Great news! Ballarat Orphanage School House to be saved from demolition. At the Victorian Civil & Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) today (17 October 2014), Counsel for the developer, 200 Victoria Street Developments Pty Ltd, announced that he had been instructed by his client not to proceed with the appeal against the Ballarat City Council’s decision to prevent the demolition of the Orphanage School House. Unless there is a totally irrational and unjustified intervention by the Minister for Planning, that brings to an the end the long struggle by former residents – supported by Ballarat friends like Brett Edginton from Ballarat Trades and Labour Council – to save the last remnants of the former Orphanage from the wreckers.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 06:36:21 +0000