Council Responds to Heritage Submission
Ongoing Projects

Council Responds to Heritage Submission

We submitted to Council’s review of the Qualified State Interest Amendment-Heritage back in June, supporting the proposed protection of five properties in Salisbury (including the factory at 11 Engineering Road) and six Dutch Houses in Coopers Plains behind St Thomas Moore College. We called for protection of two much better and original examples on McKoy Street and Macdevitt Street that are more accessible, but this was rejected. The proposed protections now go to the State government for approval.

This aerial photo of the former Rocklea Munitions Works Laboratory at 21 Engineering Street, Salisbury, shows the heritage protected part of the building, which is all that remains of it now. The extensions on the western side have been demolished. Image from Brisbane Heritage Trails.

Ongoing projects:

• Composition of a publication of the Origins of Coopers Plains from before British settlement (Moreton Bay Penal Colony) to promote Coopers Plains as the first crossroads of Brisbane.
• Plaques in Salisbury about the WWII Munitions Works, specifically the corner of Evans Road and Project Street in front of the still extant South Guard House. Also, recognition of the nearby former Rocklea Munitions Works Laboratory, the only building with an exterior design flair (aerial image above) in the munitions area. Cr Griffiths’ support to be procured.

Events

Coopers Plains History Group Monthly Meeting

Saturday 18th of January at 4pm
Coopers Plains Library Meeting Room (at the back)

All welcome. Please RSVP by commenting on this post below (if you can’t see the comment field, click the heading above).  Thanks to the friendly and helpful staff of the Coopers Plains Library for printing out these newsletters and offering them to anyone who wants to keep in touch without going online. The Coopers Plains Library Meeting Room is booked every 3rd Saturday at 4pm for us to meet.