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Munition Workers' Housing

Other Name

Commonwealth Housing

Location

off Duke St BRAYBROOK, Maribyrnong City

File Number

Original Hermes No: 28875

Level

Statement of Significance

Munition Workers' Housing precinct is significant to Victoria because: - it is part of a Federal Government-initiated housing scheme for workers in the munitions industry in the Maribyrnong-Footscray area, then the largest concentration of defence production establishments in Australia, when World War Two began, as exemplified by the high integrity of the estate with its uniformity of house design, siting, lot layout, early landscape and concrete road construction ( Criterion A4, B2) .

- it was among the first major Commonwealth war housing schemes to be undertaken and was one of the few large-scale housing schemes undertaken in Victoria during World War Two ( Criterion B2); and - it is a good exemplar of contemporary mass house planning and estate layout principles, as indicated by the provision of parklands, curvilinear street patterns, street trees and culde- sacs ( Criterion F1).

Group

Military