diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 20118a93b..4f6ed9edb 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 latest:
-* Add support for platform wide acls for schema registry in the topology description file. 
+* Add support for platform wide acls for schema registry in the topology description file.
+* Rebird the option to disable deletes when not required anymore. 
 
 v0.11:
 * Add support for storing the current generated acls within a state file. This is useful to delete
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/AccessControlManager.java b/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/AccessControlManager.java
index dbd5fba7e..8829737ac 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/AccessControlManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/AccessControlManager.java
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 package com.purbon.kafka.topology;
 
+import static com.purbon.kafka.topology.BuilderCLI.ALLOW_DELETE_OPTION;
+
 import com.purbon.kafka.topology.model.DynamicUser;
 import com.purbon.kafka.topology.model.Topology;
 import com.purbon.kafka.topology.model.User;
@@ -9,6 +11,7 @@
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
@@ -18,23 +21,42 @@
 public class AccessControlManager {
 
   private static final Logger LOGGER = LogManager.getLogger(AccessControlManager.class);
+  private final Boolean allowDelete;
 
   private AccessControlProvider controlProvider;
   private ClusterState clusterState;
+  private Map<String, String> cliParams;
 
   public AccessControlManager(AccessControlProvider controlProvider) {
-    this(controlProvider, new ClusterState());
+    this(controlProvider, new ClusterState(), new HashMap<>());
+  }
+
+  public AccessControlManager(
+      AccessControlProvider controlProvider, Map<String, String> cliParams) {
+    this(controlProvider, new ClusterState(), cliParams);
   }
 
   public AccessControlManager(AccessControlProvider controlProvider, ClusterState clusterState) {
+    this(controlProvider, clusterState, new HashMap<>());
+  }
+
+  public AccessControlManager(
+      AccessControlProvider controlProvider,
+      ClusterState clusterState,
+      Map<String, String> cliParams) {
     this.controlProvider = controlProvider;
     this.clusterState = clusterState;
+    this.cliParams = cliParams;
+
+    this.allowDelete = Boolean.valueOf(cliParams.getOrDefault(ALLOW_DELETE_OPTION, "true"));
   }
 
   public void clearAcls() {
     try {
       clusterState.load();
-      controlProvider.clearAcls(clusterState);
+      if (allowDelete) {
+        controlProvider.clearAcls(clusterState);
+      }
     } catch (Exception e) {
       LOGGER.error(e);
     } finally {
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/KafkaTopologyBuilder.java b/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/KafkaTopologyBuilder.java
index 2b4403cbf..5ef39f96e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/KafkaTopologyBuilder.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/KafkaTopologyBuilder.java
@@ -31,11 +31,12 @@ public class KafkaTopologyBuilder {
   private final Properties properties;
   private final TopologyBuilderAdminClient builderAdminClient;
   private final boolean quiteOut;
+  private final Map<String, String> cliParams;
 
   public KafkaTopologyBuilder(String topologyFile, Map<String, String> cliParams) {
     this.topologyFile = topologyFile;
     this.parser = new TopologySerdes();
-
+    this.cliParams = cliParams;
     this.properties = buildProperties(cliParams);
     this.builderAdminClient = buildTopologyAdminClient(cliParams);
     this.quiteOut = Boolean.valueOf(cliParams.getOrDefault(QUITE_OPTION, "false"));
@@ -46,9 +47,9 @@ public void run() throws IOException {
     Topology topology = parser.deserialise(new File(topologyFile));
 
     AccessControlProvider aclsProvider = buildAccessControlProvider();
-    AccessControlManager accessControlManager = new AccessControlManager(aclsProvider);
+    AccessControlManager accessControlManager = new AccessControlManager(aclsProvider, cliParams);
 
-    TopicManager topicManager = new TopicManager(builderAdminClient);
+    TopicManager topicManager = new TopicManager(builderAdminClient, cliParams);
 
     topicManager.sync(topology);
     accessControlManager.sync(topology);
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/TopicManager.java b/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/TopicManager.java
index 90f077012..b45a3c22b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/TopicManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/purbon/kafka/topology/TopicManager.java
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 package com.purbon.kafka.topology;
 
+import static com.purbon.kafka.topology.BuilderCLI.ALLOW_DELETE_OPTION;
+
 import com.purbon.kafka.topology.model.Project;
 import com.purbon.kafka.topology.model.Topic;
 import com.purbon.kafka.topology.model.Topology;
 import java.io.PrintStream;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
@@ -19,9 +23,17 @@ public class TopicManager {
   public static final String REPLICATION_FACTOR = "replication.factor";
 
   private final TopologyBuilderAdminClient adminClient;
+  private final Map<String, String> cliParams;
+  private final Boolean allowDelete;
 
   public TopicManager(TopologyBuilderAdminClient adminClient) {
+    this(adminClient, new HashMap<>());
+  }
+
+  public TopicManager(TopologyBuilderAdminClient adminClient, Map<String, String> cliParams) {
     this.adminClient = adminClient;
+    this.cliParams = cliParams;
+    this.allowDelete = Boolean.valueOf(cliParams.getOrDefault(ALLOW_DELETE_OPTION, "true"));
   }
 
   public void sync(Topology topology) {
@@ -44,17 +56,19 @@ public void sync(Topology topology) {
                           updatedListOfTopics.add(fullTopicName);
                         }));
 
-    // Handle topic delete: Topics in the initial list, but not present anymore after a
-    // full topic sync should be deleted
-    List<String> topicsToBeDeleted = new ArrayList<>();
-    listOfTopics.stream()
-        .forEach(
-            originalTopic -> {
-              if (!updatedListOfTopics.contains(originalTopic)) {
-                topicsToBeDeleted.add(originalTopic);
-              }
-            });
-    adminClient.deleteTopics(topicsToBeDeleted);
+    if (allowDelete) {
+      // Handle topic delete: Topics in the initial list, but not present anymore after a
+      // full topic sync should be deleted
+      List<String> topicsToBeDeleted = new ArrayList<>();
+      listOfTopics.stream()
+          .forEach(
+              originalTopic -> {
+                if (!updatedListOfTopics.contains(originalTopic)) {
+                  topicsToBeDeleted.add(originalTopic);
+                }
+              });
+      adminClient.deleteTopics(topicsToBeDeleted);
+    }
   }
 
   public void syncTopic(Topic topic, String fullTopicName, Set<String> listOfTopics) {