Undoolya option slated

Former AZRI land proposed for a major subdivision. Photo ALEX NELSON

4/2/10: Chamber of Commerce chairperson Julie Ross says Alice Springs will become a ‘welfare town’ if the proposed subdivision of crown land south of Heavitree Gap doesn’t go ahead, reports Erwin Chlanda in the Alice Springs News.

The article refers to costing by a Government source of headworks for Undoolya  - east of the town – as 15 to 20 times that of the former Arid Zone Research Institute land.

A document from the Rural Residents Association shows the Undoolya option has been recommended by a succession of Government reports over a period of decades..