A contentious bid to impose heritage overlays on almost 900 homes in Melbourne’s inner-west, which would have banned the use of street-facing solar panels and family-home extensions, has been abandoned.
Maribyrnong City Council implemented an interim heritage overlay in December 2021 on hundreds of properties across eight precincts in West Footscray and surrounding areas to protect the outward appearance of interwar and postwar-period homes.Justin McManus
“Heritage overlays don’t really have an expiry date, and this overlay would have locked up almost 900 blocks of land – and these aren’t small blocks of land – pretty much forever, and precluded or certainly made it extremely difficult for that land to be changed or for the properties on that land to be developed,” he said.“That ranges from families who want to have more kids and want to add another bedroom, all the way up to the future, as Melbourne grows, potential densification of that area.
They were forced to abandon plans for a $60,000 one-bedroom extension to the front of their home and instead reorient their extension to the rear of their property. The precinct overlays were established after Maribyrnong council commissioned consultants at Heritage Alliance to recommend new planning controls to protect eight heritage precincts in West Footscray and surrounding parts of Footscray and Maidstone.
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