This is what we do. We help you:

EXPLORE
Includes our regular Guided Walks, and self-guided Trail Guides

INSPIRE
Includes our biennial Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, as well as daily inspirational photos on Instagram

PROTECT
We speak up when your Open Green Public Spaces are threatened, and we campaign to save them

RESTORE
We undertake clean-up days and co-ordinate with other groups to rehabilitate or re-green degraded or formerly lost areas of Park Lands.

Our Objectives

We are an incorporated Association, and so we are bound by this Constitution. It contains these Objectives.

A) Vision

The Adelaide Park Lands Association is committed to a vision of preserving and, where possible, restoring the Adelaide Park Lands as the pre-eminent green open space precincts, surrounding the City of Adelaide, to continue providing the public with freely accessible areas for open-air recreation and environmental benefit.

B) The Objectives of the Association are to ensure that:

i) the Park Lands are reserved as a place for public recreation, leisure and enjoyment;

ii) the public, so far as practicable, has free and unrestricted access to and use of the Park Lands;

iii) the Park Lands are preserved and maintained to give priority to biodiversity, including gardens, grassland, water, wetlands, trees and other vegetation rather than buildings, fences or artificial surfaces;

iv) alienated areas of the Park Lands are restored to Park Lands

v) the open space character of the Park Lands as a place dividing the City of Adelaide from the suburbs is preserved;

vi) the Park Lands are preserved and maintained in a manner that enhances their special place in the design of the City of Adelaide;

vii) the amenity of the Park Lands is not impaired by inappropriate development on Park Lands;

viii) the Park Lands are included and maintained on State, National and World Heritage lists.

Our Association’s History and Constitution

Our Association was founded in 1987 as a non-profit community based organisation - a ‘watchdog’ to guard Adelaide’s greatest treasure: the world-unique, National Heritage-listed Adelaide Park Lands.

But we are much more than a watchdog. We offer a focal point for South Australians to explore, be inspired by, protect and restore the Open Green Public spaces that are matched nowhere else in the world. Follow the links above to see how YOU can get involved in any one of these four ways.

This is our Constitution: (PDF, 7 pages, 124 Kb).

On 18 April 2021, our members voted to change our name from “Adelaide Park Lands Preservation Association” to the simpler “Adelaide Park Lands Association”. The change was formally registered by the Office of Consumer and Business Affairs on 10 August 2021.