These demolitions are the unfortunate legacy of the newly elected Council of 1992. And once again in 2006 the present Council voted to not list any properties where the owner objected in North Adelaide.

My honest belief is that, since the early 1990s, it¹s been open slather for any building that was not designated on any sort of heritage list and worryingly, that includes many properties that most of us would have assumed were protected.

The following pictures illustrate what has needlessly gone since voluntary listing.
Here are some examples of what has gone or is about to be demolished.

Recent North Adelaide demolitions due to voluntary listing

103 McKinnon Parade Demolition approved this year.		203 Gover Street Demolition approved two weeks ago.
Cafe Paesano Demolition approved this year.		North Adelaide Village Now demolished - which do you prefer?
'Edgehill' corner of Strangways and Mills Terrace. Gone last year.		Finniss Street stable Gone last year.
109 & 105 McKinnon Parade Gone this year.
Tormer Girs School, Childers Street Red Cross site. Heritage lost before it was even found.		Tormer Girs School, Childers Street Red Cross site - truss detail.

Recent City building demolitions due to voluntary listing

The Australia Building, Waymouth Street This could have been the ultimate true New York style apartment building in Adelaide.
Waymouth Street. An entire street-scape, as pictured, has been lost.		The Criterion Hotel - Gone
Left Bank building Hindmarsh Square		RAA Hindmarsh Square
Blumensteins Grenfell Street		Blumensteins detail

While cities like Sydney and Melbourne are successfully converting warehouse buildings into funky, popular warehouse apartments, we in Adelaide have witnessed the demolition of the most significant Warehouse building in Adelaide, the Repco Warehouse building in King William Street. Likewise Southcotts, in Gilles Street, and the former ANZ Office furniture warehouse in Waymouth Street are other examples of lost opportunity.

Recent warehouse demolitions due to voluntary listing

Repco Warehouse, King William Street		Southcott Engineering warehouse Gilles Street
Tam O'Shanter Place off Grenfell Street Art Deco warehouse.