Planning/Heritage

Conservationists promote tourism initiative on the Tasman Peninsula

This week the combined environment groups of Tasmania launched their tourism vision for the Tasman Peninsula – the Tasman Coastal Trails. Their...

Green Point’s disappearing act

This was the view to the west over Green Point from the Channel Highway before the wall was built and new vegetation...

Alternatives to a Cable Car on Mt Wellington (Kunanyi)

The best way to stop the boats and drive down tourism? Demolish what they have come to see …

The demolition of yet another century old house in Battery Point is imminent. Not just any old cottage but one intimately connected...

Concerns Over New Housing Unit Code

Recently a colleague came to me with a familiar situation. He and his neighbours were fighting against a small unit development adjoining...

Words, meaning and Hobart architecture

Hopefully, readers will remember my Tasmanian Times article ( Oct 24, Hobart Architecture and The Dilemmas of Development ) which discussed the...

Dear Premier: I note that I have had no formal response to this letter

Now you see it, now you don’t … the sign in question Premier, On 12 November2012 I wrote an open letter to...

Tassie design studio beats the world …

Design and delivery of the University of Tasmania (UTAS) $75 million Academy of Creative Industries and Performing Arts (ACIPA) has been awarded...

Heritage in Hock

Parliament Fails Tasmanian Built Heritage The Parliament of Tasmania’s key measure to protect public ownership of, and public access to, much of...

Hobart and Douglas Mawson: A Love Story

Hobart’s waterfront is increasingly becoming a puzzling site, filled with ice-skating rinks, plastic penguins, swarms of car-parking spaces and soon, a replica...