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Proposed
Redevelopment of the Beaumaris Hotel
Rejected
by Bayside
City Council

BCS
Inc. objected to a 3rd storey & the
huge underground car park. Neither would
be
needed if the apartments were limited to
eleven & the two-storey dwellings
limited to nine.

See BCS Inc.
letter

of objection to Bayside
City Council.

MOTION

CARRIED AT BAYSIDE COUNCIL GENERAL
COMMITTEE MEETING OF 20TH JUNE 2005 (See Item 127)

Moved Cr Wilson Seconded Cr Dwyer

1. That the
report on combined Amendment C42 to the Bayside Planning
Scheme and planning application 04/0681 with
respect to 472 Beach Road, Beaumaris and
submissions received in response to
exhibition be received.
2. That having considered the submissions
received that Council resolve to abandon
Amendment C42 to the Bayside
Planning Scheme.
3. That Council note and advise the
applicant that the development proposed by
application 04/0681 is prohibited under the
provisions of Design and Development Overlay
1 of the Bayside
Planning Scheme as its breaches the height
limits as set out in that overlay.
4. That the applicant and all submitters be
advised accordingly.
The MOTION was PUT and a divISION was
called.
divISION FOR: Crs Carroll,
del Porto,
Ryan, McLorinan,
Wilson,
Dwyer, Andrews & Tucker (8) AGAINST: Cr
Beadle (1) CARRIED

Click here
to see a photograph of the
Beaumaris Hotel, as seen from the coastal
reserve here, c.1950, after its two
Mansard roofs had been removed, but before
its attractive iron lace decoration, and
front fences and box hedges, had been
removed and 1960s’ accretions added. Page 15
of a pre-1926 promotional brochure for the
Deauville Estate shows a photograph with
the Mansard roofs in place.

A May 2005 planning
application, including a Planning
Scheme Amendment C42, seeks
conversion from a hotel to 16
apartments, 18 two-storey dwellings
on the hotel car parks, and underground
parking for 75 cars, with
restoration of the original third storey
Mansard roofs and Victorian era facades. The hotel land,
except for the car park on the other side
of Bodley
Street, has
Heritage
Overlay HO66 on the Bayside Planning Scheme.

The building has
stood on the south-west corner of Bodley Street
and Beach Road,
since the 1880s Land Boom. Its foundation
stone, as the Great Southern Hotel, was officially

laid in 1888 in the
presence of the President of the local
municipality, the Shire of Moorabbin, the
Hon. Thomas Bent MLA,
who later became Premier of Victoria.

‘Early
Morning Beaumaris’ – Clarice
Beckett

A view
from Bodley
Street, alongside the Beaumaris Hotel,
looking over Beaumaris Bay

Oil on canvas  440 x 660 mm  Signed c. 1925

Reproduced
with permission from Ms Rosalind Hollinrake from
her book
‘Clarice
Beckett – The Artist and Her Circle’, which is Copyright

1979 Rosalind Hollinrake.

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