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The decaying, heritage-listed Lamb House has been boarded up ahead of an increasingly likely council auction to recover unpaid rates.
The 119-year-old mansion, which overlooks Brisbaneâs CBD from atop the Kangaroo Point cliffs, will be acquired and sold by Brisbane City Council if $321,000 in outstanding rates are not paid.
A mound of newspapers and magazines litters the garden of Lamb House, which has been boarded up while its fate is determined.
Credit:Tony Moore
At the front of the residence â officially and simply named âHomeâ â is a metre-high mound of newspapers and magazines fused together in a papier-mache mass forged by months or years of rain.
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They approved a bill 51-19 Tuesday, largely along party lines. The proposal would require legislative approval before a school district renamed a building or before a city renamed a street if they’re named after historical figures.
Relocating a statue to a place of “similar prominence” would not need prior approval, nor would temporarily relocating a monument that needed to be cleaned or repaired.
The legislation is in response to last summer’s civil unrest in which statues of historical figures in American history were removed or vandalized. Many of these statues depicted confederate figures or slaveholders – including the Founding Fathers.
TORONTO An Ontario judge has ruled that the province cannot proceed with the demolition of a group of heritage buildings in Toronto’s West Don Lands pending a decision next month. “Friends of the Foundry are very relieved that today’s decision by J. Corbett of the Ontario Divisional Court will protect the Dominion Foundry buildings from further damage at least until a full hearing at the end of February,” community group Friends of the Foundry said in a statement Friday evening. The buildings at 153-185 Eastern Avenue are on the former site of the Dominion Wheel and Foundries Company (known locally as the Foundry site).
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Here’s why people are rallying to protect this Toronto heritage site from demolition
The provincial government has paused demolition of the Foundry site in West Don Lands after an outcry in Toronto By Julia Mastroianni
Matthew Cornett
Demolition crew arrived on site on January 14 and began tearing down the buildings on the following Monday.
Community members and Toronto councillors are fighting to protect four heritage buildings on the Foundry site in the West Don Lands after the province started demolition on January 18.
The Dominion Wheel and Foundries Company site at 153 to 185 Eastern Avenue is a provincially owned property that falls under a Ministerial Zoning Order (MZO) issued by the province.