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News - 19 June 2010 - Neighbouring house looks set for demolition [news]

Mon 21 Jun 2010 04:56:57 AM PDT | Comments: 0 |

This story from The POST newspaper suggest that owners of houses near The Cliffe are also now looking for demolition permits for homes without any plans for redevlopment....


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News - 17 May 2010 Peppermint Grove Council meeting [news]

Sat 22 May 2010 12:09:34 AM PDT | Comments: 0 |

At the Council Meeting on 17 May 2010, the Shire of Peppermint Grove provided answers to a number of questions raised about the Cliffe.  Here are the responses as published in the agenda for that meeting...

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News - 8 May 2010 - Council to meet with Creasy [news]

Fri 07 May 2010 03:41:27 PM PDT | Comments: 0 |

Today's POST Newspaper reports that the Peppermint Grove Shire Council will be meeting with Cliffe owner Mark Creasy in the next two weeks.

It will be intersteding to see what is reported at the next Council meeting on 20 May

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Don Pugh photos - Dec 2009 [album]

Sat 03 Apr 2010 05:30:19 PM PDT | Comments: 0 |
 Don Pugh photos - Dec 2009
Photos from Flickr photographer Don Pugh
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donpugh/sets/72157623265948626/

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News - 2 April 2010 - What people were saying in 1995 [news]

Thu 01 Apr 2010 04:24:42 AM PDT | Comments: 0 |

It's not very often news is this old, but recently we've been given some coies of POST articles from 1995, around the time the Cliffe was bought by the Creasys. 

All are interesting, but make sure you read the comments of architect Marcus Collins who visited the house in 1995, just after the Creasys bought it.

Here's a bit of what he had to say in July 1995....

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News - 19 February 2010 - Peppermint Grove Council back on the job [news]

Thu 18 Feb 2010 10:45:17 PM PST | Comments: 0 |

The Cliffe was back on the agenda at the Peppermint Grove Council meeting on Monday 16 Feb 2010.

Council restated its preference to retain and restore the Cliffe on site and has resolved to meet with the owner and the Heritage (...)

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News - 16 Jan 2010 - Old houses are environmentally friendly [news]

Fri 15 Jan 2010 05:55:38 PM PST | Comments: 0 |

Kate Clark , the director of the Historic Houses Trust in NSW recently wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald on the environmental impacts of destroying our old housing stock.

The Cliffe is more than just an old house, but her article argues there are more benefits in retaining old houses than simply (...)

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News - Demolition licence extended for 12 months [news]

Tue 20 Oct 2009 02:58:42 AM PDT | Comments: 0 |

The Peppermint Grove Shire Council agreed unanimously to grant Mark Creasy a 12-month extension on his existing demolition licence.

Here is an extract from the minutes of the council meeting of 14 September 2009.


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News - 17 September 2009 - Privileges Committee report [news]

Fri 18 Sep 2009 09:29:53 PM PDT | Comments: 0 |

The procedure and privileges committe handed downtheir report on 16 September, and the issue has generated a fair deal of press.  See the press report from 17 Septamver and hear the follow-up report on ABC radios' PM program

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News - 11 September - Cliffe on ABC radio's PM [news]

Mon 14 Sep 2009 04:44:53 AM PDT | Comments: 0 |

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