Thousands of homes across Sydney are on hit lists of buildings that local councils consider ripe for redevelopment – or bulldozing.
The heritage value of parts of Sydney have been in the spotlight as the Minns government attempts to bed down its plans to increase housing density to address the housing crisis. A City of Sydney spokeswoman said detracting buildings are not in keeping with the heritage significance of their surrounds but did not necessarily need to be knocked down.Mosman Council has 51 detracting buildings out of 1369 properties in heritage areas. The council’s planning rules encourage the ultimate replacement of a detracting building with one deemed to be “less assertive” or for sympathetic alterations during redevelopment.
Bayside Council has identified 40 buildings in the Botany Township - one of its two HCAs - as “uncharacteristic”, which includes new housing, residential flats and large multi-storey commercial buildings. The council plans to identify “uncharacteristic” buildings in four new heritage areas, a spokeswoman said.
There are no heritage conservation areas in councils such as Blacktown, Fairfield and the Sutherland Shire. Hornsby, Ku-ring-gai, Waverley and Willoughby councils do not classify buildings in heritage areas. “Heritage and new housing can coexist,” he said. “However, new heritage listings must not be used to avoid delivering new homes.”
Gerard Reinmuth, founding director of architectural practice TERROIR, said the council’s classification of buildings came out of a tradition of heritage assessment “we now need to challenge” and that buildings should be inventively re-used where possible – not bulldozed.“The cities that we value for their beauty and where we take overseas holidays are the result of the accrual of different buildings over time, the result of which is a rich and picturesque townscape,” he said.
“The point of the designation is that in planning terms demolition of such a place will not harm the established heritage values, and so change is easier to justify for those properties than for the properties recognised as contributory or neutral,” he said.
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