CITY OF BOROONDARA MUNICIPAL-WIDE HERITAGE GAP STUDY Volume 1. Canterbury Adopted 26 November 2018 Prepared for the City of Boroondara Context Pty Ltd 2018 Project Team: Natica Schmeder, Associate Louise Honman, Director Catherine McLay, Consultant Evelina Ericsson, Consultant Vicki McLean, Consultant Bruce Trethowan, Trethowan Architecture Mark Stephenson, Trethowan Architecture Renee Muratore, Trethowan Architecture Sam Nichols, Trethowan Architecture Report Register This report register documents the development and issue of the report entitled City of Boroondara Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study: Vol. 1 Canterbury undertaken by Context Pty Ltd in accordance with our internal quality management system. Project Issue Notes/description Issue Date Issued to No. No. 2112 1 Background report, draft 4 November 2016 Rob Costello 2112 2 Full report, draft 21 November 2016 Rob Costello 2112 3 Final draft report 5 December 2016 Rob Costello 2112 4 Final draft report, revised 12 December 2016 Rob Costello 2112 5 Final report 23 January 2017 Rob Costello 2112 6 Revised report after 3 May 2017 Rob Costello community consultation 2112 7 Expanded report 25 May 2017 Rob Costello 2112 8 Report revised post C266 8 October 2018 Shiranthi Widan panel 2112 9 Adopted report 26 November 2018 Shiranthi Widan Context Pty Ltd 22 Merri Street, Brunswick VIC 3056 Phone 03 9380 6933 Facsimile 03 9380 4066 Email [email protected] Web www.contextpl.com.au ii CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY V Introduction v Key Findings v Recommendations v 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Background and brief 1 1.2 Study area 1 1.3 Previous heritage studies 2 1.4 Study limitations 3 2 APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY 4 2.1 Introduction 4 2.2 Inception 4 2.3 Stage 1 - Preliminary identification of places 4 2.3.1 Desktop and community identification of places 4 2.3.2 Preliminary survey 5 2.3.3 Preliminary assessment 6 2.3.4 Reporting preliminary recommendations 6 2.4 Stage 2 – Assessment and reporting 6 2.4.1 Locality and thematic histories 6 2.4.2 Place and precinct histories 6 2.4.3 Description 7 2.4.4 Comparative analysis 8 2.4.5 Assessment against criteria 8 2.4.6 Statement of significance 9 2.4.7 Gradings within precincts 9 2.4.8 Mapping and curtilages 10 2.4.9 Statutory recommendations 12 2.4.10 HERMES entry 12 2.5 Preliminary consultation 13 3 KEY FINDINGS 14 3.1 Local significance 14 3.1.1 Places 14 3.1.2 Precincts 14 3.2 Not of local significance 14 3.3 Council-managed places of potential significance 14 4 RECOMMENDATIONS 16 4.1 Introduction 16 4.2 Adoption of Heritage Review 16 4.3 Implementation of Heritage Review 16 APPENDIX A – ASSESSMENT FINDINGS 17 A.1 Places of local significance 17 A.2 Precincts of local significance 18 A.3 Not of local significance – no action 18 A.4 Council-managed places of potential significance 18 iii APPENDIX B – NON-CADASTRAL MAPPING 19 Electrical Distribution Substations 19 Canterbury Girls School 20 APPENDIX C – DRAFT HO SCHEDULE 22 APPENDIX D – PLACE AND PRECINCT CITATIONS 26 CANTERBURY ROAD COMMERCIAL PRECINCT 27 GRIFFIN ESTATE & ENVIRONS PRECINCT 41 140 CANTERBURY ROAD, CANTERBURY 71 MATLOCK STREET PRECINCT 81 35 MATLOCK STREET CANTERBURY 105 PARLINGTON ESTATE RESIDENTIAL PRECINCT 115 ROCHESTER ROAD PRECINCT 132 6 ALEXANDRA AVENUE, CANTERBURY 148 902A BURKE ROAD, CANTERBURY 159 61 CANTERBURY ROAD, CANTERBURY 177 146 CANTERBURY ROAD, CANTERBURY 186 351 – 359 CANTERBURY ROAD, CANTERBURY AND SURREY HILLS 201 35 CHATHAM ROAD, CANTERBURY 215 6 HARP ROAD, KEW; 26A MYRTLE ROAD, CANTERBURY; 190A CANTERBURY RD, CANTERBURY 226 13 MANGARRA ROAD, CANTERBURY 240 16 MANGARRA ROAD, CANTERBURY 248 23 MANGARRA ROAD, CANTERBURY 267 67 MONT ALBERT ROAD, CANTERBURY 276 25 SHIERLAW AVENUE & 1A FAVERSHAM ROAD, CANTERBURY 289 2 SNOWDEN PLACE, CANTERBURY 307 10 THE RIDGE, CANTERBURY 321 14 THE RIDGE, CANTERBURY 331 15 VIEW STREET, CANTERBURY 341 2B WARBURTON ROAD, CANTERBURY 349 37 WENTWORTH AVENUE, CANTERBURY 363 2 WOODSTOCK STREET & 33A PARLINGTON STREET, CANTERBURY 372 iv EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction The City of Boroondara contains an extensive range of heritage assets including Victorian, Federation, interwar and post-war dwellings, commercial buildings and precincts, and a range of public buildings and features such as bridges, railway stations, community buildings, churches, parks and gardens. Many of these places are of aesthetic, social, historic, cultural, technical or spiritual significance to the municipality. Around 10,000 properties throughout the municipality are already protected by the Heritage Overlay in the Boroondara Planning Scheme. Council adopted an updated Heritage Action Plan (HAP2016) on 2 May 2016. The HAP2016 sets out as a very high priority action the preparation of the Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study (MWHGS). The MWHGS involves the assessment of all properties outside the existing Heritage Overlay in Boroondara. Suburb assessments for Canterbury, Camberwell, Hawthorn and Kew will be undertaken in the 2016/17 financial year. Suburb assessments for Ashburton, Glen Iris, Hawthorn East, Kew East and Mont Albert are to be completed in the 2017/18 financial year. Note that Balwyn, Balwyn North, Deepdene and Surrey Hills are not included in the scope of the MWHGS as these suburbs have already been assessed. This report covers the suburb assessment for Canterbury. It includes an overview of the methodology, findings and recommendations, as well as citations for nominated individual properties and precincts. Key Findings The key findings of the ‘City of Boroondara Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study: Volume 1 Canterbury’ are: • There are 20 individual heritage places assessed to be of local significance. Among them there is one serial listing and two places that also contributes to a proposed precinct (see Appendix A.1). • There are five heritage precincts assessed to be of local significance (see Appendix A.2). • There are three individual places that were initially identified and subsequently researched but not recommended for the Heritage Overlay as they do not meet the threshold for local significance (Appendix A.3). Recommendations It is recommended that the Boroondara City Council: • Adopt the ‘City of Boroondara Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study: Volume 1. Canterbury’ (2018) and include it as a Reference Document in the Planning Scheme; • Implement the ‘City of Boroondara Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study: Volume 1. Canterbury’ (2018) by: o Adding the places assessed as being of local significance, listed in Appendix A.1, to the Heritage Overlay of the Boroondara Planning Scheme with the schedule entries shown in the place citations. o Adding the precincts assessed as being of local significance, listed in Appendix A.2, to the Heritage Overlay of the Boroondara Planning Scheme with the schedule entries shown in the precinct citations. The extent of registration is the whole of the precinct as shown on the precinct plans. The precinct plans identify Significant, Contributory and Non-contributory places within the precinct boundaries. v CITY OF BOROONDARA MUNICIPAL-WIDE HERITAGE GAP STUDY 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background and brief The City of Boroondara contains an extensive range of heritage assets including Victorian, Federation, interwar and post-war dwellings, commercial buildings and precincts, and a range of public buildings and features such as bridges, railway stations, community buildings, churches, parks and gardens. Many of these places are of aesthetic, social, historic, cultural, technical or spiritual significance to the municipality. The Planning and Environment Act 1987 places an obligation on municipal councils ‘to conserve and enhance those buildings, areas or other places which are of scientific, aesthetic, architectural or historical interest, or other of specific cultural value’. Consistent with this objective, the City of Boroondara has prepared numerous heritage studies that identify places of heritage significance. As a result of these studies, approximately 10,000 properties throughout the municipality are currently included in the Heritage Overlay to the Boroondara Planning Scheme, either as individually significant places or as part of larger heritage precincts. In the past few years, Council has commissioned further area studies of two entire suburbs – Balwyn (incorporating Balwyn North and Deepdene) and Surrey Hills – as well as studies of smaller areas and individual places. Council is currently progressing planning scheme amendments to introduce an additional 690 properties in the Heritage Overlay (C177 and C243). In addition, Council commissioned a Thematic Environmental History for the municipality, which was completed by heritage consultant Built Heritage in 2012. It provides a detailed overview of the history of Boroondara, illustrating how different themes have shaped the development of the City. The Thematic Environment History identifies buildings and features that relate to each theme and provides recommendations for future heritage investigations. Council adopted an updated Heritage Action Plan (HAP2016) on 2 May 2016. The HAP2016 sets out a very high priority action being the preparation of the Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study (MWHGS). The MWHGS involves the assessment of all properties outside the existing Heritage Overlay in Boroondara. The suburb assessments for Canterbury, Camberwell, Hawthorn and Kew will be undertaken in the 2016/17 financial year. The suburb assessments for Ashburton, Glen Iris, Hawthorn East, Kew East and Mont Albert are to be completed in the 2017/18 financial year. The