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PAGE 29 ruled regular SANFLW players would be ineligible for club footy in 2021. PAGE 35 MOSTLY SUNNY 18° PARTLY CLOUDY 19° LITTLE PARA: Current level: 8.2 GL | This time last year: 10.8 GL Keep informed Small business in firing line ELLOUISE CRAWFORD READERS are kept informed each week with Ben Yi is worried about having gagement with people. I share The Bunyip’s regular print edition, but also on- to relocate the business he has my recipes, I try so hard to build THE future of several Gawler worked hard over the past year up relationships with people, so it line via its website, Facebook, Twitter and In- businesses has become un- to establish and make successful. stagram pages. PHOTO: Ellouise Crawford will be very sad for me to leave certain with the approval of a here and that means I have to start Readers can subscribe to The Bunyip’s web- new Aldi store in Tod Street. site and read the newspaper in full, online, each from zero, which I don’t want to Wednesday. The site is home to several do. To join the conversation, and stay informed, smaller retailers and business- “Also, people will be sad as visit The Bunyip online at bunyippress.com.au, on es, including SDA Tax & Advi- well because it’s so convenient Facebook (facebook.com/bunyipnewspaper) and sory, Lifeline, Gawler Flooring for them to come here after on Twitter and Instagram (@BunyipNewspaper). Xtra, and Yoga + Wellbeing. work or during their break to The Gawler Getta Bargain buy a few things and they love variety store has been at the the food I sell, as well.” NEWS Tod Street site for nearly 30 Aldi’s interest in the Tod Editorial and Letters ......................................6 years. Most recently, the Animal Street site was made public Police News ....................................................8 earlier this year, when its de- Playford ........................................................21 Welfare League thrift shop and velopment application was first Sudoku .........................................................23 Ben Yi’s Asian Grocer have year old, he said he might have also I sell supermarket things as Out & About ........................................... 24-25 opened on the eastern side of the lodged. to leave Gawler altogether in well so the shopfront needs to “I just feel like the big giant Kids’ Zone .....................................................25 site. order to find a suitable space be big enough,” he said. Television .....................................................28 Business owner Ben Yi, – something he hated to think “People don’t like to park is taking over,” Mr Yi said. whose 12-month lease was due about. somewhere else to walk to the “I’m not against Aldi, but for CLASSIFIEDS to expire at the end of October, “In Gawler, there are not shop, so this is quite good in us to have two Aldis, that’s cra- Barossa Gawler Directory ..................... 30-31 said he was worried about how many ideal places for a busi- that sense because I have a free zy…we have a lot of supermar- Employment & Training ........................ 32-33 soon he might be forced to try ness like this because I want carpark right here. kets, it’s going to be crowded. Public Notices ..............................................33 to relocate. to cook food, so that means the “On the Facebook page for “The town will lose its attrac- Cash Columns...............................................34 With his business less than a kitchen needs to be proper and the shop, I have so much en- tion, I think.” Personal Notices ..........................................34 FEATURES Picture Perfect Pets .....................................26 Anger as second Aldi supermarket a step closer Kids’ Colouring-In Page ...............................27 Continued from front page ed, unless granted an exten- able amount of carparking, will given to the historic nature of Managing Director ....................................................... Ben Taylor Dozens of readers react- sion by council. be attractively landscaped and the town,” Ms Olsen wrote. Editor ....................................................... Nick Hopton ed furiously on The Bunyip’s The assessment panel, which will not result in unreasonable “The application submitted met virtually, heard two repre- amenity impacts.” appears to be proposing the . Postal Address: P O Box 160, Gawler SA 5118 Facebook page, saying “the . Telephone: (08) 8522 1233 Fax: (08) 8522 4100 last thing Gawler needs is sentations before deciding the The panel received three least amount of effort to ac- . Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm another grocery store… (that development application, which representations on the pro- tivate and enhance the site. It . Email Editorial/Letters: [email protected] will) severely clog the already involves the demolition of two posal and heard from two on is simply a large box, with no . Email Advertising/Photos: [email protected] messy streets”. buildings at 5-7 Tod Street and Friday. Carol Olsen of the interesting architectural fea- . Website: www.bunyippress.com.au The Aldi development, es- construction of the supermarket, Harmony Property Invest- tures or points of interest. The . Find us on facebook: www.facebook.com/bunyipnewspaper timated to cost $5.14 million, was “not seriously at variance ments Group, which owns the proposed development is in Published Wednesday mornings and circulating in the Town of Gawler, Adelaide excluding fit-out, includes with the policies in the (Gawler) adjacent Big W/Woolworths complete contrast to the rest of Plains Council, The Barossa Council, Light Regional Council, City of Playford, rooftop solar to power the Development Plan”. building, raised concern over the township, and if approved, Wakefield Regional Council and the District Council of Clare and Gilbert Valleys. “The application has been the appearance of the building would set a precedent for hav- Registered by Australia Post Publication No. SAC 0033. Annual subscription site, retail floor space of 1150 including postage $133 GST inc. square metres and an 86-space assessed against the relevant and how it suited the town’s ing complete disregard for the carpark. It will be the second provisions of the Town of historic nature. historic conservation of the THE BUNYIP NEWSPAPER CAN BE PURCHASED store in the area for Aldi, Gawler Development Plan,” “Harmony supports the intro- township.” Ekistics Planning FROM THE FOLLOWING TOWNS: with one at Gawler Green, the panel said. “In particular, duction of new investment in Adelaide, Angle Vale, Angaston, Andrews Farm, Auburn, Balaklava, and Design, on behalf of Aldi, Birdwood, Blakes Crossing, Bolivar, Cockatoo Valley, Craigmore, Davoren Evanston. Despite Aldi’s it is noted that shops in the the north, and supports greater submitted revised plans for the Park, Dublin, Eden Valley, Elizabeth, Eudunda, Evanston, Freeling, Gawler, request for seven-year plan- form of a supermarket are en- competition within the super- proposed development, which Golden Grove, Greenock, Gumeracha, Hamley Bridge, Kapunda, Kersbrook, ning consent, the panel has visioned in the zone. market retail sector; however, it said were amended in direct Lyndoch, Mallala, Mawson Lakes, Mount Pleasant, Munno Para, Nuriootpa, “...The