City of Port Adelaide Enfield council adopts | Australian Markets

A serious thoroughfare working by way of one of South Australia’s star seaside suburbs might quickly be a smoke-free zone.

Port Adelaide and Enfield councillors voted unanimously this month for a report into making the western part Semaphore Rd, which connects Semaphore Beach and its well-known jetty with a line of retailers and eating places, free of cigarettes and vapes.

Semaphore councillor David Wilkins proposed the movement and informed NewsWire this week a Semaphore native had requested the council to contemplate the ban.

“We actually had a local resident reach out to our mayor, who raised the concept of it,” he stated.

“The resident is particularly passionate about it because she lost her father in 2020 to sinus cancer, which they have shared with us, was likely caused by passive smoking.

“As a result of that, she’s asked whether we can put in smoke free areas, so we’re protecting people in the community.”

Semaphore lies in Adelaide’s western district, bordering Port Adelaide to the east and West Lakes to the South.

It’s a common vacationer spot, with the foreshore clock tower, jetty and steam prepare rides that run from the seaside to Fort Glanville and back all drawing in households from town and interstate.

The retro Odean Star cinema additionally sits on Semaphore Rd alongside eateries like Zambrero and Yo-Chi.

Mr Wilkins stated a smoke ban would elevate the strip’s attractiveness even additional.

“We’ve got the beach, the cinema, it’s very much a place we want to encourage people to come and visit,” he stated.

“This proposal would really help create a welcoming environment to come and visit and support our local traders.”

Staffers will now put together a report and interview companies on the thoroughfare to gauge their place, together with the pubs that serve the strip.

“I think it will likely be supported because it’s about encouraging people to come and visit,” Mr Wilkins stated.

Staff will even examine whether or not the council has the legal authority to implement the proposed ban.

Cancer Council SA senior supervisor for prevention Christine Morris praised the concept.

Semaphore Rd Poll

“It’s fantastic to hear that local councils are taking a proactive approach to keeping South Australians safe from the harmful effects of smoking, by making more public spaces smoke-free,” she informed NewsWire.

“South Australia is leading the nation in providing smoke-free spaces since new laws were introduced last year and we welcome continued action to protect community members from exposure to second-hand smoking, especially vulnerable people and children.”

Several councils have voted lately to undertake sweeping smoking bans in a bid to improve health and native amenity.

In 2019, North Sydney Council voted to make its complete CBD district a smoke-free space, although the coverage doesn’t embrace non-public property and relates solely to public area owned and operated by the council.

Community session, taken earlier than the vote, discovered 80 per cent of respondents backed the ban, whereas almost 20 per cent opposed the proposal.

The City of Melbourne, in the meantime, has designated 14 smoke-free areas throughout its densely-packed council space, progressively rolling out new zones since 2013.

They now embrace the Royal Botanic Gardens, Queen Victoria Market and Princess Park working monitor.

Specific streets and lanes within the CBD are additionally smoke-free, together with McKillop St between Bourke St and Collins St, and Goldsbrough Lane between bourke and Little Bourke St.

In 2021, Glen Eira City Council, which takes in components of Melbourne’s east, handed a native law banning smoking throughout 14 zones.

“The objectives of the local law are to promote a physical and social environment free from hazards to health, in which the residents of and visitors to the municipality can enjoy a quality of life that meets the general expectations of the community,” the laws states.

Semaphore already has some smoke-free areas.

In 2021, Mr Wilkins organised a ban on smoking exterior libraries, group centres and council chambers.

“It just makes it such a more welcoming and inviting environment,” he stated.

The City of Port Adelaide Enfield council areas covers a huge portion of Adelaide’s north, stretching from Klemzig within the east to Semaphore within the west and the Osborne naval shipyard within the north.