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Perth Now
07-08-2025
- General
- Perth Now
Why this WA property is set to be removed from heritage list
A property on The Strand in Dianella may be removed from the City of Stirling's Heritage List. The city's planning and development's committee has backed an officer's recommendation to endorse the removal of the former child health centre and to install a heritage plaque. A review of properties owned by the city said the site was 'not achieving its potential to meet the city's objectives' but provided 'valuable opportunity for future redevelopment'. 'The site, currently zoned civic, is no longer required for its original purpose and offers limited functionality due to the age and condition of existing structures,' it said. 'While alternative uses have been considered, the size of the building and its location on the lot constrain redevelopment options and limit its suitability for different types of development.' A former child health care centre may be removed from a council's heritage list. Credit: Oceanside Glass and Aluminium A council report said repurposing the site for a contemporary land use was the most 'strategic and rational' approach. 'This approach necessitates the demolition of the existing structure to enable the city to advance planning processes related to the potential subdivision and/or redevelopment of the site,' it said. The site was previously a child health centre used by Child and Adolescent Health Service under a lease agreement with the city. Its single-storey building has been vacant since April. The building style was described as 'Post-War International Style', with face brick, coloured panels, and a low-pitched skillion roof which was restored in March 2023. The site was considered a place of cultural heritage significance and protected by the city's Heritage List. Its proposed removal was advertised to landowners within 200m of the site, which included those in the City of Bayswater. No responses were received. A formal decision on the committees recommendation is expected to the made by next week.
Perth Now
06-08-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
$39M arts centre in western suburbs to be approved
Christ Church Grammar School's revised plans for a lavish three-storey performing arts centre on the banks of the Swan River have received backing from the Town of Claremont. The new centre, named PERFORM, is expected to cost the school $39.2 million and feature a 470-seat auditorium, a 220-seat black box theatre with retractable seating, an ensemble room, an orchestral rehearsal room and a terrace, all with sweeping river views. The proposed centre will also have music classrooms, a percussion studio, a green room, a costume design room and a recording studio. Although the school had previously stated a new performing arts centre would be available for community use outside school hours, the current application indicates its intention that it will not be leased to groups outside the school community. Concept images for the proposed 470-seat auditorium. Credit: Supplied The development application for the centre will be considered by the Metro Inner Development Assessment Panel on Thursday, August 14, where the town has recommended it be approved. In 2022, State planning officials approved a $29 million four-storey 480-seat performing arts centre at a similar location on the school campus, but rising construction costs have since made the design plan 'unfeasible' and it has not proceeded. Existing buildings — including the school's music classrooms, chaplain's residence, and preparatory school — will be demolished to make way for the new centre, which the school says is required as the current teaching and performance spaces are 'no longer meeting the school's developing curriculum and requirements'. Although parts of the school are on the Town of Claremont's Heritage List, the buildings proposed for demolition are not heritage-listed. Concept images of the proposed 220-seat Black Box theatre at Christ Church Grammar School. Credit: Supplied Seven non-heritage listed trees will be chopped down for the centre, while new shrubs, grassed turf and other landscaping elements will be planted. Established in 1910, Christ Church Grammar School is an elite all-boys Anglican day and boarding school in Claremont, with students from pre-kindergarten to Year 12. The school has about 1700 students enrolled each year and employs around 200 staff members. The performing arts centre is set to be built on the banks of the Swan River in Claremont. Credit: Supplied CCGS says this will be the biggest building investment it has ever made and expects it to be the cultural centre of the school, which prides itself on its arts program. 'PERFORM lays a vital foundation for lifelong success by cultivating confidence, communication, critical thinking, and creativity — skills that seamlessly translate from the classroom to the boardroom, the workplace, and every aspect of life,' the school said. 'It is a place dedicated to building the inner man, supporting health and wellbeing, fostering 21st century skills, and providing a home for the Centre for Ethics and the performing arts.' If approved, the school expects demolition and construction to begin in 2026, with completion scheduled for December 2027.
India Today
06-08-2025
- Politics
- India Today
State government says fresh proposal needed to put Savarkar Sadan on heritage list
The Maharashtra government has informed the Bombay High Court that it will need a new proposal from the Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC) of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to include the Savarkar Sadan, located in Mumbai, in the Heritage Sadan, the erstwhile residence of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, served as the venue for meetings but has been in a derelict state and needs much repair. It was being said that the building might be pulled down to give way to a new construction. However, this was opposed by followers of affidavit filed through Additional Government Pleader (AGP) Prachi Tatake, representing the state government, stated that there was a proposal for including Savarkar Sadan in the Heritage List, and it had been considered as well, where the Urban Development Department recommended the government to declare the building as a Grade-IIA structure after following due process in 2009 itself. The affidavit filed by Deputy Director of Town Planning, Lalit Khobragade, said that, "The contribution by Swatantraveer Shri Vinayak Damodar Savarkar is held in high esteem and with a sense of pride by all the departments of the State Government and that this Respondent will take all necessary and effective steps as are required to deal with the subject of the present Petition with utmost responsibility and while following due process of law."There was much correspondence between various departments of the government on the issue, but all that was lost in June 2012, when a huge fire erupted in Mantralaya, which led to extensive damage to the building and the loss of important government records, including files related to this the Maharashtra government will need a fresh proposal, about which the BMC Commissioner was informed on July 9, stated the affidavit filed by Oorja Dhond, appearing for the BMC, said that the MHCC held a meeting on July 22 and has decided to send a proposal to the Maharashtra government for the same at the this was opposed by petitioner Pankaj Kumudchandra Phadnis, who is founder-president of an organisation called Abhinav Bharat Congress. The petitioner, an ardent follower and researcher of Savarkar, in his petition seeking Heritage status for the Savarkar Sadan, had sought that the state frame a special policy for compensating the living heirs of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar before including the Savarkar Sadan in the Heritage list or before declaring it as a Monument of National insisted that the state decide the issue based on the 2010 proposal of the MHCC. However, in court, a builder to whom half the property of Savarkar Sadan has been sold by Savarkar's heirs has also approached the court, as they want to be heard before any such order is passed by the state giving Heritage status to the bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep Marne directed Phadnis to respond in an affidavit and will be hearing the issue in three weeks.- Ends
