Planning
Advancing heritage in the CBD
The recent approval of the Hoddle Grid Heritage Review by the City of Melbourne is major step forward for heritage protection in our city.
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Housing for all makes “good business sense”
Welcome to the second of our series which will attempt to explore the role that housing can and should play within Australian society and why it is important to our economy that we house all Australians, rich or poor.
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Celebrating new heritage controls
There was some great news for heritage this month, with Amendment C258 finally approved by the Minister of Planning Richard Wynne.
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Save Campbell Arcade
With tunneling continuing unabated on the Metro Tunnel, Melbourne Heritage Action (MHA) is concerned that plans for demolition in one of the city’s most significant arcades are still not publicly available, or seemingly open to any scrutiny or objection.
Read MoreReflecting on heritage
The current shutdown has given many of us pause to reconsider our impact on the world and the way we structure our lives and build our cities, and heritage should take a place in that discussion.
Read MoreTaking the “D” out of demolition
The City of Melbourne last month voted to adopt two very important guidelines for heritage.
Read MoreHeritage laying idle
Vice President, Melbourne Heritage Action
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Protecting our sacred laneways
As reported earlier in this issue of CBD news, after a two-year long process, Minister for Planning Richard Wynne signed off this month on one of the City of Melbourne’s most ambitious heritage protection studies in decades.
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Corkman will not be rebuilt
The latest news is that Raman Shaqiri and Stefce Kutlesovski, the developers who illegally demolished the 1856 Corkman Irish pub in Carlton, are removing the debris from the site (which contained asbestos), and are disposing it.
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Testing our resolve
A development currently advertised for 7 Hosier Lane, which seeks to plonk serviced apartments on top of a building with a heritage facade in one of our key laneways, should be seen not only as a heritage issue, but as a litmus test for the kind of city we all want to live in.
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