I just found out that a house I do not own but have an emotional attachment to is to be demolished. Blah Blah your thinking.
I read the proposal submitted to the Brisbane City Council as it is in a DCP zone. Demolition Control Precinct. The ruling on this 1920's house is that it does not fit with the overall street appeal. 80% of the other houses were built in the 1940's for the returning WW2 soldiers. Most of the land in the street was owned by the Australian Army untill after WW2.
In the application there is nothing about it being built in the 1920's. The current owners took very clever photo's showing some work they had done which has made it look like a house built post 1946. In the photo's its hard to tell that behind it is a queensland built by returning WW1 soldiers for WW1 soldiers as part of the resettlement scheme.
My conclusion is dont worry about DCP if in Brisbane it means jack.
If your house is in a DCP zone just whack some second hand fibro on covering all the features, take some pics from across the street and the council will none the wiser. The company that put together the proposal did a great job. So anyone wanting to demolish a house and subdivide and build two houses thats how you do it. The is a quote from the Brisbane City Council site.
Demolition Code
The intent of the Demolition Code is to maintain the character of traditional pre-warstreetscapes by controlling demolition (full and partial), relocation and removal ofbuildings that contribute to the traditional character of the street or area.The Brisbane City Council will only approve the removal of a pre-war structure undercertain circumstances, these being:a) The building has been substantially altered and/or does not have the
appearance of being constructed in or prior to 1946.

That's the reason given for approval, does not have the appearance of being constructed prior to 1946. I'm hoping to stand out the front when it is demolished to see what happens when they uncover the underground concrete bomb shelter that my grandfather filled in with water and sewerage at the end of WW2.


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