My heritage place
All Saints Anglican Church at Tamrookum near Beaudesert is family-owned, built in 1915 as a memorial to Robert Martin Collins, one of the advocates of Queensland’s...
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- The Fortitude Valley Neighbourhood Plan
Fortitude Valley’s unique character could be lost if the Brisbane City Council’s draft neighbourhood plan for the area goes ahead unchallenged. Queensland Heritage Council believes that the Fortitude Valley Neighbourhood Plan pays only lip service to the heritage and character of one of Queensland’s earliest commercial centres.
“The Fortitude Valley Neighbourhood Plan talks about the Valley’s unique heritage and character places; about controls to safeguard heritage and direct new development. But there’s nothing of substance to back the claim: no quantifiable heritage protection principles or codes; no heritage conservation zone for the most sensitive Valley Heart as appeared in previous documentation,” Mr Howard Guille, the QHC Policy Committee chair, said.
“As the plan reads now, 30-storey towers will dwarf character buildings. Worse, we could see heritage frontages retained without context of substance. This is a total retreat from earlier planning iterations. Some key innovations – like a heritage conservation zone – have vanished from the plan. Left unchanged and unchallenged, cultural heritage will be the next to disappear.”