Decaying century-old concrete roads in Melbourne’s east will be restored – rather than replaced – under a plan to protect the heritage value of some streets.
Decaying century-old concrete roads in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs will be restored rather than replaced by cheaper asphalt under a council plan to protect the heritage value of some historical streets.
There are 10 areas in Boroondara where the road surface is considered to be part of the “heritage significance”, covering three kilometres – 15 per cent of the council’s concrete roads. In Golf Links Estate, an area built between the 1920s and 1930s now covered by a heritage overlay, the statement of significance says it is “a predominantly intact interwar landscape containing concrete roads”.
Hawthorn Historical Society member George Demetrios said concrete roads had become increasingly rare in Melbourne and were a feature of the period following World War I.He said heritage groups feared the plan to protect concrete roads didn’t go far enough and should cover more than just three kilometres.
“They are a century’s worth of heritage,” Demetrios said. “It fits in with the area – it’s all art deco housing and housing that can linked to that period of time when the roads were built.”
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