HOPES are fading among residents trying to save a former inn built about 1823 at Bellerive.
In February, Clarence City Council overwhelmingly rejected an application to demolish what was originally the Golden Fleece Inn on Victoria Esplanade to allow for a new house development.
But since the appeal against the council’s refusal, the developer has also lodged a new application for demolition only.
Public comment on that application closed recently.
The twin procedures give the developer two processes to secure approval for demolition.
Bellerive Historical Society president John Sargent, who lives next to the former inn, has applied five times to the Tasmanian Heritage Council since January last year to enter the building on the state’s heritage register.
Mr Sargent said each time the heritage council had rejected this on the grounds the building had been substantially altered and did not meet the criteria for entry to the register.
In January this year, heritage council chairman Michael Lynch said an application to register the building was first made in 1997, when it was rejected on the same grounds.
“I am sorry that we cannot agree on the values of the place as it now exists and I fear that we shall …
Earlier on Tasmanian Times: Save the Golden Fleece Inn
