V1 - ADVE01Z01MA IF you are looking to add a bit of spice to your life, West Tor- rens Council is hosting its in- augural Fire and Spice Festival next weekend. It’s an excuse to celebrate all things hot and spicy. Enjoy food trucks, guest speakers, cooking demonstrations and market stalls. There’s even a red-hot signature chilli dish, made especially for the event, then you cool things down with locally made craft beer, cider and gin. The event is at the West Torrens Memorial Gardens, 1 Brooker Tce, Hilton, next Sunday, April 14. It kicks off at 11am and finishes at 4pm. LAUREN NELLI Have Your Say We have drafted the 2019-2020 Annual Business Plan and Budget and Long Term Financial Plan outlining Council’s programs to deliver what matters most to our Community. Community engagement will commence on Monday 08 April 2019 and conclude on Friday 10 May 2019. The draft documents are available on Council’s website www.cityofpae.sa.gov.au and in all of our Council offices. All submissions will be received by Council until Friday 10 May 2019 and may be addressed to City of Port Adelaide Enfield Draft Business Plan and Budget, PO Box 110, Port Adelaide SA 5015 or emailed to consultation@cityofpae.sa.gov.au DRAFT ANNUAL BUSINESS PLAN AND BUDGET A Special Meeting of Council will be held on Tuesday 21 May 2019 commencing at 7 pm in the Council Chambers, 62 Commercial Road, Port Adelaide, for members of the public to speak on their submissions, make verbal submissions and ask questions concerning the plan and budget. All members of the community are welcome to attend. For more information contact 8405 6600. RS L SA /NT P R E S E NTS TH E BOOK TICKETS NOW through Eventbrite www.eventbrite.com.au 6.30 pm – 12.00 am FRIDAY APRIL 26TH 2019 Adelaide Town Hall Auditorium ADVERTISER.COM.AU SATURDAY APRIL 6 2019 NEWS 35 Push to heritage list 12,000 homes “knee-jerk reaction”. Con- tributory heritage places, of which there are about 12,000 across Adelaide, are defined as surviving examples of a par- ticular style of development that adds to the historical and architectural character of an area. However, they are afford- ed no extra protection under the Development Act. In his letter, Mr Matthews said the contributory items added “to our urban street- scapes enabling a pleasant re- laxing feel in our suburbs”. “People in South Australia buy houses in our older sub- urbs for a number of reasons that include a quiet neighbour- hood, pleasant streetscapes with trees and older houses of different designs and interest- ing front gardens,” he wrote. “Adelaide developers want to tear down the older heritage homes in our older suburbs and replace them with new homes.” He claimed those new homes devalued older proper- ties surrounding them and called for all contributory items to be protected from demolition. Property Council of SA executive director Dan- iel Gannon lashed out at the idea of stopping contributory properties from being redevel- oped. “This seems like another knee-jerk reaction from an in- terest group that wants to see SA handcuffed to the past, rather than creating a new fu- ture,” Mr Gannon said. “The development sector doesn’t want to see Adelaide’s heritage and character build- ings lost forever but we do want to see a sensible conver- sation about the state’s heri- tage and what future architecture and development looks like.” CALEB BOND THE president of the state’s peak community group has called on parliamentarians to protect about 12,000 heritage places from possible demo- lition. Tom Matthews – whose group, Community Alliance SA, represents 25 community and residents groups – has written to every state politician asking for wholesale protec- tion of contributory heritage items. But one of the state’s biggest development groups has described the proposal as a FEELING HOT: Callum Hann and Themis Chryssidis, from Sprout Cooking School, will present cooking demonstrations at West Torrens Council’s first Fire and Spice Festival on Sunday week. Picture: ROY VANDERVEGT/AAP Chilli fest turns up the heat