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HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct
Cerberus Crescent and Champion Road (part) and Edina Street and Gem Street and Park Crescent (part) WILLIAMSTOWN NORTH, Hobsons Bay City

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HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct, Hobsons Bay Heritage Study 2006
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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?

The Housing Commission of Victoria Champion Road Estate Heritage Precinct, which comprises all land in HO15 and generally includes properties bounded by Champion Road, Edina Street and Park Crescent, North Williamstown.

How is it Significant?

The Housing Commission of Victoria Champion Road Estate Heritage Precinct is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay.

Why is it Significant?

Historically, it is significant for its strong associations with the Housing Commission of Victoria as an early example of a model estate using 'garden city' principles, which illustrates the Housing Commission of Victoria reaction to local criticism of its early slum reclamation activities by the erection of substantial brick houses with integral parkland. (AHC criteria A4 and H1)

Aesthetically, it is significant as one of the best preserved early Housing Commission of Victoria estates, which is notable for its strong visual homogeneity that is evocative of the construction period and is derived from the intact standard housing types and the curving street layout around a central park. (AHC criterion B2 and E1)

On this basis, the following places and other elements contribute to the significance of the precinct:

- Cerberus Crescent (odd) 1-31, (even) 2-6

- Champion Road (odd) 63, 65, 71-81

- Edina Street (odd) 1-5 and 27-29 (even) 2-34

- Park Crescent (even) 2-44

- Bluestone and concrete kerb and channeling and concrete road construction.

- Central park and public realm landscaping including mature Ash trees.

Please note that some heritage places within this precinct may also have an individual citation in this Study.

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    • Physical Description 1

      HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct - Physical Description 1

      This precinct centres on a reserve bounded by Gem and Edina Streets and Cerberus Crescent, all maritime names. The house are typically single storey attached pairs, with either red and clinker brick (Gem Street, Cerberus Crescent and Park Crescent) or stuccoed concrete walls (Edina Street), with terra-cotta variegated Marseilles pattern roofing tiles. The roads are concrete paved and the kerbs are basalt. Ash trees are planted in the reserve. Privet hedges, some trees (Italian cypress) and low front fences (typically metal post and wire) extend the landscape into each allotment. The estate has a high degree of visual homogeneity.

      Integrity

      HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct - Integrity

      Integrity

      High

      Usage/Former Usage

      HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct - Usage/Former Usage

      Context

      Set on flat land bounded by other suburban development and the massive Newport railway workshops.

      Historical Australian Themes

      HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct - Historical Australian Themes

      Principal Australian Historical Theme(s)

      Making Suburbs

      Physical Description 2

      HCV Champion Road Estate Precinct - Physical Description 2

      Associations

      Housing Commission of Victoria

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Hobsons Bay - Hobsons Bay Heritage Study

      Author: Hobsons Bay City Council
      Year: 2006
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