heritage
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Gisborne bridge fight to planning panel
The fight to protect Gisborne’s Bunjil Creek bridge, bluestone channel and significant trees will progress to an independent planning panel. Last week Macedon Ranges Council revealed the Department of Transport had denied any heritage value of these features that are threatened as intersection works on Kilmore Road continue. The $12.5 million upgrade was a Labor…
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Restoration plans for Ellim-eek
An “abundance of vacant commercial properties in Kyneton” has helped secure the restoration of a circa 1906 house of heritage significance. The Edwardian single-storey brick building at 178 Mollison Street, also known as Ellim-eek, was at the centre of council debate last week over plans for a two-lot subdivision that would change its use from…
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Residents vow to fight
The residents of Kyneton’s oldest street are readying their pitchforks to greet council contractors planning to dig up their street’s heritage bluestone guttering. Macedon Ranges Shire Council has plans to dig up and relay the bluestone gutters in a new configuration along the east side of Edgecombe Street where the bluestones were the first to…
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Residents gutted
A council plan to dig up heritage bluestone guttering in one of Kyneton’s oldest streets has residents threatening to form a human barricade to prevent the works. Edgecombe Street residents Dale and Helen Gillis say they appreciate the need for safety improvements to the school precinct along the west side of their street, but argue…
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Urgent repair order
Heritage Victoria has demanded the owners of the old Kyneton Hospital secure and protect the historic site or face large fines. Heritage Victoria served the Show Cause Notice to the site owners on August 3 for allowing the place to fall into disrepair to the extent that its conservation is threatened. The Kyneton Hospital is…
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Repair order for neglected site
Urgent repair orders have been issued for heritage-listed Macedon House in Gisborne. Heritage Victoria served the notice late last month stating, “owners had allowed the heritage property to fall into disrepair to the extent that its conservation is threatened”. “The property has been allowed to fall into disrepair while the current owners pursue planning permission…