Community consultation on the report ended on Friday and a government spokesman said a decision had not been made yet, despite the government purchasing the former Yooralla building in Flinders Street for a reported $40.3 million in 2021 as the site for a safe-injecting room.
“We will await the findings of Ken Lay’s report, which is expected in the middle of this year,” the spokesman said.
Former police chief commissioner Ken Lay is delivering a report into the proposed second supervised injecting room. Credit: Penny Stephens
Campaigning by residents was instrumental in delivering the North Richmond supervised injecting room and people like Daley, Chris Lamb and Jill Mellon-Roberts want to show their support for a similar facility in the CBD.
However, not all CBD residents support a supervised injecting room in the city centre.
Residents 3000 president Rafael Camillo said he could not speak for the group as a whole but as an individual, he thought the government should be focused on rehabilitation facilities for drug users rather than another supervised injecting room.
“For me it is like a Band-Aid solution to the problem,” he said. “I would prefer to put money and time to rehabilitation beds and try to help those people who have put up their hands and are asking for help.”
Lamb has lived in the CBD for 13 years and said “the sooner the better” for a supervised injecting room.
“I have consistently criticised those who love the idea of an injecting room but not…