Archive for September, 2007

The 1930s moderne-style carpark was recently subject to a development proposal for a multi-storey office tower. It is on the heritage register because it was the first of it’s type in the city of Melbourne. Dissapointingly the state government through VCAT has overruled the legal protection status of Heritage Victoria’s Victorian Heritage Regiser (VHR) and granted the developer an exemption to allowed much of the building to be demolished and only parts of the external fabric of the building to be retained. Other heritage buildings on the site WILL be demolished, including the 1920s style Scots church hall, resulting in the loss of one of few remaining consistent human scale streetscapes in the city.