FORMER ROYAL SITE Overview of Demolition and Redevelopment Works

LOCATION: TOTAL AREA: 7 HECTARES

INTRODUCTION There will be over 1000 people The demolition works will be who will continue to work onsite carefully planned to ensure they This fact sheet aims to provide at SA Pathology. are carried out safely and in the community with a better accordance with government understanding of the demolition As expected with any site of regulations and industry and redevelopment of the former this age, there are a number standards. Royal Adelaide Hospital site. of legacy issues that require management. McMahon Services have been Over the past 160 years, the appointed as the Principal site has been an operational The demolition and redevelopment Contractor to complete Stage hospital with buildings added of the former Royal Adelaide One works. Demolition and and demolished during that time. Hospital site is one of the decommissioning is a core SA Health has now moved to biggest projects that the business of their organisation the new Royal Adelaide Hospital state has ever seen, creating and they have a long and and the former Royal Adelaide significant industry opportunities successful history of providing Hospital will be vacated by and creating local jobs. demolition and hazardous March 2018. material removal services.

Fact Sheet 1 Renewal SA PROJECT STATUS KEY PROJECT OBJECTIVES: In September 2017 the State Government made the decision Create a world class precinct to retain all elements of the project in public hands. ^^ Deliver significant social and community values for South Renewal SA will maintain full Australians. control over each stage of the project including the initial ^^ Deliver innovative and world- site vacation coordination in class buildings and public partnership with SA Health. spaces.

Next steps include the ^^ Provide a significant tourism commencement of the or cultural attractor. demolition and remediation Have an economic focus program while the vision and spatial master plan for the ^^ Advance the State’s ten redevelopment is finalised. economic priorities. Other aspects led by Renewal ^^ Create new employment SA include project management, opportunities. asset and site precinct management. ^^ Deliver an economically viable precinct that integrates with Renewal SA will also lead the the East End and supports marketing, communications, the city of Adelaide. place activations, community and stakeholder engagement of the Activated through a mix of uses site. ^^ Improve public activation through a range of cultural, commercial and recreational uses.

^^ Deliver the optimum mix of uses for the site.

Be connected

^^ Strengthen connections to Adelaide’s East End, the Adelaide Riverbank’s education and cultural precinct and .

Fact Sheet 2 Renewal SA FREQUENTLY ASKED ^^ With the delivery of the Will there be open space, and will QUESTIONS site managed by State it be accessible to the public? Government, this will enable What is happening at the former opportunities for private ^^ As part of the redevelopment, Royal Adelaide Hospital site? development and investment, more than two hectares; leading to creation of more almost one third of the entire ^^ SA Health has moved to the local jobs. seven hectare site; will be new Royal Adelaide Hospital designed to integrate with the and is well advanced in ^^ Examples of successful Adelaide Botanic Garden. vacating the former Royal State Government projects Adelaide Hospital site. include the Tonsley Innovation ^^ More than 70 per cent of the District, Festival Plaza site will be returned to the ^^The redevelopment of the redevelopment and Bowden. people of former Royal Adelaide for public use, which means Hospital site provides a once- What is Renewal SA’s role in the it will be more accessible to in-a generation opportunity to redevelopment? the public than it has been transform our city. as a hospital (with only 38 ^^ Renewal SA is leading per cent of the site previously ^^The site will become a thriving, the project management, publically accessible). carbon neutral, innovation and demolition, remediation, place mixed-use precinct including activation, asset management, Will there be new cultural cultural and community uses, site management and attractions on the site? accommodation, retail and coordinating SA Health with commercial development site vacation coordination. ^^The site has been identified and education and research as a potential location for a spaces. ^^ Renewal SA will also lead the new South Australian cultural marketing, communications institution, the ‘Adelaide ^^ Accommodation on the site and engagement with Contemporary’. will not be placed in the the community and key hands of individual owners. stakeholders for the life of ^^This will be ideally located on Rather, there will be a range the project. the eastern side of the former of uses that will support the Royal Adelaide Hospital site uses on the site and broader Who owns the site? to continue the North Terrace East End precinct such as cultural boulevard. ^^The Government of South student housing, aged and Australia owns and will ^^ A cultural attractor has not short-stay accommodation. continue to own the site. been determined and will Who will run this precinct? Will it be subject to government ^^ Individual buildings and be run by State Government? approval. parcels of land will be leased

^^The Government will continue for development, with titles to own the site. It will also to be retained by the State remain part of the Adelaide Government. Park Lands. The ultimate ^^These lease agreements will governance arrangements be for a maximum period of have not yet been determined 99 years. however with both ownership and the redevelopment within the control of Government the State has ultimate control to ensure the development that takes place is in the best interests of all South Australians. Fact Sheet 3 Renewal SA Will there be a hotel on site? What is happening to the ^^ Stage One will pave the heritage buildings on the site? way for a new open space ^^The Government is interested and sightlines into Adelaide in pursuing a minimum ^^ Heritage buildings will be Botanic Garden from North 5-star hotel for the site. The retained and reused, including Terrace. desirability of the site for a the Women’s Health Centre, hotel will be determined by Bice, McEwin, Margaret Will the public be safe during the the final mix of land uses Graham, and Allied Health demolition? recommended for the site Services buildings. through the site vision and ^^The demolition works will be master planning exercise. ^^ Each of these buildings has carefully planned to ensure a unique character and they works are carried out safely ^^ A hotel could be potentially will be used to provide quality and in accordance with located within a new activations for the site, as government regulations. development site or as part well as being integrated into of the adaptive reuse of an the long term vision for the ^^ Clear hoarding and signage existing building. site. will be installed around the site to contain the demolition When will the tramline extension ^^ Renewal SA will be and remediation works and to to the site be complete? responsible for delivering a ensure public safety. curated program of place ^^The tramline extension along activation across the site, Is there asbestos on site? North Terrace is expected bringing new life to the East ^^The obsolete buildings to be completed in the first End, helping to boost jobs, earmarked for Stage 1 quarter of 2018. stimulate economic and social demolition were built between activity and play a key role ^^The tramline will have a new 1950 and 1980. As is common in the future of the Adelaide station at the doorstep of with buildings of this age, Riverbank. the former Royal Adelaide they contain asbestos that

Hospital site. ^^ During the early stages of the will need to be removed prior demolition and remediation to demolition. What is happening to the site program, the activations and now? Does the site contain radioactive uses will be predominantly waste? contained to the heritage ^^The site will not be left vacant buildings and surrounding and unused during demolition. ^^ SA Health is responsible for open spaces. removing all known sources ^^ Renewal SA has been of radioactive waste. Site When is the Stage One appointed to oversee the remediation works will be demolition expected to start? redevelopment and is carried out safely and in committed to a program of ^^The Stage One demolition accordance with government events and activation on the is expected to support regulations. precinct. approximately 100 local jobs ^^ Once the removal of the with works expected to begin radioactive waste has been in November 2017. completed by SA Health,

^^ Stage One will see the Renewal SA will commission demolition of the East its own verification of the Wing, Hone Wing and Cobalt buildings by engaging a buildings. This process is qualified Radiation Specialist. expected to take up to a year.

Fact Sheet 4 Renewal SA How are the environmental Is there a danger to people who CONTINUE THE impacts being managed during may work or study in future? CONVERSATION the demolition? ^^ No, before the land is To find out more about the ^^The demolition contractor developed, environmental former Royal Adelaide Hospital is required to prepare a assessments (including site demolition or to discuss any Construction Environmental remediation where necessary) queries, please: Management Plan (CEMP), will be undertaken to ensure which identifies how all that the site is safe and Phone: environmental issues are suitable for the intended use. 1300 336 678 to be managed during the demolition. OUR COMMITMENT Email: TO YOU [email protected] ^^The CEMP will be prepared in accordance with the The State Government is mindful Visit: Environmental Protection that the site is well known, renewalsa.sa.gov.au/formerRAH Authority (EPA) guidelines and and there is a lot of interest in industry standards. Key items seeing the Site rejuvenated and covered in the CEMP include redeveloped. dust, noise, stormwater, Through a range of waste management, site communications activities, the contamination. community will be kept well informed of project progress and advance notifications of any planned inconveniences and or disruptions. Indicative image only – Stage One

www.renewalsa.sa.gov.au [email protected] +61 8 8207 1300 Published November 2017