Project update
Notice of Council Workshop - Monday 8 September 2025
Council has received the community engagement submissions for the draft South Coast Growth Strategy and held information sessions in late 2024 and early 2025.
To enable consideration of additional information provided from the State Government on its Greater Adelaide Regional Plan, Council is rescheduling the discussion on the draft South Coast Growth Strategy from its 14 July workshop to its 1 September workshop.
⏰ 5:30 pm, Monday 8 September 2025
📌 Alexandrina Council Community Chambers "Wal Yuntu Warrin", 11 Cadell Street, Goolwa
🤝Members of the public are welcome to attend the public gallery
Following the workshop, the draft South Coast Growth Strategy will be presented to Council for a decision at the October Council meeting, depending on the extent of amendments required.
Council would like to thank the community for providing feedback about the draft South Coast Growth Strategy.
Council received 365 survey responses on its My Say Website and 205 attended three drop-in sessions hosted by Council at Goolwa and Middleton.
Read the Council Report, Decision and community engagement feedback.
Key Documents
About the project
Alexandrina Council invited the community to share where they thought future growth should occur on the South Coast, including Goolwa, Hindmarsh Island, Middleton and Port Elliot.
With a housing affordability and availability crisis affecting communities across Australia, Council was asked by Federal and State Governments to identify locations suitable for housing growth over the next 30 years. As a result of community feedback, Council has considered different locations to accommodate this growth.
There are a number of factors that need to be considered when identifying possible areas for growth and one key factor is feedback from the community.
This draft strategy encompasses feedback received from the community in late 2023 when Council held Village Conversations at Goolwa, Port Elliot and Middleton. Community feedback will also be considered for any amendments to this draft strategy.
This draft South Coast Growth Strategy aims to provide clear guidelines about where the community would prefer development, and how much, and what infrastructure is needed to accommodate growth.
The draft Strategy will also guide strategic decisions such as how Council responds to Code Amendments proposed for our region to rezone land for housing and other development.
Council held three drop-in sessions to share the strategy and inform about the locations that were identified for consideration for housing development, and some of the opportunities and constraints of those locations.