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landscape plan, have been subject to change over time, in terms of their extent and alignment.  However, a number of key structural elements of the landscape are extant, including:
      * The integral car park between Commonwealth Avenue and West Block – although an original entry to the car park from Queen Victoria Terrace has been closed
      * The service road between West Block and the car park – this road originally returned to Commonwealth Avenue, and was modified to a cul-de-sac in the 1980s
      * The tree-lined vista extending north of the subject site on axis with the north elevation of A Block (Figure 33)

Landscape character
North and west of West Block: There is a mixed plantation of exotic specimens to the north and west of West Block, including around the integral car park, which is now enclosed by a hedge.  There have been notable changes to the density and diversity of the plantings.  However, as described in Section 2.4.3, there is a clear correlation between the existing elements and the 1928 plan of permanent plantings (see Figure 11 and Appendix B), as well as with the photographic record of a maturing planted landscape as captured in archival photography available from the National Archives of Australia.  Surviving and reconstituted plantings maintain the spatial arrangements established in the plantings specified and laid out by Charles Weston.
East and south-east of West Block: Remnants of the indigenous woodland were retained on Mount Kurrajong and Camp Hill in the 1920s, supplemented by the planting of new native trees, shrubs and groundcovers.  Despite significant changes in this area over time, including the addition of the new Parliament House and the land bridge connecting the old and new Parliament houses across Camp Hill, this rationale endures (Figure 34).
West of West Block: The original plantings to the median strip and to either side of Commonwealth Avenue have been removed, relating to the major road works completed in the late-1980s.  However, retained Atlantic cedar trees and a Giant redwood within the inner band of planting adjacent to the car park are suggestive of the original treatment of the larger avenue.
Figure 33 Tree-lined vista extending north from A Block: view looking south to West Block
Figure 34 Native plantings to the east and south-east of West Block

Table 4 Summary of original plantings at West Block
Original element/fabric                                                                                                                                                                                        Photographs
Lombardy poplar (Populus nigra 'Italica') to the north of West Block
Arizona cypresses (Cupressus arizonica) (x4) to the north of West Block, two either side of the façade
Atlantic cedars (Cedrus atlantica) (x2) to the west side of the integral car park
White poplars (Populus alba) (x3) on Queen Victoria Terrace

Giant redwood (Sequoiadendron giganteum) (x1)