Concerns modernist mid-century homes will be at risk of demolition if councillors spurn a heritage protection push.
Residents fear modernist mid-century homes in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs will be at risk of demolition if a bid for heritage protection is rejected on Tuesday night.
“It is heartbreaking to see how many significant houses we have lost in Beaumaris because of council inaction,” she said. “Several groups in the community, including Beaumaris Modern, are concerned that after all this effort and all this time, a small group of anti-heritage councillors will vote against the amendment.”
Bayside City Council abandoned attempts to include properties in municipality-wide heritage studies in 2008 and 2018 after residents complained and “all hell broke loose”, according to the mayor at the time.Two significant postwar homes have since been demolished, including the award-winning Breedon House in Brighton, designed by architect Geoffrey Woodfall, and a home on Nautilus Street, Beaumaris, designed by Charles Bricknell.
However, resident Darryl Behrendorff, whose home is one of the 59 properties set to be included in the heritage overlay, said he was opposed to the heritage listing. Behrendorff said a heritage listing meant that other home owners in the street would be able to subdivide their blocks but he would not.He also questioned whether postwar modernist homes were significant enough to have heritage listing.
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