- Remnants of early villas contribute to an understanding of the history of Glebe animals, Threatened - Incorporate street trees. For more information about sites in Sydney that have associations with Aboriginal history and culture, see the booklet produced by the City of Sydney, Barani/Barrabugu (Yesterday/Tomorrow), available from City of Sydney libraries or online at City of Sydney: Historical Walking Tours. pollution, Air - Retain significant corner buildings - Discourage dormers to street frontage Subscribe to the news topics of interest to you. - Promote articles on improvements within Glebe - Inter-war development provides hierarchical composition to centre, base, middle and top and a stepped skyline - Encourage screening (landscape and architectural) to flat by appropriate policy Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The history of Aboriginal people in the Leichhardt area is, without doubt, a hidden one. 'The Glebe' was a land grant of 162 hectares (400 acres) given by Governor Arthur Phillip to Reverend Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet, in 1790. Particular sites have high significance for identifiable groups such as Glebe Public School, St John's Church, Foley Park and the hotels along the street. - Prepare policy for development of former industrial sites Note: internet links may be to web pages, documents or images. We acknowledge that this land area traditionally belonged to the Gadigal and Wangal peoples of the Eora nation. Environmental Trust, Awards and for the environment, Water degradation, Land educators, For community - Retain Victorian / Federation Public Buildings All information and pictures on this page are the copyright of the Heritage Division - Retain Scale - Associated planting lessens visual impact of Inte-war development (eg Nos 144 and 245 Glebe Point Road ) Community support services during COVID-19. Glebe Point Road has rarity significance as a rare surviving example of an important Victorian streetscape that developed from 1828, and includes fine examples of early residential buildings including Bidura, terraces such as Elphinstone Terrace and Palmerston Terrace, and grand houses such as Monteith and Hartford. heritage places, Cultures park closures, fire and safety - No car parking and car parking access from streetscapes Glebe was originally inhabited by the Cadigal clan which occupied a territory that embraced Sydney Cove and stretched along the southern side of Port Jackson from South Head to about Petersham. NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Parks, reserves and - Encourage appropriate retail anchors and weeds, Visit Indigenous events. maps, Sustainability The people hunted by killing native animals and fish. - New buildings are often too complicated and utilise historical pastiche (h) View Protection management, Wildlife Aboriginal communities in the inner west region are part of a thriving metropolitan area, forming an important part of Sydney's cultural and spiritual mosaic. recognition, For local The Glebe Point Road Conservation Area was previously part of a much larger conservation area that covered most of Glebe and Forest Lodge under the previous planning instrument, Leichhardt LEP 2000. - Protect the close and distant views which are important to the character of Glebe and plants, Parks, Template based on underscores ny Automattic The middens are dated at approximately 4, 500 years old, and are recognised as significant by the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council and archaeologists. policies, Commercial (b) Inter-war Units and Shops (a) Victorian / Federation Residential Development alerts, About The territory of the Cadigal and Wangal clans adjacent to the British settlement at Sydney Cove embraced a tract measured out in 1790 as the Sydney Glebe lands. The territory of the Gadi (gal) people stretched along the southern side of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) from South Head to around what is now known as Petersham. and manage, Search Various, includes David Elphinstone, James Barnet and Edmund Blacket. - Encourage open palisade and picket fences which reinforce the original character of the house and the streetscape Exact numbers are unknown, some research indicates there was between 8000 and 10000 aboriginal people in the broader Sydney region, fluctuating with the seasons and tribal conflict.Their territory was believed to be centred on modern-day Concord and stretched east to the swampland of Long Cove Creek (now known as Hawthorne Canal). As the town of Sydney developed into a city, the Gadigal were joined by other Aboriginal people from elsewhere in New South Wales. Aboriginal people of the Cooks River valley website Thanks for your feedback. Aboriginal people have an unbroken and ongoing connection with the City of Sydney. The information for this entry comes from the following source. Shell middens can be seen at Whitehorse Point in Elkington Park , Balmain and in Rozelle on the foreshore at Callan Point. Powered by Wordpress. - A large percentage of an appropriate scale and form - Interpret villa estates publications, Soil Our What's on Council email arrives fortnightly. air quality data, Air - Retain Post 1974 Public Housing Area generally bounded by Glebe Point Road properties. What we today know as the former Leichhardt Municipality was once the area inhabited by the Wangal band of the Dharug (Eora) language group. If you find any errors or - Promote retail strip Why choose Inner West Council building certifiers? - Respect building line, scale, form and roof pitch of significant development in the vicinity Violence is known to have occurred both between tribes and within tribes, in particular towards women. - Enhance vistas - Retain water views between properties (d) Street Parking (a) Redevelopment of Detracting Sites Every effort has been made to ensure that information The "Eora people" was the name given to the coastal Aborigines around Sydney. licences, Native - Reconstruct new shopfronts modelled on surviving original shopfronts in the street and derived from on-site evidence. - Do not alter street alignment. - Encourage trees to screen detracting development, particularly pos-war units (c) Car Parking and soil information, Soil There is no written record of the name of the language spoken and currently there are debates as whether the coastal peoples spoke a separate language "Eora" or whether this was actually a dialect of the Dharug language. for heritage, Protect programs, Surveys, - RetainInter-war residential development Site design by Peter Thorogood Most of the roadway is well planted with a mix of species, predominantly Simon's Poplar replacing the original Lombardy Poplars planted in 1947-8, and a mix of small rainforest trees including Tulipwood, Red Ash and Tuckeroo. Remnant bushland in places like Blackwattle Bay retain elements of traditional plant, bird and animal life, including fish and rock oysters. Despite the destructive impact of first contact, Gadigal culture survived. and heritage, Visit The topography is gently undulating, rising to St John's, falling to Bridge Road and then to the water. quality, Managing The swamp was almost always impassable. government, For schools and How long the Wangal had lived around Leichhardt is unknown, but we do know that the Dharug were living in the Sydney area for at least 10,000 years before the British invasion in 1788. species, Wildlife We’re a proud community made up of different cultures, ideologies and experiences that define us. - Encourage appropriate replacement development on detracting sites - Reinforce street end vistas with street trees protected areas, Aboriginal of protected areas, Establishing Changes in government legislation in the 1960s provided freedom of movement enabling more Aboriginal people to choose to live in Sydney. As the town of Sydney developed into a city, the Gadigal were joined by other Aboriginal people from elsewhere in New South Wales. - Retain Victorian / Federation Retail Strip vegetation, Pests - Do not allow amalgamation of sites within these important subdivisions A glebe, from the Latin 'glaeba', meaning a clod of earth, is a piece of land which has been given to the church. - Retain the e block width character of each precinct and learn, Connection - Car parking often to the front of the unit Glebe Point Road has a reasonably high degree of architectural intactness resulting from its long history of church and then government ownership at the south eastern end, the dense speculative development on the Lyndhurst Estate, and because of the strict control of the Allen family at Glebe Point. Inner West is a uniquely creative community with vibrant and diverse neighbourhoods living side-by-side in harmony. PROTECTION OF SIGNIFICANCE Click here to read An extract from “Leichhardt: on the margins of the city” by Max Solling and Peter Reynolds, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1997. Inner West Council acknowledges the prior ownership of this area by the Gadigal and Wangal peoples who were dispossessed by European invasion more than two hundred years ago.