Adelaide City Council wants tall trees to block Adelaide Oval Artist's impression of the Adelaide Oval redevelopment by developer Baulderstone. TALL trees should be planted through the Creswell and Pennington Gardens to stop the revamped Adelaide Oval dominating the landscape, the City Council says. Councillors have voted to ask the State Government to plant "very large, mature trees" to "soften the visual impact" of the oval, as part of works to remediate the gardens following the upgrade of the ground into a 50,000 seat stadium. Cr Susan Clearihan, who pushed for the move, said trees with "much larger canopies at a greater height" were needed because the new Adelaide Oval would be "much larger than anyone imagined." "The increase in the size of the stadium has dwarfed two of Adelaide's iconic buildings, the St Peter's Cathedral and the Adelaide Festival Centre," she told the City Messenger. Adelaide Oval always had the reputation of being a cricket ground in a parkland setting. Because of the size of it, it looks like an infill building that reduces the special quality of Adelaide, the parklands. Cr Clearihan said bigger trees, possibly gums or oaks, were needed between War Memorial Drive and the cathedral, but she could not say how many would be needed. Property Council SA executive director Nathan Paine said views of the oval should be prized, not obscured. "One of the great things about Melbourne is the views of the MCG from the city, or if you are in Docklands, the views of Etihad (Stadium)," he said. You could name hundreds of stadiums around the world that are seen for their beauty rather than as a blot on the visual landscape. Councillors last week approved the removal of seven trees from the gardens and the relocation of two palm trees, allow construction of a plaza on the oval's eastern side and the entry to an underground carpark. The government has so far committed to planting 20 trees along Memorial Drive and around the new plaza, as well as restoring turf and footpaths, reinstating fountains and statues and improving drainage and irrigation. A spokeswoman for the Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure said the council had agreed to a landscaping plan that both parties were working to implement.