Moreland Planning Scheme Amendment C208more | Panel Report | 15 July 2022
Council added that the findings of:
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Stage 1 of the Lygon Street Heritage Study influenced the drafting of the Brunswick
Structure Plan by recognising the preliminary identification of potential heritage places
and precincts
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Stage 2 Lygon Street Heritage Study and heritage assets had been identified at the time
of Amendment C134more (which introduced DDO19) and influenced changes to the
DDOs through the Amendment C134more process.
Dr Roberts gave evidence for Council, through an approach she described as a “peer review”.
Dr Roberts compared 151A Lygon Street to a number of properties including:
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25 Daley Street (a contributory building in a precinct) which she considered stylistically
similar but less intact. She considered 151A Lygon Street is a more ‘bold’ example.
136A Nicholson Street which contains some Art Deco elements that have been
overpainted. It illustrates the influence of the Art Deco style in its original signage but
otherwise is better associated with the Streamlined Moderne style. It is a less resolute
example of the Art Deco style and, with its overpainted brick work (reversible but visually
obtrusive), it is in a less original state than the subject shop at 151A Lygon Street,
Brunswick East.
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129 Lygon Street, Brunswick East (a contributory building in a precinct) has an original
shop front, but the cantilevered verandah has been removed. The design of the parapet
and the façade is more conventional and has been overpainted. 151A Lygon Street,
Brunswick East is superior in design execution and intactness.
153 Reynard Street is less intact. The former HPL Morris Chemist at 153 Reynard Street,
Coburg was designed in 1936 by architects Carleton & Carleton. The shop is notable for
its high design quality and its intactness. The subject site at 151A Lygon Street, Brunswick
East, compares well with this place as an intact exemplar of an interwar shop which
displays alternative and less conventional stylistic influences.
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228 Melville Street (individually significant) is stylistically different. She considered, 151A
Lygon Street superior in its design.
In her evidence, Dr Roberts highlighted that the place citation clearly associates the property with
the Moreland Thematic History 2010 Theme 9 ‘Shopping and retailing in Moreland’ which states:
Shopping is a necessary part of the daily life of a community and shops give their customers
a sense of continuity and tradition. They are a very visible attribute of Moreland’s
streetscapes, particularly the major thoroughfares of Sydney Road and Lygon Street. The
municipality has a proud and colourful retail heritage that spans from the earliest days of
settlement – from small stores to specialist shops, banks, markets, emporiums, and
shopping malls and plazas. All of these retail outlets have grown to meet and create
shoppers’ needs and are a significant part of Moreland’s history and heritage, lending
character and distinctiveness to its streets (Historica 2010:97).
The historic shops built during Moreland’s periods of economic prosperity in the late
nineteenth century and 1920s and 1930s continue to line the Sydney Road corridor, with
many facades still intact. More intact shops stand on street corners tucked away from main
thoroughfares, providing clues to former centres of high activity, such as brickyards and
other industries that once sustained them. There is also the occasional corner milk bar, a
fading phenomenon of the 1950s and earlier, some still with original shop windows, doors
and vestiges of original signage (Historica 2010:30).
Dr Roberts considered the attributes of 151A Lygon Street as a shop, noting its parapet and
brickwork are notable, and concluding it is a “good example” and “unusual” including a number of
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