PLANNING: "National heritage listing for Adelaide Park Lands"

Media Release
The Hon Peter Garrett AM MP, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts
The Hon Kate Ellis MP, Member for Adelaide and Minister for Sport and Youth
7 November 2008

The influential urban design of Adelaide - Australia’s first planned city - was today granted Australia’s highest heritage honour with its inclusion on the National Heritage List. The listing recognises the 1837 Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout as a technical masterwork which went on to influence the planning of other towns in Australia and overseas...

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