Heritage overlay recommended for “Ramsay Street” homes
Local council to consider protection for Pin Oak Court homes for their state and potentially global cultural significance.
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Location homes used as Neighbours‘ famous Ramsay Street could be added to the Victorian Heritage Register following an assessment prepared for Whitehorse Council.
The Pin Oak Court Vermont South were deemed to be of historic, aesthetic and social significance at state level and arguably at an international level.
Counci will consider the recommendations at a meeting tonight for authorisation from the Planning Minister to prepare a planning scheme amendment for a permanent Heritage Overlay to properties at 1 – 6 Pin Oak Court.
Report authors GJM Heritage also advised that Pin Oak Court in combination with the nearby former ATV-O Television Studios at 104-168 Hawthorn Rd, Forest Hill may be of significance for its association with the filming and production of Neighbours.
The former ATV-O building (aka Wentworth Detention Centre) won an architectural award in 1965 and was given a heritage overlay by Whitehorse Council in 2016.
Executive Producer Jason Herbison recently told TV Tonight Fremantle will continue to lease the site in the short term, used for upcoming 10 / UK drama, Riptide.
“We have it to the end of the year and we’ll be utilising it for some other things between now and the end of the year. But I don’t know what’s going to happen to the site beyond that.”
The studio backlot backlot is also home to the Lassiters complex (originally built for 1981’s Holiday Island), the 2013 construction of full-size backyards of Ramsay Street houses plus the ‘Power Road’ streetscape facade of ‘Grease Monkeys’ and Fitzgerald Motors (previously Carpenters Mechanics).
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I really do hope they protect and save the Studios. Its a fantastic historical piece of Australian history.
The powers that be will be giving it a go next and trying the same stunt where Home and Away is filmed. There are more “sites” worthy of “preservation” surely.
Why would a heritage overlay for Palm Beach itself be so terrible?
They can always sell up and move. They’d fetch a nice price for one of these houses.
And they were well compensated for the use of their houses. Given the show ran for 37 years, they must have known this would be a possibility.
As much as people would like the street preserved, it would be unfair on property owners! They agreed to producers using the front of their properties to make the show. That agreement has now finished. They are still having to deal with fans visiting! Telling people they cant do anything ever to their properties simply because the show was so popular is an unfair penalty uopn them
There will be some wishing they never bought into Pin Oak Court the last few years now….
This is the stuff of nightmares for anyone who owns property.
Aren’t a couple of the houses already owned by a rich British superfan. They’d be thrilled!