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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 2017 ..
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services): Mr Deputy Speaker, for the information of members I present the following papers:
Land (Planning and Environment) Act, pursuant to section 29-Variation (No. 145) to the Territory Plan relating to the Heritage Places Register, together with background papers, a copy of the summaries and reports.
I ask for leave to make a statement.
Leave granted.
MR SMYTH: Variation No 145 to the Territory Plan proposes to enter a further six places on the Heritage Places Register at appendix V of the Territory Plan written statement. Those places are the Cuppacumbalong (De Salis) Cemetery and avenue of elms at Tharwa; St Edmund's Anglican Church and surrounds at Tharwa; the ACT-New South Wales border markers (group 1); Haig Park in Braddon and Turner; the Dairy Farmers Cooperative at Griffith; and the All Saints Church in Ainslie. In addition, it is proposed to amend the entry on the register for the St John the Baptist Church and churchyard at Reid to include St John's Schoolhouse Museum and to rename the area the St John the Baptist precinct.
Cuppacumbalong Cemetery is sited overlooking the confluence of the Murrumbidgee and Gudgenby rivers and is a rare example of a 19th century pastoral station cemetery. The gravesite features a unique construction of a raised terrace cemetery with banks of local stone. The layout, with a separation of the graves, demonstrates aspects of social and cultural order of 19th century rural Australia. In addition, there are remnants of an avenue of elms, which originally provided a formal link to the Cuppacumbalong homestead.
St Edmund's of Tharwa is historically significant for its continuous association with the Anglican community and demonstrates the social prominence of religion in rural village life during the early 20th century. St Edmund's is the only Anglican church in the ACT constructed in the "Carpenter Gothic" style of the Federation period.
The ACT-New South Wales border markers, dating from 1913 to 1915, are associated with the establishment of the national capital. These continue to define the territorial boundary. The markers reflect surveying in a past era which was very different to today's electronic and satellite-based surveying practices. The markers include some rare mile reference trees whose engravings display skilful use of the mallet and chisel.
Haig Park in Braddon and Turner is a significant landscape feature of Canberra which demonstrates the early establishment of plantings to function as a windbreak. Constructed around 1921 through to 1923, it extends over some 1,780 metres and comprises 14 rows of mixed evergreen and deciduous tree species. The park has become an integral component of the landscaped open space between the adjoining suburbs, reflecting contemporary garden city planning. The park will be conserved in perpetuity
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