Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306:reg:84:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2021L01306
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 84 (pt 2/5)
Character Range: 141103–144270

'plinth' character. Minor asymmetry is introduced by the NFSA identifier/entry sign, and secondary driveway intersections, however these do not diminish overall symmetry at the landscape scale.

  Condition: Some over-mature and missing plantings (Hebe, Coleonema, Agapanthus). As a result of sandstone restoration work the front gardens have been impacted and need review and upgrading.

  b.     The buildings in a landscape setting (ie. open grass with scattered trees)

  Integrity: Remains somewhat evident. Construction of carparks with screening shrub plantings has introduced some interruptions to open grass context (especially the Residence lawns area and service island), however these provide benefit in terms of visual and spatial containment, and do not compromise the overall appreciation especially the southern façade. Other minor interruptions include picnic settings/shelters, bin enclosures, an artwork of placed stones, and signage, however these are minor.

  Condition: Grass is in variable condition with some denuded patches, affected by rabbit droppings and digging, worn by various uses

and possibly deteriorating as a result of a reduction to irrigation during drought periods. Some areas of thinning/dead plantings are evident, notably at the Annex Liversidge Street Lawns, the north pathway,
the eastern walkway, beneath trees and along the Liversidge Street boundary of the west carpark, at the nitrate bunker in the service island, and in the front lawns.
  c.      Enclosure aspect of the courtyard

   Integrity: Remains evident. The colonnade provides a distinctive built edge. Variable plant heights result in degrees of visual screening to/from the colonnade, however this does not affect the overall enclosure.

  Condition: Plantings are generally in excellent health in the original courtyard, with some thinning of understorey and groundcover

  plantings. The perimeter shrub plantings (Hebe) in the Annex courtyard are declining, and small areas of groundcover are deteriorating and exposing irrigation and subsided ground levels.

  d.   Remnant native vegetation (trees and native grasses)

  Integrity: Remains somewhat evident. There may have been some loss of grasses in the residence Executive Carpark Garden as a result of tightly spaced trees (conifers, deciduous, native).

  Condition: Refer Canopy Tree Experts report (February 2016).

  e.   Remnant hedges to residence to front and between residence and north carpark

  Integrity:   Remains   evident. The hedges are generally pruned to form.

  Condition: Cupressus are over- grown as a hedge and presenting open trunks at a lower level, the Cotoneaster is a weed species, the Pyracantha is a weed species and over-mature, and the Photinia is over-mature and thinning.

  f.       More intimate garden around the residence

  Integrity: Remains evident in the Residence lawns garden, provided by combinations of original hedge plantings, new hedge plantings installed as part of Annex
  building works, climbing vines and fencing, and scattered shrubs. Remains somewhat evident in the Residence Executive Carpark garden, where visual and spatial character