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MT LOFTY LANDSCAPE

Location Lower Homestead Road WONGA PARK, Manningham City Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

The Mt. Lofty landscape has regional significance for the views to and from Mt. Lofty, a district landmark; for views from the peak illustrating the geological history of the Upper Yarra Valley; for important views of riverfront vegetation along the Yarra River near Homestead and Stephen Roads; and a view of the Yarra River Rapids and the rock face near the Yarra River Gorge near Wonga Park. The natural river landscapes are set within an historic pastoral landscape of open paddocks and mature pine and cypress windbreaks (this landscape extending across into the Shire of Yarra Ranges). The area has local historical significance for its associations with early pastoral development from the 1850s. (Criterion A4, E1]