Council protects heritage properties

Brisbane City Council intends to add another 61 historic properties across the city to its Heritage Register to ensure they are safeguarded for the future.

Neighbourhood Planning and Development Assessment Chair Amanda Cooper said investigations had revealed a raft of homes, schools, shops, laneways, and even a retaining wall that provided an important insight into Brisbane’s past and needed to be protected.

Among the proposed additions is the historic home ‘Hurlton’ at Chelmer. Built in 1889, the home was originally owned by prominent Sherwood resident John Sutton and in 1920 became a home for disabled children until the 1990s.

Also making the proposed list were five early 1900s homes within the Enderley Rd Heritage Precinct at Ascot and Clayfield (the precinct, which includes 26 properties, will itself also be listed).

The Coorparoo Bowls Club, Enoggera Scout Hall, Anglican Church Grammar School at East Brisbane and the site of ‘Archerfield’ homestead at Forest Lake - which includes a grand avenue of mango trees that once lined the home’s front drive - are also proposed heritage register additions.

Fortitude Valley had the most historically significant properties with 21 potential additions to the register.

Cr Cooper said the list of proposed register additions would go before the full council this week for approval.

“Following that, we will write to the owners of those properties to notify them of the intention to include them on the register and ask for their feedback,” she said.

“Early next year, we’ll use a formal submissions process to ask the public what they think about adding these wonderful reminders of Brisbane’s past to the register to preserve them for future generations to admire.”

“This is the largest number of historically significant properties we’ve proposed to add to the register in almost five years.”

Cr Cooper said once property owners and the public gave the all clear, the new entries would be added to the register which already contained 2,070 significant properties.

“Owners will still be able to lodge applications to renovate or add to their heritage listed properties, but that work would have to be in keeping with the property’s overall appearance,” she said.






“Council’s Heritage Advisory Committee would have to approve any major proposed structural changes to listed properties.”

Council can provide grants of up to $15,000 to help cover costs associated with character home improvements or preservation, as well as advice on what building aspects owners could change or enhance.

Full list of proposed heritage register additions:

SUBURB NUMBER OF PROPERTIES
Chelmer 1, residence ‘Hurlton’
Clayfield 5, including residences ‘Dalcotta’, ‘Stanwraith’, ‘Girrawheen’ plus the entire Enderley Rd Heritage Precinct
Coorparoo 3, including Coorparoo Bowls Club
Corinda 3, including residence ‘Hardeen’
East Brisbane 1, Anglican Church Grammar School
Enoggera 1, Enoggera Scout Hall
Forest Lake 1, Homestead Park including site of ‘Archerfield’ homestead which burned down in the 1930s
Fortitude Valley 21, including The Osbourne Hotel, telephone exchange, Valley Fiveways building, Overells and Coniston Lanes, McDonald’s Bakery, and residences including ‘Italia’
Graceville 2, including Graceville Railway Station
Greenslopes 4, including Stones Corner Post Office
Indooroopilly 1, former Jacobi residence
Milton 1, residence ‘Restalric’
Morningside 3, including Rossiter’s House and Ernie Taylor’s former residence
New Farm 1, Maxwell St Precinct
Newstead 1, stone retaining wall cnr Chester St and Teneriffe Drive
Norman Park 2, including residence ‘Martimo’
Nundah 1, former PMG telephone exchange
Richlands 1, Richlands State School
Sherwood 2, including Lahey’s Sawmill
Wacol 1, Sananda Barracks Heritage Precinct
Woolloongabba 1, Buranda State School
Yeerongpilly 1, part of the Animal Research Institute site

[ENDS] December 8, 2009

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