Would you like to hear a great little bit of agricultural and land use policy, dear reader?

Well, do I have something for you.

“South Australia’s food producing and agricultural areas are one of our primary and premium industries which we are all immensely proud of and which we want to preserve and protect.”

“Protecting these areas, in turn, protects our food security, economic growth, local jobs, prized tourism areas and our state’s global reputation as a premium producer of food and wine.”

One could be forgiven for thinking that was taken straight from the Primary Producers SA (PPSA) policy platform.

Rather surprisingly, they are the South Australian Government’s own words – the rationale behind designating key regions around metropolitan Adelaide as “assets to be protected from housing sub-division as Environment and Food Production Areas”. Read it for yourself on the PlanSA website under the aptly titled section, The importance of protection.

This was spelled out in the 30-year Plan for Greater Metropolitan Adelaide (now the Greater Adelaide Regional Plan, or GARP) released in 2010 and updated in 2017 with the establishment of EFPAs.

However, last week the state government announced its intention to change these safeguards and redraw the EFPA........

© InDaily