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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now.

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Speaker 2: Two days in a row, the Lord Mayor of Darwen

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Speaker 2: convat Scarlet's good morning.

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Speaker 3: Conn good morning cake.

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Speaker 2: Con walkway is on the way. That's the headline in

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Speaker 2: the paper. Plans for an upgraded Esplanade footpath were approved

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Speaker 2: by the Darwin Council last night and well it's looking

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Speaker 2: as though the plans for the RSL are definitely well

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Speaker 2: done and dusted.

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Speaker 3: Well. As I told you yesterday, the advice from me

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Speaker 3: to the RSL was found a new site because you're

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Speaker 3: not going to go to the Esplanade yes yesterday council

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Speaker 3: voted to grin the car park area next to the Cenotaph.

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Speaker 3: But we make provisions for the army to put their

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Speaker 3: artillery and all heavy equipment for the bombing of Darwin,

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Speaker 3: and also for people disabilities when they come for the

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Speaker 3: celebration to be able to stay there, to come there

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Speaker 3: and disembark, so it's will be easier for them. But

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Speaker 3: the reality is that place will be converted to a

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Speaker 3: green space, a beautiful place that people and families can

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Speaker 3: use for recruit and look.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be lovely.

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Speaker 2: It'll certainly look a lot nicer but kind of message

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Speaker 2: that's come through on the text ligne already.

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Speaker 1: Hey Katie, can you ask the Lord mayor how are they.

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Speaker 2: Going to deal with the loss of revenue from the

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Speaker 2: car parks on the Esperanade? Also, where are those people

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Speaker 2: going to park now?

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Speaker 3: Well, there's not going to be a lot of revenue

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Speaker 3: because people actually the parking there. Now they'll be simply

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Speaker 3: parking to other car parks around the area, especially the

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Speaker 3: West Lane. The people we offer the opportunities and the

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Speaker 3: options to relocate to other car parks and they'll still

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Speaker 3: been paying in this new car parks, so there's not

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Speaker 3: going to be a loss of revenue.

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Speaker 2: How many car parks are actually in that car park?

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Speaker 3: They are about seventy car parks and at this stage

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Speaker 3: we've got enormous capacity on our other car park facilities

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Speaker 3: for more than seventy. I think our car parks about

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Speaker 3: sixty to sixty five percent full and the rest is

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Speaker 3: still empty.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So but really the option for people is the

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Speaker 2: Chinatown car Park is that right.

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Speaker 3: Chinatown and West Lane, and if they want, they can

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Speaker 3: go to the Grand car Park next to the Parliament House.

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Speaker 3: There's plenty of car pack in the area.

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Speaker 1: Can everyone just park it there. What people say, can

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Speaker 1: anyone party.

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Speaker 3: At the ground car pack? Of course it is. It's

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Speaker 3: open to the public.

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Speaker 1: Oh there go.

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Speaker 2: Actually for some reason thought that it was it was

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Speaker 2: just for staff at Parliament House.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, there's actually about one hundred and

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Speaker 3: forty sids there for the public. And if there's no

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Speaker 3: any jury sitting, there's even more car pack facilities in

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Speaker 3: the air Grand Car Park.

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Speaker 2: Now corn with the graining of this space, when's it

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Speaker 2: going to get on the y Well, we have to go.

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Speaker 3: Through of course, keep people notice that they have to

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Speaker 3: move out. We have to resone the area and we

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Speaker 3: have to actually make some plans what we want to

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Speaker 3: look like, and then it will come out. Look, it's

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Speaker 3: not going to happen tomorrow. It might take a few months,

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Speaker 3: but it will definitely happen because this is the council's decision.

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Speaker 2: Was this something I mean, was this just done to

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Speaker 2: stop the RSL in their tracks?

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Speaker 3: No, not at all, because we've just discussed with you

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Speaker 3: before we had information for the Ladak. Yeah, people, there

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Speaker 3: are some sorts of significance. That's another opportunity to protect

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Speaker 3: those sides and also to be able to provide through

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Speaker 3: a podcast the information about the bombing of Darwin, the

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Speaker 3: significance of the size, and that can be done now

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Speaker 3: with the technology we've got. So it's not just going

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Speaker 3: to be a car park. It's going to be a

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Speaker 3: place where we're protecting significant sites. It's a place that

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Speaker 3: will be connected with the cenotaph and the bombing of Darwin,

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Speaker 3: a place we can go and sit down and have

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Speaker 3: a meal or a glass of wine, and at the

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Speaker 3: same time, with the modern technology and your mobile phone,

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Speaker 3: will be able to hear about the bombing of Darwin

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Speaker 3: and other significant issues in this area.

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Speaker 1: Are you allowed to have a drink down there?

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Speaker 3: Well, drinking if you are allowed to drink in certain areas,

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Speaker 3: because this one is a car park, is not subject

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Speaker 3: to the rules of the explanat. So this is something

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Speaker 3: to be considered too.

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Speaker 2: All right, So we might even be able to that

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Speaker 2: area might actually be able to be one where we're

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Speaker 2: allowed to enjoy a drink.

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Speaker 3: Don't get your bottling glasses out yet, Kate till extually China.

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Speaker 2: Right now, I'm not going to pull up in the

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Speaker 2: car par I can have a drink, but once it's green,

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Speaker 2: you know, once it's green. You never know con like,

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Speaker 2: are we expecting this screening work to get underway in

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Speaker 2: the next financial year or a couple of years down

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Speaker 2: the track.

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Speaker 1: How soon could it happen?

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Speaker 3: It would be the next financial year because our budget

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Speaker 3: for this year seventy million dollar capital works is fully allocated,

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Speaker 3: so there's no way we can find this money in

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Speaker 3: this financial year. And don't forget it's only about six

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Speaker 3: or seven months left from this financial year, but definitely

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Speaker 3: six months time is a good time to keep people

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Speaker 3: notice so they can find opportunities to park somewhere else,

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Speaker 3: and also for us to do the plants. What are

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Speaker 3: we're going to do there and prepare for the transition.

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Speaker 2: Now in terms of the RSL, obviously you've said you

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Speaker 2: do not want that. You know, you do not want

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Speaker 2: the facility to get underway there, which is why it's

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Speaker 2: now being greened. What about down the other end of

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Speaker 2: the esplanade or is the esplanade totally off limits now

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Speaker 2: for the RSL, the what.

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Speaker 3: You call the astronaut I call the bisidential park because

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Speaker 3: this is exactly what it is. The Barsidennial Park cannot

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Speaker 3: be touched. We are not going to dig out any

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Speaker 3: of the grass area or the trees to put anything there.

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Speaker 3: What we have there now is actually the playground. We've

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Speaker 3: got a toilet we put in after a lot of

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Speaker 3: the mothers asked for it, and people are welcome to

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Speaker 3: actually utilize all the car parking areas for pop up shops.

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Speaker 3: We've got already somebody with a van that goes there

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Speaker 3: regularly parks there and provides ice cream, called drinks and

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Speaker 3: coffee to the people they go to the parks to

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Speaker 3: the playground. But Kate, there are so many hotels on

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Speaker 3: the other side of the road of the esplanat, and

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Speaker 3: I call upon these people, and I was very pleased

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Speaker 3: with one of these hotel managers yesterday told me that

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Speaker 3: he's thinking actually doing something after he heard me on

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Speaker 3: the radio asking for the hotels to come to the party.

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Speaker 3: So I'm looking forward for the next few months to

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Speaker 3: see these hotels to actually do something. Put other cafes

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Speaker 3: restaurants opposite the estlant so we can enjoy beautiful meal

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Speaker 3: with a beautiful view.

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Speaker 2: I've got a message here from mel from on the

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Speaker 2: menu catering. She says, Hi, Katie and team with the

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Speaker 2: green space, why why not do an edible garden that

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Speaker 2: will help the homeless and the lower income earners.

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Speaker 3: They're already gardens. Seeing the other places around Darwin, from

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Speaker 3: the water gardens to the lakeside drive that actually they

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Speaker 3: operating now. The Astrolander is a place for everybody to

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Speaker 3: enjoy it. We want to live it the way it is.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful trees, beautiful grass area for people to sit there

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Speaker 3: and enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Combat scarlets, the Lord Mayor of darwhen we are going

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Speaker 2: to have to leave it there. Good to catch up

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Speaker 2: with you. Thank you for chatting with us again this morning.

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Speaker 3: And you welcome Kate any time. But don't get your

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Speaker 3: bottles and glasses out yet.

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Speaker 2: Oh mate, you made it sound like I could go

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Speaker 2: and get my fish and chips and take a bottle of.

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Speaker 1: Wine down there.

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Speaker 3: You can take your fish and chips.

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Speaker 2: Not problems at all, all right, Well, we'll wait and

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Speaker 2: say whether that changes in the future.

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Speaker 1: On vet scarlets. Good to speak with you. Thank you,