‘Where will the goths go?’: the fight to save Adelaide’s beloved ‘Cranker’ pub from high-rise plans

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Thousands hit the streets on Sunday to protest plans to turn the 171-year-old Crown and Anchor, a pub and live music venue, into 19 storeys of student accommodation

On Sunday, thousands marched in Adelaide to protest the proposed developement of the Crown and Anchor, a pub and live music venue known widely as the Cranker.On Sunday, thousands marched in Adelaide to protest the proposed developement of the Crown and Anchor, a pub and live music venue known widely as the Cranker.

“You know, people can rock up after work in a suit and tie and they’re going to be treated the same way as someone with a mohawk and safety pins through their ears,” he says. “They’re treated with dignity and respect – that’s how society should be.”A fortnight earlier, a laminated A4 notice was dropped off at the hotel’s front bar.

Before taking on the pub in 2016, Skipper spent years running a series of pop-up venues in an adjacent building that was always earmarked for demolition. But this latest proposal – which would see his longtime landlord, local property developer Karidis Corporation, sell the entire block to Wee Hur in a multimillion-dollar deal – came “out of the blue”, he says.

They face an uphill battle. In a radio interview, the Labor state planning minister, Nick Champion, insisted the development would be impartially judged by Scap, an independent body.But, he conceded, the proposed redevelopment would be Lomax-Smith, who was also lord mayor from 1997–2000 and a Labor cabinet minister from 2002–2010, says local heritage listings like the Crown and Anchor’s were designed to protect the integrity of the important buildings while granting owners flexibility to make interior updates. Instead, subsequent changes to height restrictions have led to a rash of “facadism”.“If you can build 23 storeys on the site of a pub, the value of the pub is immaterial – it has no value,” she says.

 

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