Town of Walkerville

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Town of Walkerville
South Australia
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Population8,023 (LGA 2021) [1]
 • Density2,247,34/km2 (582,060/sq mi)
Established1944
Area3.57 km2 (1.4 sq mi)
Mayor Melissa Jones
Council seat Gilberton
Region Eastern Adelaide [2]
State electorate(s) Adelaide, Torrens
Federal division(s) Adelaide, Sturt
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Website Town of Walkerville
LGAs around Town of Walkerville:
City of Prospect City of Port Adelaide Enfield City of Port Adelaide Enfield
City of Prospect Town of Walkerville City of Norwood Payneham St Peters
City of Adelaide City of Adelaide City of Norwood Payneham St Peters

The Corporation of the Town of Walkerville (or Town of Walkerville) is a small local government area in the central suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

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The residents of the Town of Walkerville are represented by a mayor and eight councillors. The area is home to the highest concentration of top earners in South Australia, [3] and was named "South Australia's richest postcode" in 2016. [4]

History

The District Council of Walkerville was first proclaimed on 5 July 1855, severing the area from the District Council of Yatala after a petition by local residents proclaimed a desire to break away from the larger District Council of Yatala (proclaimed in 1853). [5] [6] Initially, only the suburbs of Walkerville and Gilberton seceded from Yatala but within a few months, Medindie and North Walkerville (now part of Walkerville proper, east of Fuller Street) were annexed by Walkerville. The district boundaries remained unchanged until 1970 when Vale Park was annexed from the City of Enfield.

Early council meetings were held in a room at the local pub, the Sussex Arms. In 1893 the council seat moved across Stephen Terrace to the present location by the Walkerville Town Hall on Walkerville Terrace, Gilberton.

It was granted corporate town status on 1 October 1944, becoming the Town of Walkerville. [7]

Suburbs

Council

The council, and the councillors' registered interests, as of December 2022 are: [8]

WardParty [9] Councillor
Mayor Liberal Melissa Jones
Deputy Mayor Independent Liz Trotter
Area Councillors Independent Aman Kaur
Independent Anthony Vanstone
Independent James Nenke
Independent James Williams
Independent Jay Allanson
Independent John Zeppel
Liberal Steven Rypp

Mayors (formerly chairmen) of Walkerville

List of mayors of Walkerville (since 1939)
Lists the ward that the mayor served before and after their tenure and all elections they contested. Data taken from South Australian Government Gazettes, LGA reports and Mayoral biographical articles. [21] [22] [23]

Name
(Birth–Death)		PortraitTenureCouncil ConstituencyElectionsMayoral
Elections
John Creswell
(1891-1975)		7 August
1939		8 July
1944		 Walkerville
1934-1961		1934, 1936,
1938, 1940,
1942, 1944,
1943, 1944
1946, 1947,
1951, 1953,
1955, 1957,
1959		1939, 1940,
1941, 1942
Frank Wilson
(1884-1969)		 Mayor Frank Davies.jpg 24 July
1944		7 July
1946		 North Walkerville
1936-1956		1942, 1944,
1946, 1948,
1950, 1952,
1954		1955
George Shaw
(1883-1954)		 George Dorricutt Shaw.jpg 8 July
1946		3 July
1948		 Walkerville
1933-1945		1933, 1935,
1937, 1939,
1941, 1942,
1943, 1944
1946, 1947		1946
Frederick Rungie
(1885-1966)		3 July
1948		7 July
1951		 Medindie
1941-1948		1941, 1943,
1945, 1946,
1947, 1948,
1949		1948
Howard Dayman
(1893-1957)		7 July
1951		2 July
1955†		 Walkerville
1945-1957†		1945, 1946,
1948, 1950,
1951, 1953,
1955, 1956		1951, 1953
Frank Wilson
(1884-1969)		 Mayor Frank Davies.jpg 2 July
1955		7 July
1956		 North Walkerville
1936-1956		1942, 1944,
1946, 1948,
1950, 1952,
1954		1955
Cecil Searle
(1890-1967)		 Cecil Searle.jpg 7 July
1956		1 July
1961		 North Walkerville
1953-1956		1953, 1956,
1959		1956, 1959
The Honourable
Lancelot Milne
(1915-1995)		 Lance Milne.jpg 1 July
1961		4 July
1964		 Medindie
1961-1965		1961, 19631961, 1963
Ernest Phillipson
(1911-2001)		 Ernest Phillipson.jpg 4 July
1964		2 July
1966		 Medindie
1962-1964;
1966-1974		1962, 1964,
1966, 1968,
1970, 1972		1964
Leonard Ewens
(1910-1981)		2 July
1966		5 July
1969		 Medindie
1958-1962;
1964-1966
Gilbert
1969-1970		1958, 1960,
1964, 1966,
1968, 1969		1966, 1968
Edwin Scales
(1903-1987)		 Edwin Scales.jpg 5 July
1969		2 July
1977		 Gilbert
1958-1969
Medindie
1977-1979		1958, 1960,
1962, 1964,
1966, 1968,
1970, 1971,
1972, 1973,
1974, 1975,
1976, 1977		1969, 1970,
1971, 1972,
1973, 1974,
1975, 1976
Kenneth Price
(1921-2008)		2 July
1977		2 October
1982		 Medindie
1975-1977;
1982-1990		1975, 1977,
1979, 1982,
1985, 1987,
1989		1977, 1979
George Sparnon
(1923-2000)		2 October
1982		2 May
1987		 Walkerville
1965-1982		1965, 1966,
1968, 1970,
1971, 1972,
1973, 1974,
1975, 1976,
1977, 1979,
1982, 1985		1982, 1985
Margot Vowles
(born c.1949)		2 May
1987		4 May
1991		 Gilbert
1978-1987;
1991-2000		1978, 1979,
1982, 1985,
1987, 1989,
1991, 1993,
1995, 1997		1987, 1989
Ian McBryde
(1928-2005)		4 May
1991		6 May
1995		 Medindie
1979-1981
Walkerville
1987-1991;
1995-1997		1979,
1987, 1989,
1991, 1993,
1995		1991, 1993
Rosemary Craddock
(born c.1950)		6 May
1995		6 May
2000		 Medindie
1989-1995		1989, 1991
1993, 1995,
1997		1995, 1997
John Rich 6 May
2000		10 November
2006		 Gilbert & Medindie
1995-2000		1995, 1997
2000, 2003		2000, 2003
David Whiting
(born 1950)		10 November
2006		18 November
2010		 Vale Park
1993-2018		1993, 1995
1997, 2000,
2003, 2006,
2010, 2014		2006
Heather Wright
(born 1944)		18 November
2010		7 April
2014		 Vale Park
2005-2014		1993, 1995
1997, 2000,
2003, 2006,
2010, 2014		2006
ACTING
Anthony Reade
(1942-2021)		7 April
2014		8 November
2014		 Vale Park
1997-2014		1997, 2000
2003, 2006,
2010		(Acting)
Raymond Grigg
(born 1941)		8 November
2014		19 November
2018		20142014
Elizabeth Fricker
(born 1962)		19 November
2018		12 November
2022		 Walkerville
2014-2022		2014, 20182018
Melissa Jones
(born 1977)		12 November
2022		present20222022

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  3. ↑ "How does your income compare to everyone else's?". ABC News. 21 May 2019. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  4. ↑ "Revealed: SA's new richest postcode". The Advertiser. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  5. ↑ "The Corporation of the Town of Walkerville". The Corporation of the Town of Walkerville. 17 November 2009. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
  6. ↑ Marsden, Susan (2012). "LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: A HISTORY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COUNCILS to 1936" (PDF). In April 1855, Walkerville ratepayers petitioned to allow a very large part of Yatala to be created as a separate District of Walkerville; the size of the division was opposed by other ratepayers, and on 5 July 1855 a much smaller DC of Walkerville was proclaimed, although it gained additional portions of Yatala District on 1 November 1855 and on 21 April 1859.
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