□ D 0 o· D .o ·o D 0 D C C 0 0 0 0 As adopted by Council on the 17 June 1997 0 0 1111 0 A02961 C CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Inventory 1.2 Management of Places on the Inventory 1.3 Heritage Precincts 2.0 HISTORIC OVERVIEW 2.1 Making a Beginning 2.2 Progress and Conflict 2.3 Convicts, Cottars and Capitalists 2.4 Setting the foundations 2.5 Co-operation and Change 2.6 Social and Economic Change 2.7 The war and its aftermath 2.8 A City indeed 1960 -1996 3.0 THEMATIC FRAMEWORK 4.0 MANAGEMENT CATEGORIES 5.0 MUNICIPAL INVENTORY LIST APPENDIX I EXECUTIVE SUMMARY U In December 1990 the Heritage of Western Australia Act was proclaimed. This Act seeks to (j encourage the conservation of places which have significance to the cultural heritage in the State. It is under this Act (Heritage of Western Australia 1990) that the all Local Municipalities across the State are required to prepare a Municipal Inventory. A Municipal Inventory in its simplest form is a list of places that the community see as important and/or representative of their heritage. These places may be aesthetic, historic, social or scientific in value. The City of Stirling began formulating this Municipal Inventory with the appointment of consultants n Considine and Griffiths in 1995. The process has taken over twelve months and has involved many l community groups and representatives who gave up considerable amounts of their time to participate in the process. They provided invaluable local historic and social information and undertook research on various places to ascertain their importance including nominating places for listing. In general the process has involved field work such as: Exterior assessment from the street; Photographic records of places; Historic research by Historian Dorothy Erickson ; Searching historical records such as plans, published and unpublished text; Recording the social history of identities and families who lived in the area; H Researching previous surveys of heritage places. :J rr In identifying places of significance a historic overview was prepared outlining the historic development of the Municipality. Major stories or themes were drawn from this information such as, n settlement, transport, economy, social and cultural life and people. Finally the Municipal Inventory contains a summary of the places and a copy of the data base sheet that provides a more comprehensive review of the place. n STIRLING MUNICIPAL INVENTORY CQNSIDINE AND GRIFFITHS ARCHITECTS with DOROTHY ERICKSON ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Considine and Griffiths and Dorothy Erickson would like to thank the following people for assistance in revising the draft history and contributing to the historical overview by Cooper & McDonald. Professor Bill Cooper: Information on War Service and housing estates from c1940. Mr Dino Gava: Notes of interviews he conducted with local identities in the Osborne Park area. Mr Don Edwards, North Suburban Historical Society: Notes from interviews he conducted with North Beach Identities. Mr Jeff Considine: Results of discussions with Scarborough and Trigg identities. Rae Kolb NSHS: Information on Carine and Balga TAFE's and the Lime Kiln and Cottage on Daviot Park. Robert Bowe, Homeswest Land Development officer: Information supplied on Innaloo and Scarborough. Barrie Baker: Mount Lawley Society: Information on business leaders in Mount Lawley. Colin Moore: Maps of Wembley Downs quarries. Trevor Arbuckle: Maps and rate book entries of Careniup Swamp area. Adrian Skelsey: Photocopy of title deeds to the former Mills Pottery land in Maylands Miriam Baker: Local knowledge of the Municipality Stephen Carrick BMA: Lists of government Schools in the area and lists of award winning houses in the district. Surveys Phylis Robertson, NSHS: Survey of Balga and Mirrabooka houses. Kelly Aris: Survey of Dianella houses. Don Edwards, NSHS: Survey of North Beach and Waterman houses. D 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 THE INVENTORY D The Inventory is, at its simplest level, a list of Heritage Places that are of importance and relevance to the local community. The community can also, through its Town Planning Scheme, afford D protective measures in relation to development. In addition, the community may decide to encourage conservation by initiating some incentives to owners of properties that are considered to be of heritage value. ^ The Heritage Council may submit those places identified in Category 1 to its own rigorous assessment process with a view to include some of them on the Register of Heritage Places, should ["I they meet the relevant criteria. W a The Municipal Inventory is a requirement under the Heritage of Western Australian Act 1990, and is one of three statutory levels of heritage lists. The other two lists, which are maintained by the D Heritage Council are the: Statutory Database - a general list of places of cultural significance; 0 The Register - a list of places of State significance. 0 The Municipal Inventory has an important role to play in the conservation of the State's heritage. A number of Western Australian towns have already recognised the importance of heritage and, in • advance of the implementation of the Heritage Act, brought in their own lists and some appropriate town planning clauses to protect identified heritage. This was done on the basis of Surveys of the • National Estate carried out between 1976 and 1978. D The Municipal Inventory is designed to contribute to the conservation of our heritage through: H • It's contribution to the town planning process, contributing to the management of the community's resources and environment, and to help to ensure that change is managed with Q due regard for heritage values; • It's contribution to community projects such as townscape, heritage trails, cultural tourism and local history; D • Assisting to define the community's sense of place by identifying places that are tangible embodiment of cultural, aesthetic, historical, scientific and social values; D • Contributing to a body of reference information against which to judge the significant individual places, and craeting a sense of community ownership of the listed places, and a collective a. responsibility for their management. D STIRLING MUNICIPAL INVENTORY CQNSIDINE AND GRIFFITHS ARCHITECTS with DOROTHY ERICKSON u To ensure that the inventory is as complete as possible, within the modest resources available to the process, a brief historic overview was prepared by Associate Professor William Cooper and Gill McDonald. It was prepared from the research from a much larger project, which was the history of p the City of Stirling. From the overview a graphic summary, in the form of a thematic framework, ^ was developed to identify the main historic themes by the same authors. r The next task was to review this work and to commence the identification of site types that should p be sought to represent the themes and any relevant sub themes. L n While not guaranteeing that all important sites will be identified in this manner, the margin for error [_ is reduced. This list should not be regarded as the last word and, indeed, needs to be updated to coincide with reviews of the town planning scheme every five years. Heritage does not, after all, [j stop or start at a particular date and is a continuum. Thus a new development area can have as much as a role in the City's heritage as, say, Maylands or Mount Lawley. The Municipla Inventory has been prepared by the consultants in the early stages of the process i from existing sources such including: • The Heritage Council of Western Australia; • The National Trust of Australia; n • The Australian Heritage Commission; • City of Stirling Heritage Identification for Planning Management Areas; • The Western Australian Museum. This data was expanded, or modified, by the Municipal Inventory groups and steering committee. The data was further impacted upon by community consultation during the public comment time. p i Public nominations were called for and the modified list evaluated to make some determination of pj relative significance and suitable management strategies. The final list was them prepared for ^ consideration by Council, prior to its adoption and forwarding to the Heritage Council. n It is well worth quoting from the Act, the interpretation of the meaning of 'Place': "an area of land sufficiently definable by survey, description or otherwise as to be readily ascertainable, and u includes:- a) an area of land situated below low water mark on the sea shore or on the bank of tidal waters, or in the bed of any watercourse, lake or estuary; STIRLING MUNICIPAL INVENTORY CQNSIDINE AND GRIFFITHS ARCHITECTS with DOROTHY ERICKSON b) Any works or buildings situated there, their contents relevant to the purposes of the Act, and such of their immediate surroundings as may be required for the purposes of the conservation of those works or buildings; and c) As much of the land beneath the place is required for thew purposes of its conservation." In summary then , the Municpal Inventory is a list of places considered to be of cultural heritage value. The prime of this process is identification with logical consequence being the management of the places nominated according to their importance. 1.2 MANAGEMENT OF PLACES ON THE INVENTORY The City is currently formulating guidance on the management of places on the Inventory, in association with the Western Australian Municipal Association. This will endeavour to conserve places cultural heritage value, or values. The level of management should be related to the value of the place and should be seen as a guide to Council officers and property owners in dealing with properties, when development issues require decisions. In formulating the management of places thought may be given to how conservation may be encouraged in a positive way with owners of listed places.