| House | $1,272,500  |
| Unit | $488,300  |
Surrounding suburbs
| Hawthorn | $2,343,700  |
| Richmond | $1,454,900 |
| South Yarra | $1,883,300 |
| Toorak | $2,045,700 |
| House | $820 |
| Unit | $438 |
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| Planning History: |
| Registered as Victorian heritage |
| Last updated on - January 1, 2014 Precinct statement of significance Component streets include: Bridge Road, Jackson Street, Lightfoot Street, Longfield Street, O'connell Street, Tudor Street, Vesper Street, Westbank Terrace. Statement of Significance What is significant? The site of this estate was once the Richmond Racecourse, operated by the notorious entrepreneur John Wren from 1907. Located at the eastern end of Bridge Road, it was Melbourne's principal trotting track for many years before it closed in 1932. (93) The inner suburban slum abolition campaign of The Herald newspaper and social reformer, F Oswald Barnett (94), had inspired the formation of a new State Government committee (Housing Investigation and Slum Abolition Board) to seek out inner city housing development sites for local government slum reclamation. One such site arose in 1935 when John Wren's Victorian Trotting and Racing Association informed Richmond Council that its lease on the Richmond Racecourse was due to expire the following February. Council was unable to raise the ú200,000 required to build the new housing estate so the area of the proposed estate was reduced by 10 percent and 15 of the 157 acres was sold to British Australasian Tobacco as a factory site, as a form of subsidy. The result was an estate in the English cottage style as inspired by public housing in England and seen elsewhere at the Garden City development and early Housing Commission of Victoria estates at Newport and Sunshine. There was consistent use of materials and detailing in both two storey and single storey house formats; including clinker bricks, terracotta tiles, timber framed double-hung sash windows and low brick front fences, with a communal landscape approach that united front gardens along the streets. The cul-de-sac planning was also distinctive and had been used in only a small number of estates at that time (see the AV Jennings' estate at Ivanhoe). The estate was completed in 1941. The streets were named after the trade unionist and MHR for Yarra, Frank Tudor, and Richmond Councillors O'Connell, Lightfoot, Vesper, Longfield and Jackson. (95) The properties have gradually moved from Housing Commission tenure into private ownership with approximately only half the residents being public tenants by the en |
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