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GAWLER DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL P ICTURED:
Above: Streetscape view of site along Cameron Street to St George’s Church.
highlights weakened heritage protections
Bottom left: Tennis courts and adjacent houses, c 1903. Bottom right: View of Church Hill State Heritage Area with open space in centre.
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H E R I TAG E L I V I N G
Even South Australia’s seventeen State Heritage Areas are not safe from inappropriate development and vagaries under the state’s new planning regulations despite their accepted outstanding natural or cultural significance, as an ongoing battle on Gawler’s Church Hill makes clear.
