List of properties to be de-registered from Tas Heritage List

*Pic: Narryna Heritage Museum in Battery Point …

The list of properties to be de-registered from Tas Heritage List …

https://tas.gov.au/publicinfo/notice.php?id=91 Launceston

https://tas.gov.au/publicinfo/notice.php?id=94 Hobart

A submission, or objection, must be made in writing and lodged with the Tasmanian Heritage Council within 60 days of the date of this notice.

• John Hawkins in Comments: … Here at Bentley in Tasmania I am helping the village as they fight to prevent the destruction of an idyllic landscape by the creation on the high ground of the proposed new village of Chudleigh North a creation forced on us against the best wishes of the village residents who virtually en block petitioned against it to the Meander Valley Council. When we succeed it will be as a result of the efforts of those in the village making a supreme effort to protect themselves from those they have elected who seem to act entirely out of spite. Tasmania has no Landscape Legislation, no Cultural Landscape Legislation and the Heritage Council has actively campaigned to maintain this crazy exemption to facilitate the vested interests of the bankrupt logging industry. Today at lunchtime in the village there were two large coaches, the Honey Shop was packed not a logging truck in sight and all the tables were full in the Village Store. We will succeed.

• Bob Hawkins in Comments: … What has happened since 1975? That wise and insightful 349-page document has mouldered somewhere in the Commonwealth archives. Today, we are in an era when antique, heritage, history, intrinsic, and other such words redolent of the sense of “the things that you keep” are so unfashionable that government authorities (so many of which have been found to be corrupt in recent years) can treat them with contempt. To the valiant rearguard up there in Bentley, I say: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down”. And to John Hawkins: “May your cry of, ‘We will succeed’, put fear in the hearts of barbaric, money-hungry developers.