{"id":265,"date":"2010-07-16T20:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?page_id=265"},"modified":"2023-03-10T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T01:44:23","slug":"community-vision-draft","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/menangle.com.au\/?page_id=265","title":{"rendered":"Composite Heritage Curtilage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Submission to Council for a Composite Heritage Curtilage. 15 Feb. 2011<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Council\u2019s Draft DCP is incomplete:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Menangle section <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does not<\/span> mention the Cowpastures, Governor Macquarie, Mt Taurus or Camden Park House and other heritage assets .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Part of our areas heritage is the rural views which are also not mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Existing Reports on Views and Curtilage.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Macarthur South Paper 1991 reported<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Menangle Hills as being Culturally significant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gilbulla and Menangle needed protection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A curtilage was required for protection of these sites and for visual relief<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjacent land use \u201c \u2026should complement the heritage item\u201d (p78).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>stresses the use of \u201cprotected by appropriate zonings and the development of appropriate guidelines\u201d including the preservation of vegetation and the careful assessment of visual impacts\u201d (p78)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wollondilly own Heritage Survey in 1991, reported Menangle Village has \u201cheritage significance because it is an unusually intact example of a <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">RURAL<\/span><\/strong> service centre.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Camden Park Estate report for the Department of Environment and Planning by Howard Tanner and Assoc. in 1983 identified the view from Menangle Pond to Menangle as requiring preservation. (Page 7 Map)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Christopher Betteridge, BSc (Sydney), MSc (Leicester), AMA (London), Director of MUSEcape Pty Ltd, is a qualified botanist with a Master\u2019s degree in museum studies and training in heritage conservation. He lists Menangle as modeled on the typical English village, including a beautiful church within walking distance for locals, a store, a common, a school, all within a carefully manicured landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Menangle&#8217;s uniqueness&nbsp;sets it apart&nbsp;from the rest of Wollondilly&nbsp;because: <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It&nbsp;is Wollondilly&#8217;s only historic village&nbsp;in the Cowpastures and a part of the original Camden Park Estate (State Heritage listed.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It has within&nbsp;6 km, 35 listings on the State Heritage&nbsp;Inventory and with 18 historic houses in Menangle, which makes 53 historic assets.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&nbsp;assisted with 15 Australian Agricultural Firsts from 1788 to last years Rotary Robot Milking Machine..<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&nbsp;was and&nbsp;is, agriculturally significant in wool, meat, dairy, fruit, brandy, wine,&nbsp;irrigation&nbsp;and research.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is still one of the most agriculturally productive areas in the Sydney basin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It is environntally significant with the Nepean River, endangered wildlife, fish and remnants of cumberland woodland.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>30,000 people visit the area for education and tourism annually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Menangle is unique in Australia and it needs a \u201cComposite Heritage Curtilage\u201d like Berrima&#8217;s to protect the rural heritage and encourage employment in tourism and agriculture.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submission to Council for a Composite Heritage Curtilage. 15 Feb. 2011 Council\u2019s Draft DCP is incomplete: 1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Menangle section does not mention the Cowpastures, Governor Macquarie, Mt Taurus or Camden Park House and other heritage assets . 2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Part of our areas heritage is the rural views which are also not mentioned. 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