HERITAGE ASSESSMENT ABC TV STUDIOS, 8 GORDON STREET, RIPPONLEA for GLEN EIRA CITY COUNCIL
HERITAGE ASSESSMENT ABC TV STUDIOS, 8 GORDON STREET, RIPPONLEA for GLEN EIRA CITY COUNCIL JUNE, 2018 It's hard not to feel sentimental about it. This place was built as a factory of entertainment. Actor, Charlie Pickering ABV 2 offices from Gordon Street, circa.1961. Source, www.ABV2.net.au Heritage Assessment – ABC studios, Ripponlea Glen Eira Council Background: Heritage ALLIANCE was engaged to assess the heritage values of the ABC Gordon Street studios by Glen Eira City Council in April 2018, with a view to possible listing on the heritage schedule of the Glen Eira Planning Scheme. This was in response to the preparation and public consultation of a Structure Plan for Elsternwick which includes the subject site. In April 2017, the ABC sold its Selwyn Street, Elsternwick facility and the relocation of the last ABC staff from Gordon Street occurred in late 2017. The building is now decommissioned and all ABC services and functions have been relocated to Southbank studios. ABC management have made public statements about the sale of the Gordon Street site and this has prompted an assessment of its values. Glen Eira City Council has developed Structure Plans for Bentleigh, Carnegie and Elsternwick. Development and future land use, transport and parking, types and height of buildings, employment, open spaces, infrastructure and the preservation and protection of neighbourhood character are included in the plans. Public comment on the plans was invited during November and December 2017. The adopted Elsternwick Structure Plan, February 2018 shows the ABC Gordon Street site as a Strategic Site of 6-8 storeys with a 3 storey podium, with a triangle of new open space to the north where the car park is situated now.
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