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Stop Drug & Alcohol Rehab House in Glenelg's Heart

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Glenelg community residents need your help to pay legal costs to stop the State Government issuing a contract for a Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facility in Maturin Road, Glenelg.

This GoFundMe is to raise funds to ensure the Goverment acts lawfully and rehabilitees are provided with a facility that follows due process and helps them recover.

If there are any excess funds, they will be donated to the 'Operation Flinders' Charity.

A Residential Rehabilitation Facility for Drug and Alcohol Addiction, wrongly placed in the Heart of Glenelg.

In 2022, the South Australian Government issued a tender for a Residential Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Facility.

In violation of tender conditions the Goverment awarded the contract to Uniting Communities to establish the facility in Maturin rd. Glenelg.

1. The Tender Documents specified that the facility had to be located in one of 22 suburbs SA Health identified as needing residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation.
  • Not only was Glenelg not one of the complying suburbs, it is also approx. 20km from the specified areas of need: Outer Northern suburbs, North-Western suburbs, Outer Southern suburbs.
2. The documents specified the facility should not be near retail alcohol outlets.
  • Glenelg has more pubs, bars, and licensed restaurants than any other Adelaide suburb and the proposed site in Maturin rd. is less than a 4 min walk from licensed alcohol outlets.
3. The documents specified that the facility should provide accommodation to rehabilitees who could have mental health issues including danger to themselves or others.
  • The proposed facility contains no safeguards to guarantee the safety of rehabilitees, staff, or members of the public.
  • The facility has no backyard and the only outdoor area rehabilitees will have access to is a small ‘garden’ next to the Maturin rd. footpath used by locals, Jetty rd. shoppers, local shop employees, and children (see photo).
  • Maturin rd. is used by SPW and St Mary's primary school pupils going to and from school and by Glenelg Primary school students walking to the Glenelg library and Glenelg beach.
  • We understand that no Risk Assessment of the facility was undertaken.
4. When Holdfast Bay Council voiced concerns about the proposed facility, the State Government removed the Council’s right to examine it, and the community’s right to comment, by declaring the 12-bed facility ‘essential infrastructure’ and ‘a Crown Project of State Significance’.
5. Following legal advice, on Oct 17th, 2023, local residents filed an application to the Supreme Court challenging the State Government’s decision.
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