The Adelaide Football Club has released new images of its proposed sports and community hub in North Adelaide.

The images feature an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a children’s play area and unfenced ovals, which would transform the ageing Adelaide Aquatic Centre into an integrated sports, aquatic and community centre that would also become the new home for the Crows. 

The City of Adelaide is currently conducting a public consultation on the draft proposal.

Speaking on Adelaide radio on Saturday, Crows chief executive Andrew Fagan confirmed the aquatic centre would remain dedicated to public use and the design could reduce the existing building footprint, which sat with the Council.

"Through a combined design, we think we can achieve that - to actually add amenities, not take it away,” Fagan told KG and Cornesy. 

"We've proposed whether it's recreational lap swimming, kids play, water play, gymnasium, hydrotherapy, we think that there's a way you can get all of that in.

"Ultimately the Council is running a needs analysis and the Council will determine exactly what goes in, and exactly the size and scale of that." 

Fagan said he understands how important the largest inner-urban park system in Australia is to the city of Adelaide and stated the Club ‘won’t take a footprint of Park Lands away’.

“I know how special the Park Lands are,” Fagan said.

“When you actually go through this exercise and you say if we can deliver the community with facilities that are new, that are for the next 50 years…

“If we can take that old building and turn it into a new building that is befitting of the Park Lands environment, we can do it all on the same footprint, we can activate the Park Lands for more people to use and to experience.

“We can invest money into that project for the community and we can decrease the impact that is currently being felt by the council.

“It helps to boost trade for the traders on O’Connell Street, I’m sort of saying, why wouldn’t that go ahead?” 

Formal plans for the site would be released after Adelaide City Council completes public consultation, with the online feedback form set to close on Wednesday 19 February.

“I think, if viewed on merit, it should be a really good chance but equally understand that it’s ultimately not our decision to make,” Fagan said. 

“We’ll just put forward a really strong case and look forward to hearing the feedback.”