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HHT June 2025 Jounal

This edition introduces our Incoming President and has updates on Planning & Development and News updates.  On pages 3-6 we feature another special  ‘Hunters Hill Modern’ supplement with a focus on Harry Seidler.

• A Message from our departing and incoming President
• The Trust’s Members Evening & AGM held on 29 May 2025
• Update on Planning & Development:
  • Gladesville Shopping Village
  • Local Environmental Plan
  • Woolwich Marina Extension
  • Development at Hunters Hill Village
• Hunters Hill Modern – Focus on Harry Seidler
• News Update:
  • GIPA (Freedom of Information) Requests for:
    • Boronia Park Sports & Community Facility
    • Figtree Park
• Update on 16C Vernon Street
• Update on Trees
• Gladesville Reserve

Vol 62. No.2 December 2024

This edition covers the Trust’s Christmas Party 2024, a Vale for Alice Arnott Oppen OAM, and Updates on the Sale of Public Assets and Planning and Development.

• From the President’s Desktop
• The Trust Christmas Party 2024
• News Update
  • Vale Alice Arnott Oppen OAM
  • Local Environmental Plan
  • Urban Forest Strategy
• Update on The Sale of Public Assets:
  • 16C Vernon Street
  • C.A. Fairland Hall
  • Gladesville Masterplan
  • Boronia Park
• Hunters Hill Modern – 16 Barons Crescent
• Update on Development & Planning
• Woolwich Marina
• Tree Loss
• ‘Miranda’ 39 Alexandra Street

Vol 62. No. 1  June 2024 

This edition covers the proposed housing reforms and our update on trees and the latest news.   Pages 3-6 are a special supplement featuring another two modernist mid-century homes built by notable architects, to add to the ‘register’ of these important local houses.

• From the President’s Desktop
• How is ‘Heritage’ assessed?
• NSW Housing Reforms
• Hunters Hill Modern
  • 30 Woolwich Road
  • 12 Ellesmere Avenue
• Update on Trees:
  • HHC Urban Forest Strategy
  • Significant Tree Register
  • Goat Paddock
• News Update
  • Figtree Park
  • Henley Precinct Plan Submission for Draft Henley Precinct Masterplan 010624.doc
  • Woolwich Marina Expansion
  • The Long Running Sage of Boronia Park
  • Remnant Land at Joubert Street Road Reserve

Vol 61. No. 2 December 2023

This edition covers heritage conservation areas and our precious green environment:

• From the President’s Desktop
• Do Conservation Areas Offer Adequate Protection?
• Update on Trees:

1. • Council’s Tree Policy
   • Significant Tree Register
   • Street Tree Audit
   • Loss of Trees

• Latest News:
  • Electronic Billboard at the Church Street Overpass
  • Boronia Park Sports & Community Facility
  • Woolwich Marina Expansion
  • Montefiore Proposed Development

Vol 61, No. 1 July 2023

Vol 60, No. 2 December 2022

Vol 60, No 1. July 2022

Featuring the continued loss of our urban trees and the changing face of our municipality as our 20th century homes become increasingly under threat.  Page 3 & 4 is a special supplement featuring two modernist mid-century homes built by notable architects.  We hope to continue this feature in future journals, so that it can become a ‘register’ to ensure these important local houses are recognised and preserved.

• From the President’s Desktop
• Some of the homes we’ve lost and our changing streetscape
• Hunters Hill Modern
• The continuing loss of our trees
• Powerhouse update
• Don’t Block the Rocks Central Barangaroo Concept Plan development proposal (see HHT Submission here)
• Vale Tony Coote

Vol 59, No 2. November 2021

This issue features the local Council Elections and explains what’s at stake.  It contains information on four major issues during this Council’s term of office and the voting records of the existing Councillors.  It also explains how to find ‘How to Vote’ cards in order to check where the newly-formed ‘Independent’ parties are allocating their preferences.

Vol 59, No 1. June 2021

• From the President’s Desk – Alister Sharp
  • The saving of our heritage sandstone kerbs
  • Inappropriate concrete seating
  • Figtree Park Public Spaces Legacy Program
  • Boronia Park
• The Battle for Kelly’s Bush – onsite celebration
• What’s happening at Figtree Park
  
  • What the community wants
• Update on the Property Strategy 2021 (Draft Community Infrastructure Plan) after Council’s meeting of 26 April
• The cautionary tale of 61 Downing Place
• A celebration of Tony Coote’s 50 years’ dedication to the heritage of Hunters Hill
• Review of the Heritage Act 1977

Vol 58, No 2, December 2020

As it is such an important new proposal, we have devoted this month’s Journal to providing information for members and the local community about the Draft Community Infrastructure Plan 2020 proposed by Council, which contains their ‘blueprint’ for our municipality for the next 10 years.

• From the President’s Desk –  with a summary of the major issues
• The developments planned for the following locations:
  • Gladesville Road/Figtree Park
  • Town Hall, Council Administration Centre and Works Depot
  • Henley Precinct
  • Gladesville Commercial Centre
  • Special/Sole Purpose Facilities/Remnant Land
• Our members’ views on the above proposals
• The question of the $250m Public Spaces Legacy Program

Vol 58, No 1, June 2020

• From the President’s Desk – Alister Sharp
  • Boronia Park Plan of Management
  • Revised Plan of Management for Riverglade Reserve
  • Council Matters
  • Oversight of Development Applications
• Final Plan of Management for Boronia Park
• The 1919 Influenza Epidemic in Sydney
• DA Updates
  • The Lost & Found Department – 39 Alexandra St
  • ‘Windemere’ – 25 Ernest St
  • 61 Downing Place
  • Loss of Sandstone Kerbs
• Vale Jack Mundey
• AGM Report

Vol 57, No 2, December 2019

• From the President’s Desk – Alister Sharp
  • The updated ‘Green Book’
  • New Plans of Management
  • An update on the Plan of Management
• DA Updates
  • 1 & 3 Ryde Road
  • The Lost & Found Department – 39 Alexandria St
  • The Sorry Saga of ‘Windemere’ – 25 Ernest St
• Every picture tells a story
• Christmas Party & Book Launch
• “St Malo Trees for Mousetraps”

Vol 57, No 1, June 2019

• From the President’s Desk – Alister Sharp
  • AGM Report
  • Membership
  • Interaction with Council
  • Walks & Events 2018 -2019
• How Our Garden Suburb is Changing
• The Farm Attendant’s Cottage – Waruda
• DA Updates
  • New Sports Complex St Joseph’s College
  • St Peter Chanel
  • 1 & 3 Ryde Road
• Dismantling of the Office of Environment and Heritage
• Heritage-Listed Boronia Park
• Green Book Update

Vol 56, No 2, December 2018

• Update on the destruction of Thompson Square
• From the President’s desk, Alister Sharp
• Planning and Protection
• New Sports Complex, St Joseph’s College
• St Peter Chanel
• New Art Gallery
• Vale to two prominent Hunters Hill identities
• Green Book update
• Powerhouse Museum
• 1 and 3 Ryde Road

Vol 56, No 1. May 2018

• From the President’s desktop, Alister Sharp
• Latest news on St Peter Chanel DA
• New Local Planning Panels, Tony Coote
• Save the Powerhouse
• Fred Stamp (1926-2018)
• Cultural heritage lottery, David Throsby
• Mysterious George Hedgeland, Beverley Sherry
• Battle to save Thompson Square, Windsor.

Vol 55, No 2, December 2017

• The new Hunters Hill Council
• Independent Hearing and Assessment Panels (IHAPs)
• 11 Mark Street
• Figtree Chapel Relocation
• Green Book Update
• Cycling and Heritage:  Do they go together?
• 18 Richmond Crescent
• Walks and Events
• Boronia Park Update
• Christmas Party
• From the Archives:  1997

Vol 55, No 1, July 2017

• Boronia Park and Gladesville Shopping Village
• Amalgamation update
• The Trust’s meeting with Anthony Roberts, Minister for Planning, Minister for Housing and Special Minister of State
• High rise housing
• Death by design
• Boronia Park update
• 2017 AGM
• Walks and Events
• Heritage of Hunters Hill – a new edition in the pipeline
• Heritage under threat – update
• House story – Redruth.

Vol 54, No 2, 2016

• Restoration story:  ‘Woodhall‘, 36 Farnell Street
• More positive stories…. On the other hand
• Heritage under threat:  18 Richmond Crescent
• Where there’s a will:  58 Pittwater Road
• Postscript:  11 Mark Street
• Gladesville Shopping Village update
• Greater Sydney Commission
• Council amalgamations update
• Joubert Street Childcare Centre
• Contributions recognised
• Vale Sheila Jolley
• Chanel Paradisa
• HHT Walks program.

Vol 54, No 1, 2016

• Character assassination:  the invasion of project homes
• President’s Report:  Working with Council; Boronia Park Plan of Management; Gladesville Shopping Village; The Priory; Dissension in the Ranks; Submission to the Council Boundary Review
• Amalgamation update
• Vale Richard Temple
• Vale Ailsa McPherson

Vol 53, No 2, November 2015

• Unfit for the future? by Tony Coote
• What the community wants, by Tony Coote
• A renewed push and environmentalists and community groups, by Tony Coote
• Hunters Hill Trust Walks, by Maureen Flowers
• Diana Drake 1921-2015
• Didier Joubert, by Roslyn Maguire.

Vol 53, No 1, June 2015

• Boronia Park Draft Plan of Management
• Riverglade Toilet Block
• President’s Report
• 10 Cowell Street
• Vale Tom Uren
• More knock downs
• AGM Report.

Vol 52, No 2, October 2014

• Character Assassination:  foreshores under threat from 10/50 Clearing Code
• Gladesville Shopping Village update
• No 11 Mark Street update
• Boronia Park update
• Annual General Meeting
• State Heritage listing for Gladesville Bridge
• Musings
• My place:  10 Gladesville Road.

Vol 52, No 1, April 2014

• Character assassination:  heritage vandalism or demolition by neglect
• Gladesville Shopping Village update
• Monica Sheehan
• Boronia Park oval update
• The mansion and the mission house:  Building in the 1850s, by Ros Maguire
• Lane Cove River Foreshores update
• Hunters Hill village bustops: the movie, by David Salter
• Musings, by Tony Coote
• President’s Report, by Robyn Christie.

Vol 51, Number 2, 2013

• Character assassination:  the continuing loss of trees and damage to the harbour foreshore
• Coles over-development plan in Gladesville
• Planning ‘Reforms’ in NSW:  corruption issues
• The saga of Boronia Park Oval
• Amenties in Riverglade Reserve
• Hunters Hill’s own nail house

Vol 51, Number 1, 2013

• Council amalgamations
• Future directions for planning in NSW:  implications of the White Paper
• From the President’s desktop
• Oval No 3, Boronia Park

Vol 50 Number 2, 2012

• New Museum of Contempory Art, Bob Clark
• From the President’s Desktop, Robyn Christie
• Darft Plan of Management for Riverglade Reserve, Alister Sharpe
• News Update
• Musings, Tony Coote

Vol 50, Number 1, 2012

• More French connections
• Tree removals
• News from Hunters Hills Reserves
• Hunters Hill’s Draft LEP

Vol 50, No 1, May 2012

Vol 49, No 2, November 2011

• The Garibaldi Hotel
• From the President’s Desktop
• 2011 AGM
• 40th Anniversary of the Battle for Kelly’s Bush

Vol 49, No 1, April 2011

• A visit to Thomas Muir’s Huntershill, Scotland, Beverley Sherry
• From the President’s desktop, Tony Coote
• In the room of kings, Chris Hartley
• Community lands under threat in  Hunters Hill, Brigid Dowsett and Alister Sharp

Vol 48 No 2 November 2010-1 and Vol 48 No 2 November 2010-2 and Vol 48 No 2 November 2010-3

• A personal tribute to Douglass Baglin, Beverley Sherry
• From the President’s Desktop, Tony Coote
• Stormater & Sewerage, Bridg Dowsett
• Death by a Thousand Cuts, Sally Gaunt

Vol 48, No 1, April 2010

• From The President’s Desktop, Tony Coote
• Old Houses are Environmentally Friendly, Kate Clark
• Protecting Trees on Building Sites, Brigid Dowsett

Vol 47, No 2, October 2009 

• From the President’s Desktop, Tony Coote
• Thomas Muir and the Naming of Hunter’s Hill, Beverley Sherry
• Boronia Park Reflections, A Conversation with Arthur Mashford, Sally Gaunt and Brigid Dowsett

Vol 47, No 1, May 2009

• Some Lost Wharves of Hunters Hill, Kate Russell
• Ryde Hunters Hill Local Environment Plan
• Four Storey Limit
• From The President’s Desktop, Tony Coote

Vol 46, No 2, November 2008

• From The President’s Desktop, Tony Coote
• 40th Anniversary
• The Chalet
• Heritage Watch

Vol 46, No 1, May 2008

• From The President’s Desktop, David Gaunt
• At the Crossroads, Ryde Road Revisited, David Gaunt
• The Chalet, a Treasure in Danger, Tony Coote
• Heritage Watch, Sally Gaunt

Vol 45, No 3, November 2007

• From The President’s Desktop, David Gaunt
• Greening your Home, Peter Meloy
• Riverglade, Sally Gaunt

Vol 45, No 2, April 2007

• From The President’s Desktop, David Gaunt
• Two good results at the Land and Environment Court
• An Overlooked Stone Structure:  the Bridge Street Bridge, Paul Fletcher
• The Concept of Context, Robyn Christie
• Your House, seminar