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Menangle Community Association Care, Honour, Heritage Maurice Blackwood. Menangle Community Association 310 Moreton Park Road, Douglas Park, NSW. 2569 Department of Planning - 12 NOV 2015 Menanale Villaae. Cane Chestnut 10th 2015. Scauing Room November, David Fitzgibbon PCU062670PCU062670 Senior Precinct Planner Housing Land Release Department of Planning & Environment GPO Box 39 SYDNEY NSW 2001 11111 Dear David, III1111,1111211111 1 Investigation Re: The Greater Macarthur Development discussed. Please find enclosed a memory stick with the large files we heritage significance of the Menangle Village, and These are the two major reports about the it's Landscape. Significance and Proposed Menangle Landscape Conservation Area Assessment of a. its approval and Boundaries, June 2012, completed for Wollondilly Council, prior to gazetting. This is the second conservation. Menangle Village and its 1. This report details the heritage significance of the Landscape. of the criteria of the NSW 2. It confirms that the area achieves most if not all seven been sought, Heritage Act 1977. (Page 136, 5.4), but no such listing has ever developments from our because it will not save the landscape from proposed experience. completed prior to mining. b. BHP's Non Aboriginal Heritage assessment, 2009, Village; such is the density of 1. The report lists 22 items of heritage in Menangle heritage in Menangle. heritage author being 2. These 22 items of heritage interest, judged by the as is in doing so. significant, are mostly unlisted, because again there no purpose of the criteria of the NSW 3. These 22 items all achieve the minimum of two seven high degree of significance. Heritage Act 1977, with an average of 3.9, indicating their apart from the associations to 4. This is confirmation of the areas significance on its own outside of examination! the Camden Park Estate area which unbelievably is your area to reflect the heritage in Menangle I do hope you will be able to correct your draft strategy previously requested. and that somehow you better identify the area as Yours sincerely, 0417218462. Maurice Blackwood, Menangle Community Association. Ph MENANGLE LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION AREA ASSESSMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE & PROPOSED BOUNDARIES A Report prepared by Chris Betteridge, MUSEcape Pty Ltd for Wollondilly Shire Council Final Draft, 19 June 2012 MUSEcape Pty Ltd A.B.N. 18 053 849 979 42 BOTANY STREET RANDWICK NSW 2031 T E L. (0 2) 9 3 1 4 6 6 4 2 F A X. (0 2) 9 3 9 8 7 0 8 6 E-MAIL. [email protected] M 0 B I L E : 0 4 1 9 2 3 8 9 9 6 M 0 B I L E : 0 4 1 9 0 1 1 3 4 7 ooOoo SPECIALISTS IN THE IDENTIFICATION, ASSESSMENT, MANAGEMENT & INTERPRETATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary 6 1.0 Introduction ............................................................................................ 8 1.1 The Brief ............................................................................................. 8 1.2 The Study Area ................................................................................... 8 1.3 Methodology ....................................................................................... 9 1.4 Authorship ......................................................................................... 10 1.5 Acknowledgments ............................................................................. 10 1.6 Limitations & Disclaimer .................................................................... 11 1.7 Definition of Terms ............................................................................ 11 1.8 Abbreviations .................................................................................... 12 1.9 Measurement Units ........................................................................... 13 2.0 Previous Study Reports and Statutory Controls ................................... 14 2.1 Menangle Village Development Guidelines 1991 ............................. 14 2.2 Draft Menangle Village Development Control Plan ........................... 15 2.3 Menangle Village Conservation Area and DCP ................................ 16 2.4 Macarthur South Paper, Regional Environmental Study 1991 .......... 16 2.5 Wollondilly Vision 2025 ..................................................................... 17 2.6 Wollondilly Economic Development Study 2007 ............................... 18 2.7 Wollondilly Industrial Lands Assessment Criteria March 2008 .......... 18 2.8 Draft Wollondilly LEP 2009 ............................................................... 20 2.9 Planning Proposal Employment Lands Moreton Park Rd, Menangle 20 2.10 Elton Consulting Planning Proposal March 2011 ........................... 21 2.11 Wollondilly LEP 2011 ..................................................................... 23 2.12 Wollondilly Development Control Plan 2011 .................................. 24 2.13 Wollondilly Growth Management Strategy 2011 ............................ 25 2.14 Amendment to Wollondilly LEP 2011 Menangle Landscape Conservation Area (Extension of Menangle Heritage Conservation Area) ................................................................................................... 26 3.0 Analysis of Documentary & Physical Evidence…………………………27 3.1 Documentary Evidence ..................................................................... 30 3.1.2 The Cowpastures District ........................................................... 32 3.1.3 Early settlement at Camden Park ............................................... 34 3.1.4 Extending the estate ................................................................... 35 3.1.5 Diversifying the activities of the estate: 1817 to mid-1830s ........ 37 3.1.6 John Macarthur’s Legacy ........................................................... 38 3.1.7 Migrant workers 1830s to 1840s ................................................ 40 3.1.8 Camden Village .......................................................................... 40 3.1.9 Leasehold settlement ................................................................. 41 3.1.10 Harder times ........................................................................... 45 3.1.11 The changing scene: the 1840s to 1850s ............................... 45 3.1.12 Floods and Drought................................................................. 47 3.1.13 The Coming of the Railway ..................................................... 48 3.1.14 Generational change ............................................................... 49 3 3.1.15 A School and a Church at Menangle....................................... 50 3.1.16 Selling off the farms: the 1880s ..................... 50_Toc327912122 3.1.17 The introduction of dairying on the Camden Park estate ........ 53 3.1.18 Camden Park Estate Ltd ......................................................... 55 3.1.19 The 1880s to World War I ....................................................... 55 3.1.20 Consolidation and sale ............................................................ 62 3.1.21 The death of Elizabeth Macarthur-Onslow and the war .......... 64 3.1.22 Post World War I to early 1930s ............................................. 64 3.1.23 New management: 1930s to 1940s......................................... 66 3.1.24 Modern marketing: the Milk Bar .............................................. 68 3.1.25 Modern dairying: the 1950s to 1960s ...................................... 71 3.1.26 ‘Drought-proofing’ with the Keyline system ............................. 75 3.1.27 Paying for improvements: the 1950s to 1960s ........................ 77 3.1.28 Declining returns: the 1960s to 1970s ..................................... 78 3.1.29 The sale of Camden Park Estate Ltd ...................................... 78 3.1.30 The State Government Steps In .............................................. 79 3.1.31 Government ownership ........................................................... 80 3.1.32 A new agricultural purpose ...................................................... 81 3.1.33 Researching and preserving the heritage of Camden Park..... 82 3.1.34 The Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute ......................... 83 3.1.35 Recent Developments ............................................................. 84 3.2 A Thematic Approach ....................................................................... 85 3.2.1 National, State and Local Themes ............................................. 85 3.3 Summary of changes to the Macarthur lands ................................... 96 4.0 Description & Analysis of Physical Evidence ....................................... 99 4.1 The Environmental Context .............................................................. 99 4.2 Built Elements ................................................................................. 100 4.2.1 Cottage 28, Menangle office and flats (EMAI OLB 001) ........... 101 4.2.2 Cottage, 50 Menangle Road, Menangle (EMAI Cottage 29) .... 102 4.2.3 Storage shed, Menangle Yard (OLB 004) ................................ 104 4.2.4 Menangle Gate Lodge / Cottage 27 (EMAI OLB 009) .............. 105 4.2.5 No 4 Dairy Cottage, 65 Woodbridge Road, Menangle ............. 108 4.2.6 Feed stalls, hay shed and silos, No 4 Dairy (EMAI OLB 042) .. 109 4.2.7 Brick milking shed, No 4 Dairy (EMAI OLB 044) ...................... 110 4.2.8 Mount Taurus Complex ............................................................ 111 4.2.9 Former Camden Park Estate Cottages in Menangle Rd & Station Street .......................................................................................