TICK TOCK goes the DFO clock - Part II
Via the Adelaide Advertiser:
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The proposed new shopping and entertainment centre at Kings Junction, Salisbury South.
Parafield Airport plane crash concerns halt Kings Junction shopping centre approval
Patrick Keam, Northern Weekly Messenger
March 2, 2018 8:30am
APPROVAL of a $150 million shopping centre in Adelaide’s north is on hold because of air safety concerns regarding nearby Parafield Airport.
Salisbury Council’s assessment panel this week deferred making a decision on the 30,000sq m Kings Junction complex until developer Michael Vidale and his company, GIC Australia, secured support from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).
The panel said additional checks were needed to remove any doubt about potential incidents, citing a crash at a shopping centre near Essendon Airport in Victoria in February last year.
A pilot and four American men died when their light aircraft was in the air for only nine seconds before ploughing into the shopping precinct.
A report on the cause of the Essendon crash is set to be handed down in May.
The Kings Junction complex, proposed for the corner of Main North Rd and Kings Rd in Salisbury South, would include major retail chains, a cinema, 13 specialty shops, a gym, fast-food restaurants and three entertainment venues.
Dashcam footage of Essendon DFO plane crash
Planner Damien Ellis, on behalf of Mr Vidale, told the panel it would take six months to get approval from CASA.
But Mr Vidale told the Northern Weekly he would continue to work towards commencing construction on Kings Junction by mid-2018.
“GIC will work diligently to prepare the necessary reports for (the) council, with the original development and construction timelines for the project still applicable,” Mr Vidale said.
The panel heard three anchor tenants had been secured for the complex.
The panel’s presiding member, Doug Wallace, said a CASA assessment was fundamental to the application.
“I am confident ... there will be nothing wrong, but the CASA assessment has to happen,” Mr Wallace said.
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Planes at the Parafield Airport flight training school.
The decision to defer was unanimous, although each panel member expressed the view that the application would have been approved otherwise.
The developers engaged wind engineering consultancy firm Vipac to assess the impact of the proposed buildings on the airport’s operations.
Vipac found the development “would not generate windshear and turbulence in excess of the criterion for safety” under National Airports Safeguarding Advisory Group guidelines.
CASA will now assess the Vipac report.
Panel member John Watson said he supported the development application, aside from the questions about air safety.
“Aviation safety issues are paramount and a referral to CASA is the best option, while we understand the pressures the applicants are under,” Mr Watson said.
“The Essendon Airport scenario demonstrates what could potentially go wrong, and I don’t think that is something we want hanging around this panel.”
Fancy that? A local council developing a conscious when it comes to urban development and air safety issues around airports, something is afoot I suspect -
MTF...P2
Via the Adelaide Advertiser:
The proposed new shopping and entertainment centre at Kings Junction, Salisbury South.
Parafield Airport plane crash concerns halt Kings Junction shopping centre approval
Patrick Keam, Northern Weekly Messenger
March 2, 2018 8:30am
APPROVAL of a $150 million shopping centre in Adelaide’s north is on hold because of air safety concerns regarding nearby Parafield Airport.
Salisbury Council’s assessment panel this week deferred making a decision on the 30,000sq m Kings Junction complex until developer Michael Vidale and his company, GIC Australia, secured support from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA).
The panel said additional checks were needed to remove any doubt about potential incidents, citing a crash at a shopping centre near Essendon Airport in Victoria in February last year.
A pilot and four American men died when their light aircraft was in the air for only nine seconds before ploughing into the shopping precinct.
A report on the cause of the Essendon crash is set to be handed down in May.
The Kings Junction complex, proposed for the corner of Main North Rd and Kings Rd in Salisbury South, would include major retail chains, a cinema, 13 specialty shops, a gym, fast-food restaurants and three entertainment venues.
Dashcam footage of Essendon DFO plane crash
Planner Damien Ellis, on behalf of Mr Vidale, told the panel it would take six months to get approval from CASA.
But Mr Vidale told the Northern Weekly he would continue to work towards commencing construction on Kings Junction by mid-2018.
“GIC will work diligently to prepare the necessary reports for (the) council, with the original development and construction timelines for the project still applicable,” Mr Vidale said.
The panel heard three anchor tenants had been secured for the complex.
The panel’s presiding member, Doug Wallace, said a CASA assessment was fundamental to the application.
“I am confident ... there will be nothing wrong, but the CASA assessment has to happen,” Mr Wallace said.
Planes at the Parafield Airport flight training school.
The decision to defer was unanimous, although each panel member expressed the view that the application would have been approved otherwise.
The developers engaged wind engineering consultancy firm Vipac to assess the impact of the proposed buildings on the airport’s operations.
Vipac found the development “would not generate windshear and turbulence in excess of the criterion for safety” under National Airports Safeguarding Advisory Group guidelines.
CASA will now assess the Vipac report.
Panel member John Watson said he supported the development application, aside from the questions about air safety.
“Aviation safety issues are paramount and a referral to CASA is the best option, while we understand the pressures the applicants are under,” Mr Watson said.
“The Essendon Airport scenario demonstrates what could potentially go wrong, and I don’t think that is something we want hanging around this panel.”
Fancy that? A local council developing a conscious when it comes to urban development and air safety issues around airports, something is afoot I suspect -
MTF...P2