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Newport Railway Estate No.2 Precinct

Location

Millers Road (west), Blackshaws Road (north), Mills Street, Hansen Street (east), Ross Street (south) NEWPORT, Hobsons Bay City

Level

Rec for other form of protection

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Newport Railway Estate No. 2, which comprises the land included in subdivision LPs 12834, 12379 south of Blackshaws Road, east of Millers Road, north of Ross Street, west of Mills Road and west of Hansen Street with parks including Cooper, Langshaw, Clement, and Irwin reserves, including all allotments, park and road reserves planned in the 1920s.

How is it Significant?

The Newport Railway Estate No.2 is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, it is significant for its evocation of a period of ascendency for new town planning ideas after WW1, and for its association with the Melbourne Metropolitan Town Planning Commission and the noted surveyor Saxil Tuxen, which is demonstrated by its use in the landmark Melbourne Metropolitan Town Planning Commission 1929 report to illustrate modern planning principles. (AHC criterion A4, F1 and H1)

Aesthetically, the subdivision layout is significant for its rare and unusual radial planning that illustrates the latest town planning theory in the State at the time it was originally planned and laid out. (AHC criterion B2 and E1)

Some heritage places within this precinct may also have an individual citation in this Study.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

Residential Precinct