Heritage News

Consultation Period Extended for the ACT Draft Planning Strategy.

Have your say on the ACT Planning Strategy, a document that will guide ACT planning and development over the next 30 years. The National Trust want to ensure our heritage sites will be preserved for future generations and feel this needs to be clearly definfined in the Strategy.

For more information follow the link:

http://timetotalk.act.gov.au/time-to-talk/planning/

Draft Variation 308 - Cooyong Street Urban Renewal Precinct

Draft Variation 308 has been released by the ACT Government for Public Comment. This Draft Variation regards areas in Braddon and Reid.To learn more and have your say by the 20th of February 2012 click here.

National Heritage at Risk List

The National Heritage at Risk list for 2011 was announced on the 28th of October. The list is as follows:

• Shores of Lake Burley Griffin, ACT
• Snake Creek Armament Depot, NT
• Historic Pubs of Victoria
• Coorong and Lower Murray Lakes. SA
• Declining Bird Populations of Mount Lofty Ranges, SA
• Hunter Valley Conservation Landscapes, NSW
• Ravenswood Community Church, QLD
• Burnie Paper Mill, Tas
• Places on the Regsiter of the National Estate, throughout Australia

For the more details click here or visit the website http://heritageatrisk.org.au and see below for the full ACT list.

National Trust ACT Heritage at Risk 2011

Our top Heritage at Risk Places are:

1. Lake Burley Griffin and Foreshores
2. The Register of the National Estate
3. Majura Valley
4. Reid Housing Precinct
5. Places without Fire Protection
6. Dickson/Lyneham Flats
7. Yarralumla Brickworks

For more information click here

 St Patrick's Church Braddon

The National Trust are pleased to see that St Patrick's Church, Braddon has, as of the 1st of December, been again Provisionally Listed to the ACT Heritage Register. We continue to support this nomination and would like to see it progress to full listing under the Heritage Act 2004.

On September 15th St Patrick's Church, Braddon was taken off the ACT Heritage Register due to a technicality in the listing process. The decision was reached as the result of an appeal lodged with the ACT Civil & Administrative Tribunal by the Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn.

For our comments to the Heritage Council in support of Provisional Listing click here.

ACT Heritage Listings

• Booroomba Station - incorporating Blythburn and Braeside and adjacent ploughlands
• Buildings of the former CS&IR Experiment Station, Downer
• St Ninian's Church - 19thC elements
• St Paul's Burial Ground, Evatt
• Campbell Housing Apartments
• Swinger Hill Cluster Housing, Phillip
• Gubur Dhaura - Aboriginal Ochre Quarry and Historic Mining Area

1 new site has been Provisionally Registered as of the 1st of December:

• St Patricks Church, Braddon

To have your say by the 4th of January click here

To see our comments on previous registrations and other ACT heritage issues see the Heritage Issues tab.

Northern Centenary Border Walks

Heritage Tour Launched

The Northern Centerary Border Walks brochure was launched by former ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope at our AGM on the 19th of October. The project was assisted through funding made availble by the ACT Government under the ACT Heritage Grants Program.

The brochure consists of 6 walks around parts of the ACT border which not only offer stunning views of the surrounding landscape but also offers insightful information about the creation of the Federal Capital such as why it is shaped the way it is, who surveyed the land and the problems that occured along the way.

The brochure is available online by clicking here or in hard copy at the National Trust Office located in Civic. Feel free to come in and take one and check out the many other free self-guided tours we have on offer.