Main Street

Nairne Main Street Upgrade

The Main Street will be upgraded in stages with stages 2.4A and 2.3 currently underway.

9 April 2025

Site demolition / clearance is now complete.

SPACE Landscaping Construction, Council’s main works contractor, has been continuing with preparation for the new retaining walls, pedestrian ramp, kerbing, landscaping, stormwater and outdoor dining across the site frontage.

All service utilities have been on-site at various times over the past 3-4 weeks with Telstra, NBN, SA Water and SA Power Networks all lowering their respective services with these works now approaching completion.

Concreting is underway for the retaining walls footings around the Church, a practice which will continue for all other retaining walls across the site over the next few weeks.

In addition, installation of the new septic tank and wastewater connection to service the Soldiers Memorial Hall will also commence later this week.

As you can appreciate, the construction site is busy and fairly extensive at present from the Millers Arms across to the Memorial Hall.

Please observe the traffic and pedestrian management measures in-place and continue to be vigilant throughout the construction period.

Please also note that due to the complexity of ongoing works, the Memorial Hall Car Park will be closed to all vehicles on Friday 25 April 2025 for the Anzac Day event.

Apologies for the inconvenience this may cause but community safety remains of the utmost importance and the site cannot be opened up in its current form for public use.

March 2025

Construction works have been progressing well over the past few weeks.

SPACE Landscaping Construction, Council’s main works contractor, has been continuing with site demolition outside Chingari and the Soldiers Memorial Hall, as well as excavation for the various retaining walls and pedestrian ramp.

Both Telstra and NBN have been on-site lowering their respective services - apologies to those who were affected by the short NBN outage last week.

Further service diversions including SAPN and SA Water will continue over the next couple of weeks as well as the retaining wall foundations.

November 2022

Wet weather continues to delay progress but we are finally into demolition and reduce level dig outside the Millers Arms, the final sub-stage of works.

Current activities:

box out
paving
concreting
kerbing
irrigation

17 October - Construction continuing despite ongoing delays due to wet weather:

block paving from Farquharson - Junction St
paving box-out outside Nairne Auto Care
concrete kerbing
exposed aggregate retaining wall
pram ramps
irrigation conduits
landscaping preparation

Works well underway including:

service locations
survey set-out
demolition
site clearance
box-out for block paving
saw cutting asphalt for kerbing
preparation for concreting

Stage 2.4A is scheduled to commence from 1 August 2021.

Streetscape Upgrade works will be undertaken along the northern side of Old Princes Highway from the intersection with Farquharson Street to Nairne Complete Auto Care including new footpaths, paving, landscaping, irrigation plus kerb buildouts, a pedestrian crossing and additional parking at the intersection of Old Princes Highway/Junction Street/Leith Street.

Works are scheduled to take around 6 weeks until the end of September.

Traffic management will be in place so please look out for changed traffic conditions throughout the works.

Stage 2.3 scope includes vegetation clearance, a new concrete sleeper retaining wall, bulk earthworks and a new concrete footpath to extend the recently completed concrete footpath (Stage 2.1) along OPH from Lower Nixon Street towards the railway line.

Action is currently underway with: