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Newtown Heritage Study Review, July 2009 – Volume 1 1.15 RECOMMENDATIONS 1.15.1 Statutory Protection It is recommended that the heritage places identified, assessed and documented according to the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter and the Criteria for the Register of the National Estate (as prescribed in the VPP Practice Note: Applying the Heritage Overlay) be considered for the following statutory protection: • 11 heritage precinct areas for the Greater Geelong Planning Scheme (to be included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay to Clause 43.01 of the planning scheme). Copies of maps can be found at the end of this section. • 31 places outside the heritage precinct areas for the Greater Geelong Planning Scheme (to be included in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay to Clause 43.01 of the planning scheme). All places will be mapped in the relevant planning scheme HO maps. As an interim measure, all the places including individual heritage places and precinct areas recommended for inclusion in a Heritage Overlay in the planning scheme be included in an interim heritage control through Clause 43.01 Heritage Overlay during the preparation of a formal planning scheme amendment. 1.15.2 Reference Documents It is recommended that the Newtown Heritage Review Study (all Volumes) be included as Reference Documents in the “References” sections of Clauses 21.16 and 22.20 and in the relevant sections of each local heritage precinct policy in the Greater Geelong Planning Scheme. 1.15.3 Heritage Places All places identified in the Study will be subject to the planning policies in Clause 21.16 Cultural Heritage and Clause 22.20 Cultural Heritage to the planning scheme. In addition places identified in the heritage precinct areas will be subject to the relevant policy to be prepared for each precinct. This is in addition to the policies contained in the State Planning Policy Framework Clause 15.11 Heritage. 1.15.4 HERMES & Victorian Heritage Database All data from the Newtown Heritage Study Review Volume 2 Inventory are recommended to be included on the HERMES database. This will allow for filtered information to be made available to the public online. Prepared by City of Greater Geelong 32
Newtown Heritage Study Review, July 2009 – Volume 1 SECTION 2 2 Aberdeen Heritage Precinct 2.1 Precinct Boundaries The Aberdeen Heritage Precinct is located between 117 -153 Aberdeen Street in Newtown. The precinct also consists of properties at 2 to 6 Cumberland Street (evens) and 42, 42, 43 and 45 George Street, Newtown in the Parish of Moorpanyal, County of Grant. 2.2 Contextual Background Historical Evidence (refer to historical figures at the rear of this section) The initial Years In 1837, Newtown and Chilwell formed part of the earliest suburbs in the Geelong area, then under the control of New South Wales. Earlier that year, Governor Bourke of New South Wales visited Geelong with Government Surveyor, Robert Hoddle. It was at this time when Newtown was described by early visitors as a delightful place for a village. 1 As a result of Hoddle’s visit, Henry Wilson Smythe was sent over from Sydney with instructions to survey a site between “Corio Bay and the Barwon River for a township and streets”. The plan drawn up by Smythe was revised by Hoddle and signed by him on the 21 st August 1838. 2 The first land sale on 3 October 1839, made available land bound by today’s Shannon Avenue, Aberdeen and Pakington Streets and the Barwon River, mostly 25 acre blocks, except for the irregular river allotments of Section V, Parish of Moorpanyal. 3 Sales by auction and private contract continued slowly throughout 1841. The area was first known as New Town. The first Crown owners acquired land from 1840. G F Read was the first purchaser of Allotment 4, Section 7, Parish of Moorpanyal, County of Grant at the Crown land sales in Melbourne, 26 th August 1840. The allotment contained 25 acres located on the west side of Frederick Street (now Cumberland Street) and had a frontage to what is now Aberdeen Street (Figure 2.01). 4 Residential Developments As part the McLeods Estate in the 1850’s land fronting the southern side of Aberdeen Street (between Frederick Street (Cumberland Street) and George Street) was subdivided for residential development. The lot sizes to the frontage are small between 35 feet to 41 feet and it would appear that this plan did not eventuate (Figure 2.02). 5 A subdivision plan prepared by Gibbons and Grist Surveyors dated c. 1858 shows land between Pakington Street (known as Great North Road) and Cumberland Road (referred to as Frederick Street) and Skene Street and Great Western Road (Aberdeen Street) (Figure 2.03). 6 The plan identifies some buildings within Skene Street. 1 City of Newtown and Chilwell Centenary 1858-1958 page 3. 2 The Earlier Days of Newtown and Chilwell 1858-1958 page 5. 3 Model Borough “An Introduction to old Newtown and Chilwell” by Gladys Seaton p 13. 4 Moorpanyal Parish Plan, Source: Geelong Heritage Centre, 1989. 5 N McLeods Subdivision Plan 1850’s. 6 Plan of Subdivision prepared by Gibbons and Grist Surveyors 1858. Prepared by City of Greater Geelong 33
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