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What is the point of having a heritage overlay if existing homes are permitted to be knocked down?
Our streets are losing all their charm and character and even with heritage overlays it continues to happen.
The people have different choices and we need to respect that not just respecting neighbours who just love their heritage characteristics and everyone else has to follow this choice (very selfish).
People working hard for many years to pay off their mortgage loan and need to have the ultimate rights to make their choices to do whatever they want to do with their house. Not selfish neighbours to tell them what to do with their house. Thanks
One could say that a homeowner, who on average cycles out every decade, is selfish for destroying a home with cultural and aesthetic significance, and which is deeply valued by the community, just so they can have the temporary satisfaction of owning a 'new' home, which quickly fades away as their poor construction materials weather, fail and become outdated at a rate 100x the original heritage home.
If you have some weird hatred for heritage homes, don't live in a heritage overlay. There are many homes in the suburb which aren't affected by one, so go for your life.
36 Tower Hill Rd. has been assessed as 'non-contributory' to the overall heritage character of the street and therefore is quite permitted to demolish it and re-build
The same rule applies to other 'non-contributory' properties in other streets within the Mont Iris Estate and Environs Precinct which formed part of Council Heritage Gap Study.
A ‘Non-contributory’ grading was attributed to buildings that have no association with the significance of the heritage place, or places that would otherwise be considered ‘Contributory’ but have been substantially altered to the point that their origins and relationship to the precinct’s significance are no longer legible.
A permit still has to be granted for building and works, including demolition, and would be assessed by Council its affect on the significance of these precincts.
The people have different choices and we need to respect that not just respecting neighbours who just love their heritage characteristics and everyone else has to follow this choice (very selfish).
People working hard for many years to pay off their mortgage loan and need to have the ultimate rights to make their choices to do whatever they want to do with their house. Not selfish neighbours to tell them what to do with their house. Thanks
The truth of the matter is, if it has a "non contributory" grading then the owner can choose to do what he/she wants with a new build. Besides driving past this old house I cant see what heritage value it adds , and why someone would want a house like that preserved. I wish the owner good luck and support this permit application
