The following are recommendations arising from this study and the City of Frankston Heritage Study 1995 carried out for the former City of Frankston.
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Priority |
Funding |
Estimated Cost |
Heritage Conservation in General Council Policy
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Rural Landscape (Amenity Conservation)
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Encourage the retention of existing mature rural vegetation, trees and windbreaks in new growth areas.
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L |
F |
$2000 (capital) for brochure; staff time for negotiation. |
Protect the character of rural roadsides by implementation of the Regional Roadside Management Plan.
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L |
F |
$10,000 (capital) Install rural roadside promotional signs. |
| Contain new development within rural buffers. |
L |
F |
$500 (recurrent) Planning initiatives.
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Historic Areas, Buildings and Trees
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Adopt the Frankston City Heritage Study 1997 as policy and as an incorporated document in the Frankston planning scheme 1997.
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H |
D |
(see Specific Actions below). |
Continue to identify, list and document areas, gardens, trees and buildings of historical or other special significance, reviewing heritage assets on a nominally five year basis.
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M |
D F |
$10,000 five yearly (recurrent). |
Recognise the importance of ongoing collection and housing of historical records, archives and oral history with funding allocation to assist microfilming and/or oral history transcription and publication.
|
M |
F |
(see Specific Actions below). |
Specific Actions
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Victorian Heritage Register |
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Seek addition of places of State or National significance identified in the study to the Victorian Heritage Register.
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H |
D F |
$2,500 (recurrent) Council & Heritage Victoria staff time. |
Seek the advice of the Victorian Heritage Council if places of National or State significance are threatened by development prior to assessment for the Victorian Heritage Register.
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H |
F |
$1,000 (recurrent) Council and Heritage Victoria. |
Register of the National Estate |
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Seek addition of unregistered places identified in this report as of State or Regional significance to the National Estate Register if they are not already recognised.
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L |
F |
$2,500 (recurrent) Council staff time. |
Frankston Planning Scheme 1997 |
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Protect places identified in this study as of Regional, State or National significance in the Frankston planning scheme 1997.
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H |
F |
$2,500 (recurrent) Council staff. |
Consult the Heritage Council of Victoria over any proposed development of sites of Regional or State importance in the interim.
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H |
D F |
$1,000 (recurrent) Council & Heritage Victoria time. |
Waive planning application fees related to listed heritage places.
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H |
F |
$500 (recurrent) |
Halve the general municipal rate for heritage properties subject to agreement by owners on heritage controls and monitor compliance periodically aided by a heritage consultant.
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H |
F |
Allow $5,000 (capital) for heritage consultant. |
Support increased flexibility of land use for heritage properties.
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M |
F |
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Aid in the preparation of detailed conservation management plans for each site listed in the planning scheme to highlight development and heritage potential.
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H |
F |
$5,000 (recurrent) Council staff time; $5,000 (capital) consultant time, as needed. |
Protect mature Monterey pine and Monterey cypress rows where these rows are judged of potential historical and/or aesthetic importance to the City placed under Local Policy Statement in the Frankston planning scheme 1997.
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M |
F |
$500 (recurrent) Council Staff time. |
Cultural Landscape |
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Carry out a significant tree survey for that part of the (western section) City not covered by the 1997 survey and protect any identified trees in the planning scheme.
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M |
D |
$5,000 (capital). |
Develop tree pruning policy and liaise with service providers to ensure against tree damage in service reticulation (i.e. effects of overhead lines).
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H |
F |
$2,000 (recurrent) Council staff time. |
City Heritage Advisory Service |
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Consider employing a heritage adviser to provide development advice to planning permit applicants who own heritage sites as part of a heritage advisory service.
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M |
D |
$5,000 (recurrent) for heritage adviser. |
Consider employing a heritage adviser to provide Council with expert comment on planning permit proposals for heritage sites.
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H |
D |
(as above). |
Heritage Education and Promotion Program |
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Promote heritage conservation and the heritage advisory service through:
- house and garden restoration competitions,
- walking and driving heritage tours (including natural and cultural heritage),
- production of tourist postcards,
- wider use of cultural tourist signs and trails,
- celebration of historical events in the City's history,
- workshops or public instruction dealing with heritage and related issues,
- trade fairs, encouraging local suppliers and trades people to show their work as it relates to heritage,
- a weekly heritage column in local newspapers or newsletters.
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M |
F |
Council time; $15,000 (recurrent) promotion budget. |
| Support the local history archives in the Ballam Park collection by ensuring appropriate housing and cataloguing of their original artefacts and records based on an agreed management plan. |
M |
F |
$5,000 (capital) for management plan preparation; annual tied grant to Ballam Park based on plan.
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Develop infrastructure and methodology for a community-based local oral history collection, providing tape recorders, tapes, cataloguing and transcription; provide guidelines; and publish the outcome annually.
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M |
F |
$5,000 (recurrent). |
Prepare a management plan for preservation of historic Council records (minute books, rate books, early building permit application & engineering drawings) to include making copies onto an agree medium (microfiche, computer imaging).
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M |
F |
$5,000 (capita) for plan; Ongoing Council budget allocation following plan recommendations. |
Provide the Frankston library with (micro-fiche or optical disk) copies of all municipal rate books and minutes books held by Council for public access.
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M |
F |
$1,000 (capital) nominal duplication cost, dependent on media. |
| Develop a community based heritage recording program to record photographically all aspects of the City's heritage on a compact disk for public access in libraries. |
M |
F |
$5,000 (capital) to set up image database on CD ROM. |
