Trust acts to save Victoria’s first curtain-wall building
The Trust is currently lobbying Councillors for the City of Yarra in the lead-up to a Special Meeting of Council tonight to consider a Development …
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Horseshoe Bend Tunnel, Walhalla
The Friends of Horseshoe Bend near Walhalla, together with Baw Baw Shire Council, are objecting to a proposal to excavate and blast a new channel i…
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You Yangs sand mine
On the western slopes of the You Yangs, a new sand mine is proposed, threatening the rural idyll of Wooloomanata station on Hovells Creek and the s…
MORECity of Port Phillip votes YES for heritage at Fishermans Bend
Last night City of Port Phillip Councillors voted in favour of a recommendation by Council officers to initiate heritage protection for a number of…
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Solar panels: yay or nay?
Two recent but unrelated articles about solar panels on heritage buildings in inner Melbourne highlight the vexed and confusing approach of heritag…
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Tarran Valley rezoning
This subdivision on the southern approach to Maldon is once again under consideration, having been first mooted in 2006. (more…)
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Planning Panel considers Heritage Overlay for “Ngara”
Last week the Trust was represented at two day hearing by Planning Panels Victoria appointed to consider Boroondara Planning Amendment C208. While …
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Punt Road Project
We recently stumbled across a cool website which is documenting people’s stories about Punt Road.
It’s a wonderful example of how to draw out soci…
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MOREJackson’s Creek 1925-2015
1925 & 2015 views from the railway line, west towards the Rupertswood farm outbuildings with Sunbury in the distance.
Not much has changed in the …