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Director: Sky Planning | Lecturer: Building a Sustainable World | Speaker: Future Crunch | Solarpunk: Planet Earth | Co-Founder: Sydney YIMBY | Top 100 Women in Construction
Heritage planning controls in NSW?? They are completely out of control! Yes we should and must preserve unique, individual buildings… but heritage conservation areas (HCAs) that lock up entire streets and neighbourhoods??? Particularly in well located urban areas? Now that is regressive and it’s bad for the economy and society. Not too mention for the mums and dads who simply want to extend their existing home for a growing family - I’ve seen DAs for this knocked back entirely, or reduced to outdated living sizes, or unreasonably expensive restrictions imposed, all because their house is within a HCA. Town planning is about making decisions that balance social, environmental and economic factors and needs - yet in the planning process the past is given wildly more weight then anything else - even at the expense of the needs of today's population and a well-functioning city. Why should people be forced to pay more, only to live in substandard housing conditions? Let's be progressive in design and architecture rather than designing in a way that no longer serves modern lifestyles or today’s population (and I won't go into faux heritage design 🤢!) Has anyone asked why our streets need to look like the past? Does that truly hold more value than allowing our streets to look like the present and our future? Keep the unique iconic heritage items that represent and hold our history. But let the future story of Sydney unfold in the buildings on our streets and neighbourhoods!!! Sydney YIMBY #townplanning #progress #globalcity #liveablecity #futurecities #heritage #planningcontrols Story in the daily tele https://lnkd.in/gGsxUtP7
a palm tree from the carribeans (i.e. non native species to Australia) is a heritage item in Wahroonga
Our heritage controls are out of control. HCAs should be scrapped (or extremely limited).
New York City is a great example of how town planners acknowledge heritage buildings but only to a rational point. Their primary focus is speed and development progress for their city.
thanks for your informative article. there are certainly some significant heritage houses which should be preserved. however some streets in centrally located HCA’s don’t even have any heritage houses in them!
I agree
Registered Planner | Director at Planning Partnerships | Greenfields & housing approvals specialist.
3dHCA DAs aren’t that hard as long as the applicant respects their significance. Engage an architect skilled and successful with DAs iin HCAs, design to respect the character of the CA, meet Council’s heritage officer pre lodgement and negotiate design changes if needed to hopefully secure approval. I’ve only had one refused in 25 years of DAs due to poor design, upheld by the LEC.