South Sydney Municipal Council Town Planning and Development Department

Unique IDAG-0021DescriptionThe first meeting of what was then the Northcott Municipal Council on 1 August 1968 established the Town Planning and Development Department. Its responsibilities embraced the long standing local government activity of supervising local development and building, and the relatively new responsibility of town planning. The department was located in Waterloo Town Hall (the central administration of the Council was in Alexandria Town Hall).

Early in 1969 Mr Richard Orr, a qualified town planner, was appointed Director of the Department. In April, Mr J Kenny was appointed Deputy Director.

The department inherited a large volume of planning and development records from the Sydney City Council, as well as having to manage the increasing volume of records generated by its own activities. The building boom which took off in the late 1960s and early 1970s placed the Department's limited resources under great strain. The physical separation from the central administration exacerbated its problems by throwing the department entirely on its own resources.

In recognition, in part, of these difficulties, Council on 17 April 1974, resolved to relieve the Director of the duties relating to routine processing of building and development applications. His title became Director of Forward Town Planning to reflect the increased emphasis on the town planning function.

On 5 June 1974, Council completed the reorganisation by abolishing the Town Planning and Development Department and establishing the two Departments of Forward Town Planning and Development and Building Departments.

Sources: CRS 58, Minutes of Council; CRS 87, File 916/20.CreationLocal Government (City of Sydney Boundaries) Act, 1967AbolitionResolution of Council 5 June 1974

Series

South Sydney Municipal Council Health and Building Miscellaneous Register

South Sydney Municipal Council Notice Register

Planning Street Cards

Development Application Registers [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Building Application Registers [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Development Application Plans, 1969-1999 [City of Sydney / South Sydney Municipal Council]

Miscellaneous Files, 1969-1981 [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Development Application Files, 1952-1981 [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Building Application Plans, 1968-1984 [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Building Application Files, 1946-1981 [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Agency

South Sydney Municipal Council Development and Building Department

South Sydney Municipal Council Forward Town Planning Department I

Description

Start date1st August 1968End date5th June 1974Relationship legacy dataPRECEDED BY: City Architect and Building Surveyors Department II AG-0016 (01/08/1968)
RELATED TO: South Sydney Municipal Council OR-0011 (01/08/1968 to 05/06/1974)
RELATED TO: Building and development regulation FN-0010 (01/08/1968 to 05/06/1974)
RELATED TO: Town planning FN-0011 (01/08/1968 to 05/06/1974)
Source System ID21

Relationships

Preceding agenciesCity Architect and Building Surveyor's Department IIOrganisationSouth Sydney Municipal CouncilRelated functionsTown planningBuilding and development regulation

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