Arden, 1045 Burke Road HAWTHORN EAST
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Marika Dobbin Reporter for The Age
Battles brewing over new zones
Too late ... Historic Arden, in Hawthorn East will be knocked down to make way for a four-storey apartment block. |
| Too late ... Historic Arden, in Hawthorn East will be knocked down to make way for a four-storey apartment block. |
- "Mr Guy is big on quoting he is against inappropriate development, yet things like this are being approved consistently."
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| In with the new ... An artist's impression of the apartment complex on Burke Road that will replace Arden. |
The new system comes too late for more than 100 residents who fought to save a historic house in Hawthorn East that is to be demolished to make way for a four-storey apartment block. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Monday granted a demolition permit for the heritage-listed house, built in 1906, to make way for 33 apartments.
- Resident Terry Dear said while the house, called Arden, fronted busy Burke Road, it also overlooked a smaller road at the side and ''an entire heritage precinct that is now effectively ruined.
- ''It's a beautiful old house with the highest heritage rating and is in amazing condition,'' he said. ''Mr Guy is big on quoting he is against inappropriate development, yet things like this are being approved consistently.''
- "This proposal adds to the ever-growing number of this sort of development proposed throughout Hawthorn, Canterbury and Camberwell; it is quite alarming to wonder what is going to become of these gracious, leafy suburbs," Ms Dear said.
- The Hawthorn Historical Society is alerting residents to 7 Riversdale Road, a brick Victorian house slated to be replaced by 33 flats. The house is next to the heritage-listed mansion Leongatha and is named in the 1992 Hawthorn heritage study.
- "We certainly would support interim controls. Council, to their credit, have disallowed applications they think are inappropriate, but developers have no hesitation in going to VCAT," HHS president Shirley Ramsay said.
COMMUNITY activists are pressing the state government for interim controls to preserve historic houses until the new metropolitan planning strategy comes into force.
- Planning Minister Matthew Guy was due to meet this week with leaders of about 20 residents' groups from around Melbourne, including the Boroondara Residents Action Group. The groups planned to ask for an extension for submissions to the new strategy, saying the deadline of March 1 does not give residents or councils enough time.
- RL understands the groups also planned to ask Mr Guy to consider interim heritage protection while the strategy is devised.
- "We have been battling to preserve our heritage areas, and we deplore the pulling down of houses that go back in time in Boroondara," BRAG president Jack Roach said.
- The National Trust, which held an informal meeting of residents' groups on December 14, is believed to be in favour of interim protection.
- The move comes amid campaigns to save two historic Boroondara houses.[1]
'Arden' is an ornate tuckpointed brick Edwardian quietly secluded on a prime corner allotment spanning Burke and Rathmines Roads providing substantial family accommodation and excellent outdoor amenities including tennis court and in-ground pool.
- A doctor's residence for 60 years, 'Arden' retains magnificent original character with upstairs CBD skyline view while superbly updated for exceptional modern living.
- Offers five bedrooms including commodious downstairs main with WIR and opulent two-room marble ensuite enjoying sunken corner spa and bidet, a generous formal livingroom with delightful garden aspects (out the box window there remains a whisper of Edna Walling who designed a garden here for Sir Cecil Colville) and elegant sitting and dining rooms which are all independent while joining when desired for grand formal entertaining;
- North-facing family room on polished Jarrah floors, a stunning granite Blanco-equipped kitchen, 2 further bathrooms, ducted heating and OFPs.
- Welcome additions to this gracious attic-style home's great outdoors include a solar heated saltwater pool and spa plus N-S Mod-Grass floodlit tennis court creating a wonderful leisure and entertainment sanctuary. Also includes ample off-street parking for 4/5 cars and cellar. Land 1739m2 (18,720 sq ft)[2]
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