • Exploring a reduction in the speed limit along West Terrace.