A homeowner must remove the solar panels he had installed on the roof of his Canterbury home because of the heritage restrictions in his neighbourhood. | By theage City Editor carawaters
Homeowner Richard Barnes was ordered to remove the photovoltaic panels from his roof in Melbourne’s East because of heritage restrictions.
Richard Barnes installed photovoltaic panels, which convert thermal energy into electricity, on the rooftop of his home in Melbourne’s east last year but received a notice from the City of Boroondara to remove them because his home is within a heritage overlay. Barnes said there was nothing more that could be done to change VCAT’s decision, but he wanted to ensure that other homeowners did not face the same battle.“It really brings it all to a head,” he said. “Are these things ugly? And do we still, in 2022, say ‘No, we don’t like them’? Or do we say ‘Well, actually there’s a climate crisis, and let’s forget all that stuff now’.”
Barnes already has solar hot water panels on his home’s small north-facing roof and so installed the PV panels on the east and west-facing roofs. Simon Ambrose, chief executive of the Victorian branch of the National Trust of Australia, said the heritage group supported the use of solar panels on heritage buildings as it made them more sustainable and encouraged their ongoing use.
A spokeswoman for the National Trust said different councils adopted different approaches to solar panels on heritage buildings.“State-wide planning provisions facilitate the uptake of rooftop solar, and a planning permit is not required in the vast majority of cases,” she said. “Matters regarding local planning schemes are a matter for council.
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