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Response to Conservation Management Plan for Fletcher Jones factory and gardens

Options

Option 1 - Extreme (or most practical) Option

• The gardens should remain, together with the Quonset hut in its original 1949 state (photo 2). Both these elements should remain in the ownership of the WCC.

• A demolition permit should be applied for over the remaining infrastructure¹⁴ including the water tower¹⁵.

• Covenants/controls should then be established with regard to the treatment of any building facades that face the gardens. Wherever practical these should retain existing building elements.

Option 2 - Compromise Option

The gardens etc. remain as above but only the following elements of the original buildings are retained:

• The original canteen front façade (Part 2 photos 20 & 21)

• The original canteen interior with staircase linking to north section of 1st floor canteen and roughly aligning with the south wall of the Bristol hut.

• The north face of the 1st floor canteen aligned together with the original canteen staircase and Bristol Hut.

• The Round Room (Part 2 - photo 25)

The original tower and façade of the original cutting room should only be retained or rebuilt if the developer wishes to demolish the Executive offices and 1st floor office area and the linking passageway.

¹⁴ I suppose that I should have as much or more of an ‘emotional attachment to the infrastructure of Pleasant Hill‘ as anyone but, I do not support the artificial recreation of an architectural concept that has not been part of Pleasant Hill for 40 – 50 years.
¹⁵The water tower may be an ‘asset’ in the eyes of a potential developer but in my opinion it is a major ‘liability’. A local Sydney Harbour Bridge! It has not been responsibly maintained for close to 20 years.