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Look out for Look East
09/07/2024
The Winter edition of Look East will be arriving in your letterbox any day now. Filled with stories about your community, our City, upcoming events and a message from Mayor Bria, this edition also features the Hall of Fame winner and finalists of the 2024 Eastside Business Awards, plus more!
Download: Look East: Winter Edition 2024 (PDF)
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Celebrate your Zest for Life this August
05/07/2024
The Council is once again hosting its Zest for Life program which encourages positive and active ageing.
Come along and join in the fun, meet a new friend and learn something new one of the tours, seminars, workshops or social activities.
To explore the Zest for Life program and to make a booking, visit: Zest for Life
City of NPSP and the AFL Gather Round in 2025
04/07/2024
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters has welcomed the AFL’s decision to lock in dates for the third instalment of AFL Gather Round in South Australia.
The Council hopes to once again be a part of the action next year, following the success of the games played at Norwood Oval in both 2023 and 2024.
With the nation’s spotlight on our beautiful City, the Norwood Food & Wine Festival that attracted more than 70,000 people, and a weekend that delivered significant local economic benefits, the Council has many reasons why it wants to host the AFL Gather Round in 2025.
So watch this space!
To find out more, visit: Media Release
Image credit: South Australian Tourism Commission
City of NPSP adopts 2024-2025 Budget
02/07/2024
The Council has adopted its 2024-2025 Budget, with more than $58 million in capital works at its centrepiece.
This year’s Budget will result in an average residential rate increase of 7.01% or $149, bringing the residential (average) rate to $2,040.
To read more, visit: Media Release
Raising the Bar is back bigger and better in 2024!
01/07/2024
Serving up a feast for the mind and in its seventh year, Raising the Bar Adelaide returns to bars and pubs across our City on Tuesday 6 August.
Don’t miss out on this much loved event – book your tickets now! Raising the Bar Adelaide
Speakers at this year’s event will be discussing a wide range of subjects including your rights at work; bowel cancer; suppression orders versus silence; intimate relationships, diet, body language, elevating your career and how history is recorded.
To find out more, visit: Raising the Bar Adelaide and read words from our Mayor: Media Release
The Council welcomes back Santos Tour Down Under in 2025
24/06/2024
The City of Norwood, Payneham & St Peters has once again welcomed the exciting opportunity to be a part of the Santos Tour Down Under, with EFEX Men’s Stage 3 launching from The Parade, Norwood, on 23 January 2025.
With international media filming our leafy green streets and promoting the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters’ cosmopolitan lifestyle all over the world, being a part of the Santos Tour Down Under is an incredible opportunity.
To find out more, visit: Media Release
St Peters Street Upgrade Project sweeps 2024 Landscape Architect Awards
24/06/2024
The Council's $4.45million upgrade of St Peters Street has received four awards at the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) 2024 Landscape Architecture Awards.
The St Peters Street Upgrade Project is a once in a generation project in that it traverses eight avenues and completely overhauled a tired residential street with crumbling infrastructure.
The upgrade took over a year to complete given its size and complexity, but the result has seen the amenity rise a very high standard, which includes wider footpaths, verge and median plantings and over 150 trees planted on both sides of the street.
To find out more, visit: Media Release
NAIDOC in the City of NPSP
21/06/2024
Our City will celebrate NAIDOC Week, with an official ceremony tonight, followed by a month long exhibition at The Gallery at St Peters Town Hall complex.
The exhibition, Kapi Wala (which means running water), is about the transference and movement of water in Kapingku Putintja (the rain time) and it showcases paintings and ceramics by artists from Iwiri Arts and KU Arts.
There will also be artist led workshops including basket weaving, storytelling, face painting, bush tucker and artefacts and jewellery making.
To find out more, visit: NAIDOC Week
Image credit: Ngura Tjuta Munu Tjukula Tjuta, Audrey Brumby, Iwiri Arts
Another new playground in our City - at Koster Park, Trinity Gardens
11/06/2024
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters will be home to another new playground with the installation of contemporary equipment at Koster Park in Trinity Gardens.
The Council has ensured that the redevelopment of the playground honours Koster Park’s rich history while ensuring it remains functional for years to come.
Last month, the Council officially opened new facilities at Cruickshank Reserve in Maylands and next month Burchell Reserve, in St Peters, will be open in the public.
To find out more, view our: Media Release
The figures are in for this year's AFL Gather Round!
06/06/2024
The City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters has enjoyed a financial boost from the 2024 AFL Gather Round weekend. Economic data for the month of April shows that the City of Norwood Payneham & St Peters, and in particular the suburb of Norwood, benefitted from an increase in spending this year compared to 2023.
To read the news story visit: InDaily
View our: Media release
