GCC Oran Park Precinct Heritage Assessment
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GCC Oran Park Precinct Heritage Assessment Report prepared for the Growth Centres Commission March 2007 Report Register The following report register documents the development and issue of the report entitled GCC Oran Park Precinct—Heritage Assessment, undertaken by Godden Mackay Logan Pty Ltd in accordance with its quality management system. Godden Mackay Logan operates under a quality management system which has been certified as complying with the Australian/New Zealand Standard for quality management systems AS/NZS ISO 9001:2000. Job No. Issue No. Notes/Description Issue Date 06-0469 1 Draft Report 19 January 2007 06-0469 2 Final Report 19 March 2007 Contents Page 1.0 Introduction............................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Background..........................................................................................................................................1 1.2 The Oran Park Precinct.......................................................................................................................1 1.3 Existing Heritage Listings ....................................................................................................................1 1.4 Objectives ............................................................................................................................................1 1.5 Methodology and Terminology ...........................................................................................................1 1.6 Limitations and Qualifications .............................................................................................................2 1.7 Authorship............................................................................................................................................2 1.8 Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................................2 2.0 Historical Development—Oran Park Precinct...................................................................................7 2.1 Pre-Contact Aboriginal History............................................................................................................7 2.2 Early European Settlement in the Cowpastures ................................................................................7 2.3 The Oran Park Precinct.......................................................................................................................8 2.3.1 The First European Grants...........................................................................................................8 2.3.2 The Denbigh Estate Grant............................................................................................................8 2.3.3 Denbigh’s Neighbouring Grants...................................................................................................9 2.3.4 The Development of Denbigh 1826–2006...................................................................................9 2.3.5 Surrounding Estates ...................................................................................................................10 2.3.6 World War II ................................................................................................................................12 2.4 Endnotes............................................................................................................................................19 3.0 The Draft Indicative Layout Plan.......................................................................................................21 3.1 Description.........................................................................................................................................21 4.0 The Potential Archaeological Resource and the Draft Indicative Layout Plan..........................25 4.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................25 4.2 Heritage Listings—Archaeology .......................................................................................................25 4.3 Archaeological Heritage Provisions ..................................................................................................25 4.4 Phases of Development and Occupation—General Comments.....................................................26 4.5 Potential Archaeological Resources.................................................................................................26 4.5.1 Potential Features—General Observations...............................................................................26 4.5.2 Specific Potential Archaeological Remains ...............................................................................27 4.6 Factors Relevant to the Potential for Survival of the Archaeological Resource..............................29 4.6.1 Potential Relics ...........................................................................................................................29 4.6.2 Summary of the Potential Archaeological Resource.................................................................32 4.7 Heritage Significance.........................................................................................................................33 4.8 Potential Constraints on the Draft Indicative Layout Plan Arising out of the Potential Historical Archaeological Resource .........................................................................................................................34 4.9 Recommendations ............................................................................................................................34 4.10 Endnotes..........................................................................................................................................35 GCC Oran Park Precinct—Heritage Assessment, March 2007 5.0 Cultural Landscape and Visual Values and the Draft Indicative Layout Plan............................37 5.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................37 5.1.1 Background.................................................................................................................................37 5.1.2 Precinct Description....................................................................................................................37 5.1.3 General Character ......................................................................................................................37 5.2 Previous Cultural Landscape and Visual Assessments...................................................................37 5.2.1 Denbigh Curtilage Study, July 2006...........................................................................................37 5.2.2 Colonial Landscapes of the Cumberland Plain and Camden, NSW, August 2000 .................39 5.3 Potential Landscape and Visual Impacts of Draft Indicative Layout Plan .......................................39 5.3.1 Denbigh Homestead and Associated Landscape.....................................................................39 5.3.2 Oran Park House and Associated Landscape (In Close Proximity to Oran Park Precinct).....42 5.3.3 The Northern Road.....................................................................................................................42 5.4 Endnotes............................................................................................................................................51 6.0 Heritage Items and the Draft Indicative Layout Plan .....................................................................53 6.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................53 6.2 Heritage Act 1977 (NSW)..................................................................................................................53 6.2.1 State Heritage Register (SHR) Items.........................................................................................53 6.3 Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979........................................................................55 6.3.1 Camden Local Environmental Plans (LEPs) .............................................................................55 6.4 Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cwlth).......................................56 6.4.1 Register of the National Estate...................................................................................................56 6.5 NSW Government’s Metropolitan Strategy ......................................................................................56 6.5.1 Structure Plan for the South West Growth Centre ....................................................................57 6.6 Non-Statutory Listings .......................................................................................................................57 6.6.1 National Trust Register...............................................................................................................57 6.7 Heritage Values: Non-Heritage Items...............................................................................................57 6.7.1 Oran Park Raceway ...................................................................................................................57