Municipal Heritage Review – Area 4 and other places

Image: Inside the Red Hill Pavilion at the showgrounds
Credit: RBA Architects + Conservation Consultants, 2020

The project is about protecting places of heritage significance on the Mornington Peninsula by:

• identifying places that should be protected under the Heritage Overlay of the Mornington Peninsula Planning Scheme
• preparing written citations for each place that accurately capture and explain their heritage significance
• revising the heritage mapping of two places that are already covered by the Heritage Overlay.

What land is affected by the project?

The project comprises three parts.

Part 1 – Places in Western Port and Hinterland region of the Peninsula

Part 1 affects land in the Western Port and Hinterland region of the Peninsula shown as Area 4 on the map below.

This area forms part of the Shire’s wider Municipal Heritage Review, which is a staged review of heritage places across the Peninsula that has been underway for the past 10 years. Reviews for Areas 1, 2 and 3 have already been completed with the Heritage Overlay having since been applied to many properties.

We commissioned RBA Architects & Conservation Consultants to undertake the Area 4 review.

Part 2 – Places in Flinders, Merricks Beach, Mornington, Mount Eliza, Mount Martha, Portsea, Shoreham, Somers and Sorrento

Part 2 is a review of several places in Flinders, Merricks Beach, Mornington, Mount Eliza, Mount Martha, Portsea, Shoreham, Somers and Sorrento that have previously been identified as having potential heritage significance but were not assessed in earlier heritage studies.

We commissioned heritage ALLIANCE to review these additional properties.

Part 3 – Places in Rosebud, Somers and Somerville

Part 3 comprises:

• assessment and preparation of heritage citations for the Cairns Family Cemetery at 352 Boneo Road, Boneo, and the Boyd House at 62 Rosebud Parade, Rosebud
• refined mapping of the following heritage places, which are already covered by the Heritage Overlay:
  • HO227, which applies to the Hope Campbell House at 1 Sandy Point Road, Somers
  • HO311, which applies to the John Brunning & Sons Complex, Trees at 48 ONeills Road, Somerville.

We commissioned Landmark Heritage to undertake this part of the project.

Why is the project required?

This project is needed to help us recognise and conserve places of heritage significance on the Peninsula as required by the Planning and Environment Act 1987.

Once the project is completed, the final heritage citations for each place will be used by Council to update the Mornington Peninsula Planning Scheme to ensure these places are protected from inappropriate development under the Heritage Overlay.

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