W Class Trams #saveouricons
Together with Adam Dunning and community groups on Facebook, the Trust is alarmed that fully functional W Class trams are being sold off or giv…
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Fisherman’s Bend: former Rootes car factory, and…tank research depot
The former Rootes car factory is set to be demolished. As the Age reported in June, the site will be redeveloped for townhouses. There is currently…
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Bird’s eye view
Video from unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly referred to as drones) is allowing armchair travellers to visit heritage gardens around Victoria. (…
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Mayday Hills permit upheld
The Heritage Council of Victoria have handed down their decision regarding the Mayday Hills permit appeal hearing held in April 2015.
The decisi…
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Heritage Act Review
The Heritage Act has remained fundamentally unchanged for nearly 20 years. Whilst there are some simple reforms of the Act that have been awaiting …
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Heritage Law in Victoria 101
This morning, Planning Minister Richard Wynne announced the long-anticipated review of the Victorian Heritage Act 1995: http://www.dtpli.vic.gov.au…
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Frogmore: soon to be no more
Last night, six of the City of Glen Eira’s nine councillors were present to vote on a motion to abandon Planning Scheme Amendment C137, which propo…
MORETrees in the urban battleground
Dr Greg Moore on trees in the urban battleground, at the recent forum held by the Australian Garden History Society titled ‘Trees – Natural and Cul…
MORE#savethepalace VCAT matter encore
As reported in the Age, the VCAT hearing which originally went for three days in March will now have to be reconstituted because of the oversight b…
MOREMayday Hills subdivision saga
The heritage permit process is important for the future of Mayday Hills because the permit conditions are set only once for a subdivision, and ther…
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