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MACROBERTSON GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL
350 KINGS WAY MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY
MACROBERTSON GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL
350 KINGS WAY MELBOURNE, PORT PHILLIP CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The MacRobertson Girls' High School, designed by architect Norman H Seabrook and constructed in 1934, a Modernist multi-storey brick school building with a clock tower and paved courtyard.How is it significant?
The MacRobertson Girls' High School is of architectural and historical significance to the State of Victoria.Why is it significant?
The MacRobertson Girls' High School is of historical significance for its association with noted industrialist and philanthropist Sir MacPherson Robertson, who donated over £100,000 to the State of Victoria as a gesture of goodwill and thanks in the year of its centenary allowing for the establishment of the new school. The school is also of significance for its associations with its direct antecedents: the Model School in Spring Street; the Melbourne Continuation School, Victoria's first state secondary school, later renamed Melbourne High School; and Melbourne Girls' High School, the first single sex girls' state secondary school in Victoria. Each of these schools has played a notable part in the evolution of the state's education system, as has the MacRobertson Girls' High School. [Criterion A]Show more
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MACROBERTSON GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL - Permit Exemptions
General Exemptions:General exemptions apply to all places and objects included in the Victorian Heritage Register (VHR). General exemptions have been designed to allow everyday activities, maintenance and changes to your property, which don’t harm its cultural heritage significance, to proceed without the need to obtain approvals under the Heritage Act 2017.Places of worship: In some circumstances, you can alter a place of worship to accommodate religious practices without a permit, but you must notify the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria before you start the works or activities at least 20 business days before the works or activities are to commence.Subdivision/consolidation: Permit exemptions exist for some subdivisions and consolidations. If the subdivision or consolidation is in accordance with a planning permit granted under Part 4 of the Planning and Environment Act 1987 and the application for the planning permit was referred to the Executive Director of Heritage Victoria as a determining referral authority, a permit is not required.Specific exemptions may also apply to your registered place or object. If applicable, these are listed below. Specific exemptions are tailored to the conservation and management needs of an individual registered place or object and set out works and activities that are exempt from the requirements of a permit. Specific exemptions prevail if they conflict with general exemptions. Find out more about heritage permit exemptions here.Specific Exemptions:Permit Exemptions
Permit exemptions for interiors (1934 Building)
• Works to maintain bathrooms, kitchens and laboratories, including installing new appliances, re-tiling and the like.
• Removal or replacement of carpets and/or flexible floor coverings.
• Installation, removal or replacement of existing electrical wiring. If wiring is currently exposed, it should remain exposed. If it is fully concealed it should remain concealed.
• Removal or replacement of devices for the hanging of wall mounted artworks in existing locations.
• Maintenance, repair and replacement of light fixtures, tracks and the like.
• Removal or replacement of smoke and fire detectors, alarms and the like.
• Repair, removal or replacement of existing ducted, hydronic or concealed radiant type heating provided that the central plant is concealed, and that the work is done in a manner which does not alter building fabric.
• Installation of plant within the roof space, providing that it does not impact on the external appearance of the building or involve structural changes.
• Installation, removal or replacement of bulk insulation in the roof space.
Landscape/outdoor areas
Hard landscaping and services
• Subsurface works to existing garden watering and drainage systems provided these are outside the canopy edge of trees. Existing lawns, gardens and hard landscaping, including paving and paths are to be returned to the original configuration and appearance on completion of works.
• Maintenance, repair and replacement of existing services such as plumbing, electrical cabling, surveillance systems, pipes or fire services which does not involve changes in location or scale.
• Like for like repair and maintenance of existing hard landscaping including carparks, footpaths and driveways where the materials, scale, form and design is unchanged.
• Removal or replacement of external signage provided the size, location and material remains the same.
• Installation of physical barriers or traps to enable vegetation protection and management of vermin such as rats, mice and possums.
• Repair, removal and replacement of flagpoles (not part of the 1930s design or fabric of the place) to the west of the 1934 Building, providing replacements are in the same locations.
Gardening, trees and plants
• The processes of gardening including mowing, pruning, mulching, fertilizing, removal of dead or diseased plants (excluding trees), replanting of existing garden beds, disease and weed control and maintenance to care for existing plants.
• Removal of tree seedlings and suckers without the use of herbicides.
• Management and maintenance of trees including formative and remedial pruning, removal of deadwood and pest and disease control.
• Emergency tree works to maintain public safety provided the Executive Director is notified within seven days of the removal or works occurring.
• Removal of environmental and noxious weeds.
MACROBERTSON GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL - Permit Exemption Policy
Notes
• All works should ideally be informed by a Conservation Management Plan prepared for the place. The Executive Director is not bound by any Conservation Management Plan, and permits still must be obtained for works suggested in any Conservation Management Plan.
• Nothing in this determination prevents the Heritage Council from amending or rescinding all or any of the permit exemptions.
• Nothing in this determination exempts owners or their agents from the responsibility to seek relevant planning or building permits where applicable.
General Conditions
• All exempted alterations are to be planned and carried out in a manner which prevents damage to the fabric of the registered place.
• Should it become apparent during further inspection or the carrying out of works that original or previously hidden or inaccessible details of the place are revealed which relate to the significance of the place, then the exemption covering such works must cease and Heritage Victoria must be notified as soon as possible.
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