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Planning Street Cards

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Unique IDAS-0533Start dateBetween 20th October 1920 and 21st October 1994Start date qualifiercircaFormatCardDescriptionThis series consists of a card index file used to access plans submitted to the Council for approval as part of Building Application (BA) and Development Application (DA) proposals.

Each card contains information about the BA and DA proposals submitted for one street address. The entries are in chronological order with BA information on one side of each card and DA information on the other. Each entry usually consists of the date the application was lodged with the Council, the name of the applicant (usually the architect or contractor rather than the property owner), brief details of the work proposed, and a reference number to the plans (rarely, a file number in the contemporary central subject/correspondence file series). The reference number for BA proposals can also be used to trace the relevant entry in the BA Registers, which give somewhat fuller information about the BA. This can be useful if the plans themselves are no longer extant.

Most of the cards for the period up to 1928 were extracted and kept as a separate series (see AS-0710) at some time before 1991. However, some were missed, mostly in cases where they formed they form part of an ongoing sequence of cards for a property continuing after 1928 and it was not thought desirable to split the BA/DA history between two card series.

In 1968 the contents of this series that related to areas transferred to other Councils were extracted and handed over to these Councils: Leichhardt (for Glebe cards 1949-1968), Marrickville (for Camperdown 1929-1968 and Newtown east of King St 1949-1968), and Woollahra (for Paddington east of about Boundary Rd 1949-1968), and South Sydney Municipal Council (SSMC), for the remainder of Newtown, and also Erskineville, Darlington, Alexandria, Redfern and Waterloo).

When SSMC was reintegrated with the City in 1981 the latter cards returned (as part of the SSMC street cards system 1968-81) but were again handed over to the new South Sydney City Council (SSCC) in 1988-1989, along with cards from CRS 533 created for the SSCC area by the City Council since 1981. A small number of cards that should have been transferred to SSMC or SSCC were accidentally omitted and remain in the series. The cards that were transferred to SSCC were lost. Only the microfilm remains.

It is unclear when this series was transcribed onto the cards, probably from an earlier card system, but it seems most likely that it took place after about 1950. DA proposals date only from the period after 1945 and the cards are mostly pre-printed to allow for recording of DA information. The practice of re-writing and consolidating entries for major properties, especially those where site consolidation and redevelopment took place, continued. This seems to have been done in order to clarify matters where a confusing plethora of proposals was involved, and in order to preserve information when the cards became worn and damaged through use.

In the late 1970s the Council implemented a computer system (PLANES) to manager geographically referenced information. Part of PLANES was the DABA system intended to supersede the Street Cards, and information back to about 1971 (but apparently incomplete) was transferred to it. However the Street cards continued to be used as an active reference tool by officers of the Planning unit until 1996 when the series was transferred to Archives and microfilmed. New information continued to be added (but not systematically) until 1994. It seems probable that the microfilm (and sometimes the cards) will continue to be accessed by Planning officers in the future.Relationship summaryCONTROLLED BY: Development Application Registers AS-0311 (01/01/1954 to 31/12/1993)
CONTROLLED BY: Building Application Registers AS-0122 (21/04/1928 to 31/12/1993)
CREATED BY: South Sydney City Council Planning and Building Department AG-0032 (01/01/1989)
CREATED BY: South Sydney Municipal Council Health and Building Department AG-0018 (01/01/1981 to 01/01/1981)
CREATED BY: South Sydney Municipal Council Planning and Building Department AG-0024 (01/01/1975 to 01/01/1981)
CREATED BY: South Sydney Municipal Council Development and Building Department AG-0025 (01/01/1974 to 01/01/1975)
CREATED BY: South Sydney Municipal Council Town Planning and Development Department AG-0021 (01/01/1968 to 01/01/1974)
CREATED BY: Planning and Building Department AG-0008 (01/01/1971 to 01/01/1994)
CREATED BY: City Architect and Building Surveyors Department II AG-0016 (01/01/1936 to 01/01/1971)
CREATED BY: City Engineering and Building Surveyors Department AG-0061 (01/01/1929 to 01/01/1936)
PRECEDED BY: Old Planning Street Cards AS-0710 (01/01/1928)
RELATED TO: South Sydney Municipal Council Health and Building Miscellaneous Register AS-0750 (01/01/1969 to 31/12/1981)
RELATED TO: Records and archives management AY-68 (01/01/1928 to 01/01/1994)
RELATED TO: Development applications inspection and approval AY-29 (01/01/1928 to 01/01/1994)
RELATED TO: Building applications inspection and approval AY-28 (11/01/1928 to 01/01/1994) LanguageEnglish (eng)

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Planning Street Cards - 647-759 Botany Road, Alexandria/Waterloo/Rosebery

Planning Street Cards - 529-646 Botany Road, Alexandria/Waterloo/Rosebery

Planning Street Cards - 442-528 Botany Road, Alexandria/Beaconsfield

Planning Street Cards - 300-400 Botany Road, Alexandria/Waterloo

Planning Street Cards - 170-297 Botany Road, Alexandria/Waterloo

Planning Street Cards - 90-170 Botany Road, Alexandria/Waterloo

Planning Street Cards - Birmingham Street, Alexandria

Planning Street Cards - Belmont Street, Alexandria

Planning Street Cards - 343-378 Belmont Street, Alexandria

Planning Street Cards - 297-340 Belmont Street, Alexandria

Planning Street Cards - 185-296 Belmont Street, Alexandria

Planning Street Cards - Barwon Park Road, Alexandria

Planning Street Cards - Anderson Street, Alexandria

Planning Street Cards - Alexander Street, Alexandria/Paddington

Planning Street Cards - Tilford Street, Zetland

Planning Street Cards - Portman Street, Zetland

Planning Street Cards - Portman Lane, Zetland

Planning Street Cards - Merton Street, Zetland

Planning Street Cards - Mcpherson Lane, Zetland

Planning Street Cards - Link Road, Zetland

Planning Street Cards - Joynton Avenue, Zetland

Planning Street Cards - Hansard Street, Zetland

Planning Street Cards - Epsom Road, Zetland/Rosebery

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CSA069206

CSA044689

CSA044688

CSA044687

CSA044686

CSA044685

CSA044684

CSA044683

CSA044682

CSA044681

CSA044680

CSA044679

CSA044678

CSA044677

CSA044676

CSA044675

CSA044674

CSA044673

CSA044672

Series

Glebe Planning Street Cards

Leichhardt Building and Development Application Cards (Glebe)

Old Planning Street Cards

City Building Surveyors Miscellaneous Files

Development Application Registers [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Building Application Registers [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Interim Development Application Files

City Building Surveyor's Department Correspondence Files

Building Inspectors' Cards

Development Application Plans [City of Sydney / South Sydney Municipal Council]

Building Application (BA) Plans [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

Central Activity Files

Miscellaneous Files [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Interim Development Application Files [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Development Application Files [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Building Application Plans [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Building Application Files [South Sydney Municipal Council]

Building Application Files [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]

Access

Public access statusRestrictedPublic access noteAccess Notes:Access normally by microfiche copy at Archives or Planning unit. Access to original cards will be granted only when necessary to retrieve details not clear from the copy.
Restriction Category:[a] Fragile or undergoing conservation treatment

Identification and Arrangement

Source system ID533System of arrangementAlphabetical by street name, than numerical by property/street number, then BA or DA sequence, than chronological by dates of applications

Relationships

Controlled by seriesBuilding Application Registers [Municipal Council of Sydney / City of Sydney]Development Application RegistersPreceding seriesOld Planning Street CardsRelated seriesSouth Sydney Municipal Council Health and Building Miscellaneous RegisterCreating agenciesCity Engineering and Building Surveyor's DepartmentCity Architect and Building Surveyor's Department IIPlanning and Building DepartmentSouth Sydney Municipal Council Town Planning and Development DepartmentSouth Sydney Municipal Council Development and Building DepartmentSouth Sydney Municipal Council Planning and Building DepartmentSouth Sydney Municipal Council Health and Building DepartmentSouth Sydney City Council Planning and Building DepartmentRelated activitiesBuilding applications inspection and approvalDevelopment applications inspection and approvalRecords and archives management

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