The West End Local Area will continue to evolve as one of the city’s most diverse and vibrant neighbourhoods through increased education, health and medical uses, and more residential development supported by improved access to open space and community facilities.

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1. Adaptive reuse of high vacancy commercial buildings.

2. Master planning of strategic sites and main streets to leverage recent investment into the local area by all levels of government and attract further mixed use and residential development.

3. Investigate linking Light Square / Wauwi to its western edge, to provide better access and permeability through the local area and support activation of the space.

4. Invest in infrastructure to support active transport and the pedestrian experience on Currie Street through reduced reliance on use for vehicles travelling through the city.

5. Manage the interface between the night time economy and population growth with measures to maintain safety and ensure appropriate sound mitigation.

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

• 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 high vacancy commercial buildings and returning dwellings previously converted to office back to residential use.
• Support the high growth potential of the local area through mixed used medium to high rise buildings supported by local services, social infrastructure and retail amenities.
• Minimise land use conflicts by designing to ensure that residential uses can co-exist with supporting commercial and leisure functions.
• Prioritise student accommodation and services due to proximity to education facilities and subsequent dominant student demographic.
• Support and distribute pop-up activities for festivals and events throughout the local area. Activate the public space within Light Square / Wauwi through a master planning process, including consideration of traffic movement and pedestrian access to the Square to facilitate the creation of an oasis within the city while ensuring consistency with the National Heritage Management Plan for the Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout.
• Strengthen green connections in the western areas of the city and to Light Square / Wauwi and the Adelaide Park Lands, including wayfinding, shaded active transport and biodiversity corridors (Strategy 1 – A Green City Grid).
• Create an accessible pedestrian centred area to further activate the streets and increase safety.
• Create protected cycle paths along Morphett Street and an east-west cycle route along Waymouth Street, as part of a dense grid of quality cycle routes, to enable more people to cycle.