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Street fabric and infrastructure

Understand heritage policy as it relates to street fabric and infrastructure.

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Illustration of a lamp post and seat on the street in front of a house.

​It is policy to:

  • Encourage street furniture, including shelters, seats, rubbish bins, bicycle racks, drinking fountains and the like, where it avoids:
    • Impacts on views to significant or contributory places and contributory elements.
    • ​Physical impacts on bluestone kerbs, channels and gutters, other historic street infrastructure, lanes and street tree plantings.
  • Ensure works to existing historic street/lane fabric and infrastructure is carried out in a way that retains the original fabric, form and appearance.​
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Diagram showing examples of street furniture in front of significant and contributory heritage places: (1) a bin that physically impacts a bluestone kerb to laneway; (2) A meter that impacts views to a significant building; (3) a set, bicycle racks and lamp post that retain the original fabric, form and appearance of the street fabric.
Figure 28: Street fabric and infrastructure

our acknowledgement

  • Torres Strait Islander Flag
  • Aboriginal People Flag

The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. 

 

We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.

We accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and are committed to walking together to build a better future.