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Direction 8 A Centre Proud of its Heritage and Culture
Direction 8
A Centre Proud of its Heritage and Culture
Buildings and places of historical significance will continue to tell the story of our past. Buildings and spaces will be investigated, restored and protected to achieve an appropriate balance between preservation and sympathetic alterations and additions.
Campsie’s multicultural identity will continue to be supported and celebrated. Areas of special character, such as Beamish Street, will be protected and enhanced through built form controls that retain its fine grain historic character and mix of retail uses.
What do we know?
· Campsie is located on the land of the Darug (sometimes spelt Dharug, Dharuk or Daruk) tribe or language group. · Council’s vision for reconciliation is “To create a strong, harmonious and richer community by encouraging our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents to share their heritage and culture with people from other cultures to ensure all of our different traditions, customs and stories are valued - Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan June 2020 - June 2022”. · The City centre is home to a diverse range of heritage items and areas of special character. · Heritage and historic character can be lost through urban development and requires planning interventions for its protection. What are we proposing?
Heritage is integral to Campsie’s identity and the connection of people to place. This includes both physical heritage and intangible aspects of heritage such as social heritage, memories and rituals. History told through buildings, spaces, artwork and signage helps to tell the story of Campsie.
The Master Plan will ensure that the distinctive history of the city is celebrated while it experiences growth and change. This includes embracing Aboriginal and shared history.
Planning controls and public realm improvements will work hand-in-hand to showcase Campsie of the past, present and future. We will conserve heritage items and areas. Alterations and additions to heritage items will complement and not detract from the heritage significance. New development will complement existing heritage items and conservation areas in a modern context.
Campsie will maintain and respect its unique heritage and culture. Local Aboriginal culture and heritage will be celebrated in the public and private domain and weaved into contemporary development through planning controls and supporting policies.
Objective 8.1
Local Aboriginal heritage culture is valued and celebrated
Council will work with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community to celebrate important occasions and events as well as pass on the knowledge of Aboriginal history and culture to new generations.
The Master Plan will use art and place naming as a means of sharing Aboriginal history and culture. The centre will host permanent installations of artwork and signage reflecting aboriginal heritage themes, values and stories suitable for interpretation. There is also opportunity for temporary celebrations of Aboriginal art and heritage through changes to hoarding policies to make hoardings more dynamic whilst telling the story of our Aboriginal past.
All installations of Aboriginal artwork must be developed in cooperation with the local Aboriginal community and, where appropriate, should be led by an Aboriginal organisation or business. Where artists are engaged to prepare or design interpretation they should be from an Aboriginal background, and preferably have a traditional connection to the area.
Council will choose appropriate Aboriginal words when naming future developments, to reflect the Traditional Custodians and Aboriginal heritage of the area. Areas that may be appropriate for future naming include the Campsie Civic and Cultural Hub and unnamed open spaces along the Cooks River. Council’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Reference Group would oversee and guide such process. Actions
8.1.1 Collaborate with the local Aboriginal community to develop artworks that can be used on construction hoardings. 8.1.2 In collaboration with local Aboriginal Communities, consider opportunities for the naming of new open spaces, public places or through-site links. 8.1.3 Significant development should integrate Aboriginal Art and/ or story telling. This should be considered as part of the Development Control Plan controls for Campsie Town Centre.
Objective 8.2
Heritage buildings, spaces and streets are protected and honoured as part of the City’s historical identity
The Master Plan will protect and interpret European heritage in Campsie Town Centre to help tell the story of the city. Development controls will require preservation and sympathetic restorations to heritage and period facades whilst allowing appropriate built form transitions, interplay and separation of new development to heritage buildings and conservation areas.
Campsie Town Centre has a diverse range of heritage items, which date from the 1900’s to the 1950’s. These places both within the Campsie core and surrounding residential areas stand alongside more modern sites to create a unique cityscape. Maintaining these sites is an important part of the centres future character.
This Master Plan recommends a number of items for consideration as part of a forthcoming city-wide review of heritage. The following Items and areas are considered worthy of investigation for heritage listing under the Local Environmental Plan. These items were determined based on a review of previously identified items for investigation and a number of site visits to validate this material. This work will inform a city-wide heritage review.
Detailed Master Planning of the Civic Centre site will include adaptive reuse of the Orion Centre. A broader review of heritage in this precinct will be undertaken as part of a sitespecific master plan, in the context of a broader, comprehensive redevelopment of Council’s facilities, community and cultural infrastructure, open space and development in this precinct. Actions
8.2.1 Investigate the items identified for potential heritage value for listing as part of the City-wide heritage review.
8.2.2 Investigate a Heritage Conservation Area over Alma Avenue as part of the City-wide heritage review.
8.2.3 Review and amend current Development Control Plan controls to ensure appropriate adaptive reuse and restoration of heritage items and period buildings in heritage conservation areas as part of new development. 8.2.4 Review and amend current Local Environment Plan and Development Control Plan controls to ensure appropriately scaled and designed development can occur within and adjacent to heritage items and conservation areas in Campsie Town Centre, including to the proposed heritage conservation area on Alma Avenue. 8.2.5 Adaptive reuse of the Orion Centre and further analysis of heritage within the Civic Centre precinct to be considered as part of a site-specific Master Plan.
Proposed Heritage Map
Existing public open spaces Existing heritage Item (CLEP 2012) Properties being investigated for heritage significance Area being investigated for heritage significance
Area subject to detailed master planning including heritage assessment 1:10,000 (A3) 0 100m 200m
Proposed items for heritage investigation
Recommended Item 1: Federation Queen Anne house
Address: 69 Anglo Road, Campsie
Description: This house is on a prominent corner position. It is well-maintained and presents well to the street from Anglo Road. Major intrusive alterations which are visible from the streetscape along Carrington Square.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative. Recommended Item 2: Interwar commercial building Recommended Item 3: Campsie Hotel Recommended Item 4: Christadelphian Church
Address: 257 Beamish Street, Campsie
Description: A two storey Inter-War Art Deco commercial building constructed c.1930. The facade is an excellent example in the context of the local area, of Art Deco style in a simple shop building. The facade is rendered with moulded detail in geometric patterns, and a strongly emphasised central finial and stepped parapet. The facade is quite intact above awning level, however, the colour is not entirely sympathetic.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative Address: 327-329 Beamish Street, Campsie
Description: A three-storey Inter-War Georgian Revival Hotel constructed in 1927, the building is a three storey Inter-War Hotel, the first hotel constructed in the Campsie area.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Social, Representative Address: 404 Beamish Street, Campsie
Description: Constructed in 1936 this simple, representative example of an Inter-War church building, is of historic and social significance in relation to the activities of the local Congregational Church, and later, the Christadelphians
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic , Aesthetic, Representative.
Recommended Item 6: Inter-War picture theatre ‘Windsor Theatre’ (former) Recommended Item 7: Electricity Substation No.177
Address: 225-229 Canterbury Road, Campsie
Description: A prominent building on Canterbury Road, still discernible as a former 1930s theatre building, consistent with the style of the time. It is likely the site has social significance deriving from its use as an entertainment venue, and its association now with the Mytilenian Brotherhood
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Social, Representative Address: 428 Canterbury Road, Campsie
Description: Constructed in c.1927, the substation is a rare example of a well designed and detailed Inter-war purposed designed and built substation. It is typical of the small scale distribution substations constructed by the Municipal Council of Sydney during the roll-out of electricity to suburban areas in the 1920s and 1930s.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Rare, Representative Recommended Item 8: Campsie Public School
Address: 3 Harold Street, Campsie
Description: A group of school buildings constructed between 1908 and 1919. The buildings are highly intact, and representative examples of their period. The school is illustrative of the growth of the community during these years. The school has social significance for the local community.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative Recommended Area 8: Former St John’s Church of England
Address: 26 Anglo Road, Campsie
Description: Constructed in c.1911 and rebuilt and extended in 1929 following its destruction by fire, this Federation period church set in a prominent position within Anzac Square. The church is a highly intact example of an Federation period church. Landscape has been somewhat altered and paved.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Social, Representative.
Proposed items for heritage investigation
Recommended Item 9: St Mel’s Catholic Church and School
Address: 7 Evaline Street and school site, Campsie
Description: This item involves the extension of the existing heritage curtilage of St Mel’s Catholic Church and Presbytery (No. I54) to include buildings associated with St Mel’s Catholic School (former St Anthony’s Canterbury). Together these buildings are a group of highly intact Inter-War Church and School buildings constructed between 1915 and 1927. The main southern building located within the School grounds is the oldest school building and is recommended for inclusion in this listing.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Social ,Representative. Recommended Item 10: St Phillip’s Uniting Church Campsie Recommended Item 11: Rudd Park Gates Recommended Item 12: Inter-War Californian Bungalow
Address: 36 Evaline Street, Campsie
Description: A Federation period Gothic style church set in a prominent position on Evaline Street. Repainted to a new colour scheme which is not sympathetic to the heritage values of the site. Otherwise the building is a highly intact example of a Federation period church although the landscape has been somewhat altered and paved.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Social, Representative Address: Corner of Clarence Street and Varidel Avenue, Belfield
Description: Rudd Park was officially opened in 1941 by Mrs Rudd, wife of Alderman J.R Rudd at the entrance gates along Clarence Street. These gates are significant as a prominent and intact original built features that remains within this landscape. The gates have been well-maintained and are of historic and aesthetic significance at the local level.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative. Address: 66 Wonga Street, Canterbury
Description: A rather large Inter-War Californian bungalow constructed c.19151930. An intact and very well-maintained example of this architectural style in the Canterbury area. This style of housing is underrepresented within the Canterbury area. The house has been somewhat modified, however, any modifications are minor and sympathetic to the heritage values of the house.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Social, Representative.
Address: 303-305 Canterbury Road, Canterbury
Description: Formerly functioned as a Methodist church and now as the Uniting Church Fiji Parish. The church was constructed in 1927 to replace adjacent stone church (listed as item I71). It is recommended that this current listing for the Methodist Stone Church at 301-301A Canterbury Road be updated to include the Inter-War period church at 303-305 Canterbury Road within its curtilage.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Social, Representative Recommended Item 14: Campsie Street Heritage Conservation Area
Address: Western end of Campsie Street and lots fronting Lincoln Street
Description: Inter-War housing group. Single storey Californian Bungalows. Low scale streetscape with low fences, moderate setbacks and similar double fronted facades. Face brick or rendered brick construction.
The Heritage Conversation Area includes a 4 dwellings for individual heritage listing. No. 9, 10, 12, 14 Alma Avenue were constructed in 1938, these Inter-War bungalows are of local significance as they reflect the development pattern and configuration of Campsie in the late 1930s when the growth of the area was rapidly increasing. These dwellings are also substantially intact representative examples of InterWar bungalows demonstrating high quality brickwork and architectural detailing that are typical characteristics of the style. Their contribution to the streetscape is significant.
Significance Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative
Proposed items for heritage investigation
Recommended Item 15: Weatherboard Cottage
Address: 2 Burns Street, Campsie
Description: Federation weatherboard house with some alterations, constructed c.1915. Building has undergone some modifications (original verandah roof has been replaced with skillion roof). It has double-hung sash windows and a hipped roof with corrugated iron roofing.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative Recommended Item 16: ‘Oakhurst’ and ‘Samaria’ Federation Cottages Recommended Item 17: Federation Semi-detached House Recommended Item 18: ‘The Shak’ Inter-War Bungalow
Address: 85 and 89 Frederick Street, Campsie
Description: Both houses at 85 & 89 Frederick Street, Campsie were built at the end of 1914 and they illustrate the residential development of Campsie in the early twentieth century. They are representative examples of highly intact vernacular bungalow style residential buildings built at the transition period from Federation style to Inter-War style.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative Address: 10 and 12 Claremont Street, Campsie
Description: Constructed in 1914 these semidetached houses are of local significance as reasonably intact representative examples of late Federation semi-detached modest houses of the time which were speculatively built throughout the then Canterbury Municipality.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative Address: 14 Tudor Street, Campsie
Description: Constructed c.1927, this substantially intact Inter-War house is of local significance for its ability to help illustrate the development of Campsie in the late 1920s when the area was growing rapidly, and for its aesthetic quality, demonstrating the typical characteristics of Inter-War houses. It contributes significantly to the streetscape character of Tudor Street and is a representative example of Inter-War California Bungalow style houses that were built throughout the LGA during the 1920s and 1930s.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative
Recommended Item 19: Federation Weatherboard House Recommended Item 20: Victorian railway bridge
Address: 35 Baltimore Street, Belfield
Description: Constructed in 1914 this late Federation weatherboard house is of local significance as it helps illustrate the development of Belfield from the early 1900s, a time which was characterised by working men’s cottages, and later war service homes. It is also of local significance for its aesthetic quality that contributes to the streetscape, and as a representative example of late Federation weatherboard houses of the time. Most alterations are reversible including the enclosing of the verandah. Roof tiles are not sympathetic.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative Address: Cooks River near Broughton Street and Charles street underpass, Canterbury
Description: At the Cooks River railway crossing two separate bridges run side by side. Both bridges are within the heritage curtilage shown on the LEP heritage map, but only one is referred in the LEP Heritage Schedule (Federation Railway Bridge – which serves the freight line and is the northern bridge). This listing is to include the Victorian railway bridge.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative Recommended Item 21: ‘Allawah’ Inter-War Bungalow
Address: 38 Albert Street, Campsie
Description: Constructed c.1928, this substantially intact Inter-War house is of local significance for its ability to illustrate the development pattern and configuration of the area especially in association with the construction of the Goods Railway Line in the early 1900s, and for its historic association with George Thomas Davies as his own residence. It is also of significance as a representative example of an Inter-War bungalow, built throughout the Municipality during the 1920s and 1930s.
Significance: Local
Significance Criteria: Historic, Aesthetic, Representative
Objective 8.3
Campsie’s multicultural identity is celebrated throughout the centre.
As a source of identity, cultural expression is a valuable factor for empowering local communities and enabling groups to participate fully in social and cultural life. The identity of Campsie has evolved over the years.
Today, the centre is a cultural and linguistic mosaic with more than half of the community born overseas and a strong Chinese community. This cultural diversity is reflected in the eclectic mix of shops, restaurants and services along Beamish Street. The local community use city spaces daily to meet with others to play board games, dine and exercise.
The Master Plan will support the unique cultural identity of Campsie through public artwork, activities and festivals. Community identity will be showcased along Beamish Street and its surrounds. Actions
8.3.1 Commission, and require through development approval, curated and integrated public art that help to tell the story and express the identity of Campsie, and specific to particular sites within Campsie. 8.3.2 Require art installations on construction hoardings in the city centre that are of relevance to the subject site or surrounding area and community. This should focus on Aboriginal or multicultural artwork or photography developed in collaboration with local Aboriginal or multicultural communities.
8.3.3 Continue to host and support cultural festivals and activities in the City’s public and private domains
