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TagCity 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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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…
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Bourke Hill/Parliamentary Precinct heritage & height controls
In 2014 the former Minister for Planning Matthew Guy proposed mandatory height controls for some of the Bourke Hill/Parliamentary precinct and his …
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What the Palace Theatre and Whitlam house sagas tell us about the need for heritage reform
What lessons should be learned from the recent dramas with Gough Whitlam’s birthplace and the Palace Theatre?
We recently asked the major politi…
MORETrust Advocate Explainer – The Palace Under Threat
Following reports yesterday afternoon by Save the Palace, it emerged that part of the interior of the Palace Theatre was being stripped by a demoli…
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It’s Time
24 hours is a long time in politics, but the last 72 hours of decisions, statements, media releases, backflips and tweets on the fate of the birthp…
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Urban Heritage Conference October 2014: the Challenges of Advocating for Marvellous Melbourne’s CBD Modernism
Given the heritage study work that the City of Melbourne has undertaken in the last three years preparing heritage controls for hundreds more build…
MOREHeritage overlay goes wonky in Wodonga – Wodonga Heritage Amendment C97
Councillors at the Rural City of Wodonga have gone against the advice of the independent planning panel appointed to review the recent heritage ame…
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New Residential Zones and relationship to heritage controls in Victoria
In July 2013 amendments to residential zones were introduced into the Victoria Planning Provisions (VPP). This included:
• the introduction of thr…
Melboune Planning Scheme Heritage Amendment C198 “City North”
This is the latest heritage amendment to be put forward by the City of Melbourne to plug some gaps in its planning scheme. It follows C186 (“the CB…
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