Pulling threads in our heritage conservation areas risks unravelling the built history of our city, and it may not solve the housing crisis.
heritage precincts after sweeping them away. And Sydney, with its beautiful bungalows in heritage conservation areas, is revving up the bulldozers.
”Heritage items and conservation areas are part of the weft and weave of any great metropolis,” says Sydney architect Patrick O’Carrigan. “These estates are not the outcome of haphazard B-grade development, where you randomly find six-storey buildings here and there, according to who owns or amalgamates sites first. Yet once one thread is undone, the whole significance of an area is at grave risk of quickly unravelling.”saved The Rocks for generations of schoolchildren and tourists to learn about our history, attracting their delight and their dollars., near Penrith.
Developers say they crave certainty, which seems to equate with slippery-smooth approval paths, preferential zoning and sidelined opposition. “But surely the same argument can be made for those who bought into conservation areas – at a premium – thinking this bought them certainty that the charm and ambience of the area would be protected,” O’Carrigan says. “Now these same home-owners face a free-for-all because they live within an arbitrary distance of heavy rail.
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