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Former Gona Barracks Kelvin Grove FORMER GONA BARRACKS KELVIN GROVE FORMER GONA BARRACKS A Conservation Plan for the Queensland University of Technology ■ © COPYRIGHT Allom Lovell Pty Ltd, November 2004 G:\Projects\04015 CreativeInd QUT\Reports\r02.doc FORMER GONA BARRACKS CONTENTS ■ i 1 INTRODUCTION 4 1.1 BACKGROUND 4 1.2 HERITAGE LISTINGS 5 1.3 THIS REPORT 6 THE SITE 6 1.4 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS 7 2 UNDERSTANDING THE PLACE 8 2.1 A MILITARY BARRACKS 8 THE ENDOWMENT 8 FEDERATION AND DEFENCE 9 THE KELVIN GROVE DEFENCE RESERVE 11 THE INTERWAR PERIOD 13 THE SECOND WORLD WAR 16 REGULARS AND RESERVES 19 DISPOSAL OF THE BARRACKS 21 2.2 THE URBAN VILLAGE 22 DEMOLITION 23 CREATIVE INDUSTRIES 23 2.3 THE EARLY BUILDINGS 24 FORMER INFANTRY DRILL HALL (A25) 24 FORMER SERVICES DRILL HALL (A16) 25 THE FRANK MORAN MEMORIAL HALL (A21) 25 FORMER GARAGE AND WORKSHOP BUILDING (A26) 26 FORMER DINING ROOM (A31) 26 FORMER BRIGADE OFFICE (C39) 26 FORMER ARTILLERY DRILL HALL (C39) 27 FORMER GUN PARK (C33) 28 FORMER TOOWONG DRILL HALL (A3) 28 ANCILLARY BUILDINGS 29 THE PARADE GROUND 29 FORMER GONA BARRACKS CONTENTS ■ ii 2.4 VEGETATION 29 3 UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE 31 3.1 CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE 31 3.2 ANALYSIS 31 MILITARY BARRACKS 31 DRILL HALLS 33 3.3 STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE 38 EXTENT OF SIGNIFICANCE 39 3.4 PREVIOUS ASSESSMENTS 40 4 CONSERVATION POLICY 44 4.1 GENERAL PRINCIPLES 44 THE BURRA CHARTER 44 ENDORSEMENT AND REVIEW 45 STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS 45 SCOPE OF POLICIES 46 4.2 APPROACH 46 4.3 CONSERVATION OF BUILDING FABRIC 48 4.4 ADAPTATION OF BUILDING FABRIC 48 CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PRECINCT 49 4.5 REMOVAL OF BUILDINGS 49 4.6 NEW USES 50 4.7 NEW CONSTRUCTION 50 FORMER GONA BARRACKS CONTENTS ■ iii THE PARADE GROUND 50 4.8 INTERPRETATION 51 5 APPENDIX 52 5.1 NOTES 52 FORMER GONA BARRACKS 1 INTRODUCTION ■ 4 1 INTRODUCTION he former Gona Barracks is currently being redeveloped as part of T the Kelvin Grove Urban Village, a mixed use development containing residential, commercial and educational facilities and associated infrastructure. The Creative Industries Precinct of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is one element in the urban village, and the former barracks site. 1.1 B ACKGROUND Gona Barracks was first developed as a military reserve and training area in the early twentieth century. The Commonwealth government constructed a series of drill halls and associated training facilities within the barracks site just prior to and during the First World War. Further buildings and facilities were built during the Second World War and into the 1950s. Members of the Citizens Military Forces and the Australian Army Reserve were based at Kelvin Grove and trained there for many years. The site closed in the late 1990s. At the time of its disposal by the Commonwealth government Allom Lovell Architects prepared a heritage assessment and strategy for the Department of Defence.1 That study found that the Gona Barracks site was culturally significant, and contained buildings and other elements that were significant individually. In March 2000 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provisionally entered the former Gona Barracks site in the Queensland Heritage Register, as part of the cultural heritage of Queensland. An objection to the entry was made and the EPA appointed an assessor to inquire into that objection. Negotiations took place between the EPA, QUT and other sections of the Queensland government over the following months. As a result of these negotiations and the findings of the assessor’s report a reduced area of the former Gona Barracks site, namely that part known as the ‘upper barracks’, was permanently entered in the Queensland Heritage Register in December 2002. In 2000 the Queensland government acquired the former Gona Barracks site and since that time has, in conjunction with QUT, developed the Kelvin Grove Urban Village, incorporating the former barracks site and some adjacent land in accordance with a master plan prepared by Hassell Architects. The Creative Industries precinct of QUT opened as part of the urban village in February 2004. It is located in part of the upper barracks area along Kelvin Grove Road. Some of the former military buildings in this area have been retained and incorporated into the new development. FORMER GONA BARRACKS 1 INTRODUCTION ■ 5 Other lots within the urban village scheme are still to be developed – some by QUT for various uses and some by the private sector, while other parts of the village remain with the Department of Housing and will cater for residential and mixed uses. 1.2 H ERITAGE LISTINGS The former Gona Barracks site is entered in the Queensland Heritage Register of the Environmental Protection Agency, and in Schedule 1 of the Heritage Register Planning Scheme Policy of the Brisbane City Council City plan 2000. As the site is entered in the Queensland Heritage Register proposed development is subject to the provisions of the Queensland Heritage Act 1992 and the Integrated Planning Act 1997. In both acts “development” is defined as any of the following: Carrying out building work; Carrying out plumbing or drainage work; Carrying out operational work; Reconfiguring a lot; Making a material change of use of premises. Development within the former Gona Barracks site will be referred to the Environmental Protection Agency as a concurrence agency using the Integrated Development Assessment System (IDAS) of the Integrated Planning Act 1997. As the barracks site is entered in the BCC heritage register proposed development will also need to satisfy the provisions of the Heritage Place Code of the Brisbane City plan 2000, and the performance criteria of that code. The site is entered in the Register of the National Estate of the Australian Heritage Commission, as an ‘indicative place’. In 2004 the Register of the National Estate was superseded by two other heritage lists administered by the Commonwealth. Indeed the Australian Heritage Commission has been replaced by a new body, the Australian Heritage Council. It is unlikely that the site will be entered in the Commonwealth Heritage List (a list for Commonwealth-owned properties) or the National Heritage List (a list for nationally significant places) of the new Australian Heritage Council. The site is not listed by the National Trust of Queensland, a community organisation interested in the protection and conservation of cultural heritage. FORMER GONA BARRACKS 1 INTRODUCTION ■ 6 1.3 T HIS REPORT QUT has commissioned this conservation plan to guide the care, conservation and future development of the Creative Industries Precinct and the remainder of the site. It updates the earlier heritage assessment and strategy prepared by Allom Lovell Architects at the time of the Commonwealth’s disposal of the site, and reflects the various changes to the site, alterations and removal of buildings that have taken place since then. The work for this study has broadly followed that approach advocated by the Burra Charter of Australia ICOMOS and the guidelines to that document. Historical information about the site has been gathered and analysed in order to arrive at an understanding of its cultural significance. This process has been informed by an analysis of the physical fabric of the buildings and the broader site. From the significance assessment conservation policies have been prepared to conserve those parts of the former barracks area containing buildings and other elements of cultural significance. A companion document, a heritage management protocol, has been prepared for the Creative Industries Precinct of QUT. The protocol details the various processes and approvals required for conducting work on the site, taking into account the varying degrees of significance of the elements. The protocol document should be read and consulted by those proposing to make changes to the site with a view to the approvals processes required. T HE SITE The former Gona Barracks is located in Kelvin Grove in Brisbane’s inner north between Kelvin Grove and Victoria Park Roads. The upper barracks part of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village and entered in the heritage register is described as: Lots 1, 2, 3, 5, 903 and 905 on SP 151277 Parish of North Brisbane, County of Stanley. The heritage registered boundary for the site also includes the road reserves Gona Parade and part of Musk Avenue. This study examines only the heritage registered parts of the wider 1 Plan of the Gona Barracks site showing the lots Kelvin Grove Urban Village site. It does not examine in any great detail entered in the Heritage Register. [Allom the new buildings constructed at the site as part of the Creative Lovell] Industries Precinct. FORMER GONA BARRACKS 1 INTRODUCTION ■ 7 1.4 S UMMARY OF FINDINGS The study finds that the former Gona Barracks site, despite the level of alteration and adaptation that has taken place, is culturally significant. The remaining buildings in the upper barracks area provide evidence of the development of training facilities for the military prior to and during World War I. A series of drill halls for military training were constructed in this period, and while the construction of drill halls in this period was quite common the concentration of drill halls for different arms of the military in the one location of Kelvin Grove was unusual. Some of these drill halls are rare examples of their type. The placement of the military buildings overlooking the parade ground largely survives with the redevelopment of the upper barracks and allows for an appreciation of the historic structures; the parade ground itself being a significant element of the upper barracks site overall. The identified early buildings (the services drill hall, the infantry drill hall, Frank Moran Memorial Hall and the former garage/workshop) should be retained and conserved as part of the continued redevelopment of the upper barracks area for new purposes.
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