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• Mayor’sMessage• MessagefromtheChair• StrategicPlanningNews• DevelopmentNews• BuildingNews• IndigenousCulturalHeritage

• UpdatedFloodMeasuresProposed

• StaffProfile-GarthMoore• StaffProfile-JaneKilgour• RipleyDevelopmentCommences

• CongratulationsRoss• ImportantPeopleinIpswich’sHistory

• PictureIpswich• PregnancyClubUpdate• WhenTelevisionCametoIpswich

• WhenLifewasSimple• LocalHeritageSeminars• TriviaQuestion• MainContacts

FourNewSchoolsforIpswichCouncil has recently been advised by the Department of Education, Training and Employment that the contract has been awarded to ‘Plenary Schools’ as the consortium to deliver a package of 10 new schools in South East Queensland via a Public Private Partnership (PPP). This program is commonly referred to as the Schools PPP Project.

The package that Plenary Schools is required to deliver consists of eight

Prep - Year 6 primary schools and two Years 7 - 12 secondary schools in rapidly developing areas in South East Queensland (ie Gold Coast, Ipswich and the Moreton Bay local government areas).

Under the PPP agreement, the consortium will design, construct, commission, finance, maintain and provide facilities management for the services for the package of schools over a concession period of 30 years.

Four out of the 10 schools that are planned to be delivered are to be located in Ipswich. The selected areas comprise:

• 1 Primary School (Prep - Year 6) located within the Sovereign Pocket Estate at Deebing Heights;

• 1 Primary School (Prep - Year 6) located within the Fernbrooke Ridge Estate at South Redbank Plains;

• 1 Primary School (Prep - Year 6) to be located at Spring Mountain (Springfield Estate);

• 1 Secondary School (Years 7 - 12) located at Jones Road, Bellbird Park within the Brentwood Forest Estate.

To facilitate the development of these schools, the Queensland Government has announced that it intends to undertake a Community Infrastructure Designation (CID) process for each school.

Council will continue to work closely with the relevant stakeholders in order to support the CID process so as to ensure appropriate outcomes for the community.

PlanningandDevelopmentUpdate

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This edition of the Planning and Development Department newsletter provides updates about:

• the Ebenezer Regional Industrial Area Planning Study;

• Council’s new Public Art Policy;

• the Planning Scheme minor amendments package 01/2014; and

• proposed amendments to Planning Scheme Policy 3 - General Works and the Flooding Regulations.

Our interesting historical information continues, with articles about:

• George Thorn - the ‘Father of Ipswich’;

• when television came to Ipswich; and

• when life was simple in Ipswich, during the 1940s and 1950s.

There are staff profiles about Garth Moore (Strategic Planning) and Jane Kilgour (Environmental Planning). It is a pleasure to welcome Garth back after 4 years away in consultancy and at Lockyer Valley Regional Council.

The ‘pregnancy club’ tally is getting close to 40. When will it stop?

Councillor Paul TullyChairperson - Planning andDevelopment Committee

As testament to the amount of development that is occurring in Ipswich at present, the Queensland Government is proposing to build 4 of the 10 new schools earmarked for South East Queensland within the Ipswich Local Government area.

I suggest that you read the ‘Development News’ section on Pages 4 and 5 of this newsletter to get a feel for the depth and breadth of development that is occurring in Ipswich.

I would also like to acknowledge the work of one of our great Planning and Development staff - Ross Elliott, who was recently named ‘Citizen of the Year’. Ross has served the Ipswich community for over 40 years in his paid capacity as an Ipswich City Council officer and as a volunteer for the local SES unit.

Ipswich is open for business and I encourage you to contact me via emailppisasale@ipswich.qld.gov.au to discuss how you can prosper by investing in our great city.

Mayor Paul PisasaleCity of Ipswich

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Ice and Butter Factory, 9 The Terrace, North Ipswich ca1900 Source: Picture Ipswich Ipswich Railway Station,

Union Street, Ipswich 1977 Source: Picture Ipswich

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On 3 December 2013, Council resolved to adopt Draft Implementation Guideline No.32 – Ebenezer Regional Industrial Area Planning Study for the purpose of consulting with land owners in the study area. The South East Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 identifies Ebenezer as a ‘Regional Development Area’ and a ‘Regionally Significant Employment Area’, with the Ebenezer Regional Industrial Area (ERIA) first being nominated as an industry investigation area in 1993 in the former Moreton Shire Draft Strategic Plan.

Since 2004, the Ipswich Planning Scheme has included the ERIA predominantly in the Regional Business and Industry Investigation Zone bounded by an area included in the Regional Business and Industry Buffer Zone. The Guideline has been produced to clarify Council’s planning intent for the ERIA at both a strategic scale (Land Use Concept Master Plan) and an ‘area specific’ scale (Planning Units) and sets out the broad land use, environmental and infrastructure framework to achieve coordinated and integrated development outcomes.

The period for making submissions closed on 14 February 2014, with feedback from landowners to be considered by Council prior to final adoption of the guideline.

Following adoption by Council on 3 December 2013, Implementation Guideline No.31 - Public Art Provision for Major Developments came into force and effect from 9 December 2013. Public art has many community benefits, notably building civic pride through visual means and celebrating community values and diversity as well as also providing benefits to building owners by creating attractions and activating the usage of the buildings and adjacent public areas.

Major development includes shopping complexes, commercial / office buildings, sports stadium, performing arts complex, hospitals, hotels, or mixed use developments that incorporate any of the above uses and

that have a gross floor area of 6000m² or greater. There are many definitions of public art but for the purpose of the proposed guideline it is defined as permanent art works inspired by local history, events, memories or the landscape.

The guideline requires the public art to normally be provided on site to the equivalent of 1% of the certified construction cost, or the contribution of an equivalent monetary sum where agreed by Council for the provision of public art in the general vicinity of the development. The guideline also contains information regarding the processes to be followed from the development application pre-lodgement stage through to installation of the art work.

At its meeting on 31 January 2014, Council proposed amendments to Planning Scheme Policy 3 – General Works. The proposed amendments relate to:• inclusion of detailed technical

requirements that will be referenced in development conditions in relation to traffic signals, bus stops and shelters, vegetation rehabilitation and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) devices to reduce the length and complexity of the conditions;

• deletion of the water and sewer standards as they have been replaced by the SEQ Water Code that is applied through a statutory head of power rather than the planning scheme;

• applying minimum Level III in QUDM for inter-allotment drainage;

• including reference to Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) technical publications, such as those produced by Water by Design (Healthy Waterways);

• introducing updated standards for streetscape, fauna and bushland management;

• increasing the bonding percentages for natural infrastructure as this infrastructure is prone to severe loss during the establishment and maintenance period; and

• introducing road construction tolerances.

Consultation on the proposed amendments will close at 4.30pm, 13 March 2014. Further information is available on Council’s website at www.ipswichplanning.com.au/projects

Council adopted Minor Amendment Package 01/2014 at its meeting on 31 January 2014. These amendments came into force and effect on 14 February 2014 and include:• referencing the proposed

Norman Street Bridge and Jacaranda Street Extension transport corridor in Strategy Map 2 Urban Areas, Figure 5-4 Indicative Strategic Network Map, Figure 5-5 Pedestrian / Cycle Network, Schedule 7 – Key Reference Maps 4a and 4b and Planning Scheme Policy 5 Map 5.2 - Future Roads Infrastructure;

• permanently entering the gum-topped box tree (Eucalyptus moluccana) located at the intersection of Alice Street and Spalding Crescent, Goodna and the forest red gum tree (Eucalyptus tereticornis) located southeast of a bridge over the Western Creek, and between the Western Creek watercourse and the Gipps Street road reserve, Calvert as Character Places in Schedule 2 – Character Places; and

• providing clarification in interpreting Schedule 9 – Exempt Advertising Devices.

For further information regarding any of the above, please contact the Strategic Planning Branch on 3810 6251.

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Commercial / Industrial Uses

A wide range and diversity of development applications have been processed since the last Newsletter.

Further information regarding these applications can be accessed via Council’s web site and following the links to PD Online. When prompted, insert the application reference number which appears below (eg DA 1234/10).

• Demolition/Removal of a Character Place, Shopping Centre (Tenancy A: Bulky goods sales, Tenancy B: Bulky goods sales, office, shop and Veterinary Clinic) and Advertising Device at 171 Brisbane Road, Booval

(DA 1478/13)• Services Trades Use (Warehouse

and Storage) and Signage at Hoepner Road, Bundamba

(DA 2175/13)• Business Use (Extension to

Vehicle Sales Premises) and Advertising Device at 26 Brisbane Road, Bundamba (DA 2372/13)

• Business Use (Bulky Goods sales, Garden Centre, Ancillary Café and Shop and Office) at 6C Agnes Street, Bundamba (DA 4296/12)

• Carwash at 56 Robertson Road, Eastern Heights(DA 6244/12)

• 24 Hour Gym at 16A Lowry Street, North Ipswich (DA 3380/13)

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Residential Uses• Material Change of Use – Single

Residential on lots less than 450m² and Reconfiguration of a Lot – 1 lot into 99 lots at Cedar Road, Redbank Plains (DA 856/13)

• Material Change of Use – Single Residential within a Development Constraints Overlay and Reconfiguration of a Lot – 1 Lot into 15 Lots at Cedar Road, Redbank Plains (DA 4187/13)

• Material Change of Use – Single Residential on lots less than 450m² and Reconfiguration of a Lot – 1 Lot into 24 Lots at Fernbrooke Boulevard, Redbank Plains (DA 4684/13)

• Multiple Residential (37) units at Cedar Road, Redbank Plains

(DA 845/13)• Dual Occupancy at 1 Alexandra

Street, Booval (DA 4129/13)• Extension to Multiple Residential

Development – Nursing Home (15 Nursing units and ancillary consulting, training and resource rooms) at 100 Holdsworth Road, North Ipswich (DA 4174/13)

• Retail, Office and Ancillary Storage at 27 Downs Street, North Ipswich (DA 3961/13)

• Neighbourhood Shopping Centre and 7 Advertising Structures at 51-65 Springfield Parkway, Springfield (DA 1044/13)

• Area Development Plan – Orion Bunnings at 1 Main Street, Springfield Central (DA 3541/13)

• Shopping Centre - Orion Stage 2B at 1 Main Street, Springfield Central (DA 3583/13)

• Shopping Centre – Orion Stage 3 at 1 Main Street,

Springfield Central (DA 4360/13)• Strata Development at

Technology Drive, Augustine Heights (DA 4507/13)

• General Industry – Freight Depot at 19 Byers Court, Redbank

(DA 1428/13)• General Industry at 27 General

MacArthur Place, Redbank (DA 5285/13)• Warehouse at 91 Smith Street,

Redbank (DA 5385/13)• General Industry at 20 General

MacArthur Place, Redbank (DA 5418/13)• Warehouse at 114 Mica Street,

Carole Park (DA 5863/13)• Business Use – Produce/craft

market, shopping centre and Multiple Residential (28 units) at 13 Ellenborough Street, Ipswich (DA 2187/12)

• Service/Trades Use – Storage Facility at 43 Southern Amberley Road, Amberley (DA 908/13)

• Special Industry – Landfill at Lot 5 Unnamed Road, Swanbank

(DA 1470/13)• Business Use – Bulky Goods Sales

at 272 Brisbane Street, West Ipswich (DA 2062/13)

• Extension to Special Industry – Gas fired power station at 66-114 Blackheath Road, Swanbank

(DA 2156/13)• Medical Centre at 33 Thorn

Street, Ipswich (DA 2957/13)• Medical Centre and Office at Lot 5 Chelmsford Avenue, Ipswich

(DA 3530/13)• Tattoo Shop at 205 Brisbane

Street, Ipswich (DA 4159/13)• Building work not associated

with a Material Change of Use (Refurbishment of Existing Service Station) at 2282 Cunningham Highway, Purga (DA 5939/13)

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• Educational Establishment – USQ Edgy Building at Lot 511 Sinnathamby Boulevard, Springfield Central (DA 3487/13)

• Place of Public Worship at 1-11 Springfield College Drive, Springfield (DA 4372/13)

Community Uses

• Advertising Device at 246 Brisbane Road, Booval

(DA 4992/13)• Advertising Device at 100

Hoepner Road, Bundamba (DA 5024/13)• Advertising Device at 6 The

Terrace, North Ipswich (DA 5222/13)• Advertising Device at 319-321

Redbank Plains Road, Redbank Plains (DA 5294/13)

• Advertising Device at 26 Brisbane Road, Dinmore (DA 5403/13)

• Advertising Device at 259-277 Mt Crosby Road, Karalee

(DA 6059/13)• Advertising Device at 1495

Warrego Highway, Blacksoil (DA 3309/13)• Advertising Device at 100 Chum

Street, New Chum (DA 4395/13)• Advertising Device at 187

Grampian Drive, Deebing Heights (DA 4708/13)

• Advertising Devices – 2 Illuminated wall signs and 1 illuminated awning sign at 31 Challinor Street, Sadliers Crossing (DA 5246/13)

• Advertising Device and Alteration to Character Premises at 1/86 Brisbane Street, Ipswich

(DA 5252/13)

Other

• Dual Occupancy at 5 Walden Street, Redbank Plains

(DA 4385/13)• Dual Occupancy at 21 Russell

Drive, Redbank Plains (DA 4633/13)• Dual Occupancy at 58 School

Road, Redbank Plains (DA 4836/13)• Dual Occupancy at 28 Littleford

Circuit, Bundamba (DA 5693/13)• Dual Occupancy at 50 Russell

Drive, Redbank Plains (DA 5836/13)• Permissible Change at Cedar

Road, Redbank Plains (DA 2677/08/MA/B)• Permissible Change at 6 Cheihk

Crescent, Collingwood Park (DA 5806/10/MA/A)• Permissible Change at

Knightsbridge Drive, Chuwar (DA 3969/05/MA/B)• Reconfiguration of a Lot - 1 Lot

into 2 Lots at 41 Cudgee Street, Redbank Plains

(DA 5320/13)• Reconfiguration of a Lot - 1 Lot

into 2 Lots at 10 Wyman Street, Brassall (DA 5604/13)

• Reconfiguration of a Lot - 1 Lot into 2 Lots at 24 Holterman Crescent, Redbank Plains

(DA 5729/13)• Springview Village 1 Precinct

Plan at Lot 42 Old Logan Road, Springfield (DA 590/12)

• Area Development Plan (43 Lots) at Oakmoss Drive, Springfield Lakes (DA 4433/13)

• Material Change of Use – 3 Dual Occupancy and Reconfiguration of a Lot – 2 Lots into 14 Lots at 19-21 Harry Street, Bellbird Park (DA 3874/13)

• Brentwood Forest Stages 18 and 19 (76 Lots) at Ventura Way, Bellbird Park (DA 3922/13)

• Material Change of Use – Detached Housing <450m² and Reconfiguration of a Lot – 2 Lots into 40 Lots, Tea Trees Estate 18 and 20 Oakmoss Drive, Springfield Lakes (DA 5876/13)

• 1 Lot into 24 Lots at 107 Jones

Road, Bellbird Park (DA 2590/13)• Area Development Plan (73 Lots)

Brookwater Stage 10 at 2 Pardalote Drive, Brookwater (DA 4442/13)• Reconfiguration of a Lot - 6

Lots into 6 Lots at Lot 101 Berry Street, Churchill (DA 3329/12)

• Dual Occupancy at 9 Fair Street, One Mile (DA 4382/13)

• Dual Occupancy at 25 Chalk Street, Leichhardt (DA 4391/13)

• Business Use – Display Dwelling at 1 Dee Street, Deebing Heights (DA 4858/13)

• Single Residential in a Character Area (Relocated house) at

135 Edmond Street, Marburg (DA 6073/13)• Reconfiguration of a Lot - 2 lots

into 61 lots at 42-50 Henry Street, Brassall (DA 1276/13)

• Boundary Realignment – 3 lots into 3 lots at 771-825 Rosewood Warrill View Road, Lower Mount Walker (DA 3581/13)

• Reconfiguration of a Lot - 1 Lot into 2 Lots at 9 Equestrian Drive, Yamanto (DA 5659/13)

• Extension to Educational Establishment at 68 Springfield Greenbank Arterial, Springfield (DA 5229/13)

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BuildingNews

Swimming pools are a fun way to cool down over summer and are popular with families, however, with drowning one of the leading causes of death for Queensland children under five, safe practices and preventative measures will help ensure your family’s safety.

Supervising young children and teaching them to swim at a young age is one of the ways to prevent accidental drowning, as well as having an effective and compliant pool fence.

The Act’s definition of swimming pools includes spa pools and spa baths continually filled with a water depth of more than 300 millimetres. When purchasing a swimming pool, whether it is an above ground or portable pool, owners should be mindful of their obligations to install a compliant pool fence.

Pool safety laws require pool owners to construct and maintain a compliant pool fence around their swimming

pool, regardless of when the pool was installed. Under the current laws, pool owners have until 30 November 2015 to meet the current pool safety standard, or earlier if they sell or lease their property.

It is also the pool owners responsibility to register their pool on the Queensland Pool Safety Register which can be found at www.hpw.qld.gov.au

Pool owners can engage a licensed private pool safety inspector, building certifier or contact Council to undertake a pool safety inspection. Visit www.ipswich.qld.gov.au and refer to Council’s fees and charges for more details.

For more information about pool safety laws, visitwww.hpw.qld.gov.au or phone the Pool Safety Council on 1800 340 634.

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As of 6 February 2014, a new advice clause will be incorporated into relevant development approvals reminding applicants of their indigenous cultural heritage obligations.

The advice is to be incorporated to remind applicants to ensure that any development obligations pursuant to the provisions of the Aboriginal

Cultural Heritage Act 2003, the Sustainable Planning Act 2009 and the Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009 are complied with in respect to their proposed development.

All applicants, developers and landowners have a duty of care under the relevant legislation where items of cultural heritage significance are located, even if those items have not been previously recorded in a database.

For more information, the applicant may seek information from the Registered Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Body for the Ipswich Region (Jagera Daran Pty Ltd), the cultural heritage database, or seek the advice of the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Multicultural Affairs.

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Changes to the Ipswich Planning Scheme proposed by Councill will update and further improve the interim flood regulation measures adopted following the 2011 floods and make them permanent.

Planning and Development Committee Chair, Councillor Paul Tully, said the move would bring certainty for property owners in flood prone areas imposing stronger controls to limit residential development.

“Immediately following the 2011 floods, Council moved swiftly to introduce a Temporary Local Planning Instrument (TLPI) that implemented guidelines for development that better managed the risks from future floods”, Cr Tully said.

“Using the highest of the 1974, 2011 and modelled 1 in 100 flood level, any development proposed below this line automatically triggers greater design regulation that ensures adequate measures have been taken to minimise flood impact on property.”

“It also limits residential development below the flood line. The approach adopted in the TLPI was endorsed by the Queensland Floods Commission

ahead of a comprehensive flood study being prepared for the Brisbane and Bremer Rivers, which is currently expected to be finalised at the end of 2015.”

“This TLPI has served the city well and will remain in effect during the

Permanent Flood Regulation Measures Proposed

UpdatedFloodMeasuresProposedamendment process. Following Ministerial approval, the proposed amendments to the planning scheme will be subject to community consultation prior to their formal adoption.”

Brisbane Street, Ipswich, during the 1974 Flood Source: Picture Ipswich

East Street, Ipswich, during the 1974 Flood Source: Picture Ipswich

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StaffProfile-GarthMoore

Jane Kilgour is the Team Coordinator (Environment) in the Engineering and Environment Branch. After completing her Bachelor of Science (Environment) at Griffith University

Jane worked for over 5 years in the private industry for mining companies before commencing her 15 year and counting career in local government.

Jane commenced her appointment with Ipswich in 2004 as Senior Environmental Planner when Ipswich was experiencing a major development boom and was the first environment officer within the department. An additional environmental planner was soon added to the department and over the next few years these environment officers worked on development applications, legislative changes and planning studies generally raising the

StaffProfile-JaneKilgour

Garth Moore started his career in planning in Redlands with Gary White in 1984. Since that auspicious introduction to planning Garth spent two and a half years in Brisbane City Council. He then had a stint at private practice in Noosa and in 1989 joined Ipswich City Council with Graham Blowers and John Adams. There began a long and fruitful relationship producing a broad spectrum of innovative and award winning planning projects.

After a relatively short time away, Garth has come back to the ICC family.

During 28 years of practice as a professional planner, both as a consultant planner in the private sector and town planner with local

government, he has been involved in a vast array of development applications. These have ranged in complexity from relatively straight forward reconfigurations to highly complex application for shopping centres and tourism resorts.

Garth has been actively engaged in the development of several planning schemes under the Local Government Act, IPA and SPA. He will be assisting the production of our new scheme under the Planning for Queensland’s Development Act. Garth brings:

• a passion for developing well-articulated and responsive planning scheme documents;

• over 28 years of implementing planning and process improvements to local government planning instruments;

• planning, urban design, cultural heritage and environmental management skills;

• a robust project management methodology that is underpinned by a collaborative approach promoting stakeholder

engagement and ownership of planning scheme documents from the onset; and

• a dedicated commitment to and passion to deliver robust and responsive planning documents that are easy to use and understand, are compliant with existing and evolving planning legislation and are a planning tool that Ipswich City Council and our team can be proud of.

Garth has a BSc in Australian Environmental Studies, a Grad Dip in Urban and Regional Planning and Grad Dip in Urban Design. He is a corporate member of PIA and was inducted as a Fellow of PIA in 2011.

Garth has had the pleasure with his wife Libby to have raised his family of two girls (Christine and Tess) and have resided in the Ipswich area for over 24 years. He says that he has an intimate knowledge, respect and love of this great City.

profile of environment issues within planning.

Following her appointment to Team Coordinator in 2008 Jane has been involved in the selection and training of team members resulting in a dynamic team of 3 environmental planners and 2 environmental health officers. Jane has enjoyed the challenge of expanding her professional knowledge in environmental health but planning for the environment remains her central motivation.

Jane enjoys camping on Fraser Island and spending time with her family and friends drinking champagne.

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CongratulationsRoss

The tireless work of Ross Elliott at the forefront of any local disaster has been recognised in the Australia Day Awards.

Ross was named at the “Citizen of the Year” for the role he has played since the 1970s with the Ipswich State Emergency Service (SES) Unit.

Mayor Paul Pisasale said it was wonderful to be able to recognise Ross as he was one of only two serving SES members who assisted Ipswich during the city’s two big floods in both 1974 and 2011.

Ross has given 40 years of service to both the Ipswich SES Unit and Ipswich City Council.

“In addition to his involvement in the two major floods, he has seen many other milestones,” Cr Pisasale said.

“Ross was instrumental in the initial set up of the Ipswich SES site, has tarped many a roof following storm damage and has participated in numerous search and rescue operations. This included being part

of the headquarters team conducting a large scale land search involving more than 1,000 people for a missing bike rider.”

“Ross has participated in many hair raising rescues on the Brisbane and Bremer Rivers.”

Cr Pisasale said that in addition to his SES service, Ross has also worked for the local government for 40 years, starting at Moreton Shire Council in 1973 as a cashier.

“In 1983, Ross became part of the Ipswich City Council planning team and still holds a position in the same department today as a Senior Technical Support Officer.”

The first new land sales office within the Ripley Valley Priority Development Area is now under construction.

Sekisui House has confirmed that their development is to be officially launched in May with the first 100 lots being placed on the market.

The first structure being built on the site is the Sales and Information Centre. This is due to be completed by April.

Ecco Ripley Development Manager, Frank Galvin said the building’s frame is made from glue-laminated timber and was engineered offsite at a factory in NSW. The highly durable and sustainable frame would last for generations.

“Because of the frame design, it was able to be assembled onsite in just 4 hours,” he said.

“Now that the frame is up, Sekisui House construction team will be spending the next few months completing the remainder of the building.”

“The sales and information centre will also feature geo-thermal air

conditioning which aims to reduce air conditioning energy by up to 60% as well as solar power and a rainwater tank. We’ve chosen the triple-electro coated metal joint framing system because of its durability, its sustainability credentials and to demonstrate our Sekisui House innovation.”

The Sekisui Ripley Valley development is 194 hectares and will eventually house 4,000 dwellings with home owners being able to choose between the Japanese design or a traditional bricks and mortar home.

Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale welcomed the achievement.

“It is fantastic to not only have construction underway in the Ripley Valley, but the innovation being used is tremendous,” he said.

“This is the first time such technology has been used in Australia and the frame and joints designed by Sekisui House will lead the way in the development of the Ripley Valley growth corridor.”

First Structure Under Construction

Source: Queensland Times Newspaper

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Source: The Thorns of Ipswich: George and Jane a pioneering family who arrived in ‘Limestone’ in 1839, Margaret Nicol, April 2013

George Thorn is often affectionately referred to as the Father of Ipswich. He was born on 11 April 1806, the third son of Simon and Elizabeth Thorn in Stockbridge Hampshire, England.

In 1826, at the age of 19, George joined the army. In 1832, everything changed for George when his regiment was sent to Australia. George obtained his discharge when his regiment was transferred to India in June 1837. Almost immediately, he was appointed to the position of Superintendent of Horses with the New South Wales Colonial Government in Sydney.

George married Jane Handcock on 2 November 1837.

In 1839, George accepted the post of Superintendent of the convict settlement at Limestone Station which ran cattle and sheep. Crops were grown at nearby Ploughed Station (later known as The Grange and The Racecourse) which was also under George’s superintendence.

George and Jane, with their infant son George Jnr, were the first white family to settle in Limestone. Jane was the first free white woman in Ipswich. They lived in a brick cottage, thatched with straw, close to the Bremer River, and close to their last home ‘Claremont’. The exact location of this first dwelling house in Ipswich has given rise to many discussions in modern times. Reliable authorities state that the site of the cottage was within a short distance of Claremont, in which the Thorns lived later for many years. Claremont is Ipswich’s oldest building and stands today as a private residence.

The Thorns had seven sons and three daughters, with one son dying in infancy. Four of their six sons served in the Queensland Parliament, following their father who served

in the first Legislative Assembly of Queensland.

Claremont was the scene of many balls and the centre for many fox hunts and social activity.

As Ipswich grew, George’s energy and foresight made him wealthy and the family became important in Queensland.

In 1856, George served as a member of the Ipswich Hospital committee.

From 1860 – 1861, George Thorn was a member of the first Queensland Parliament as the member for West Moreton.

In 1861, George was one of the first trustees of the School of Arts.

George Thorn From 1862 – 1865, George was elected and served as an Alderman on the Ipswich City Council.

In 1863, the Ipswich Grammar School was established and George was one of the first trustees. His son, John was one of the first students.

George also helped to establish:-

• the Anglican Church;

• Ipswich railway;

• Botanic Gardens;

• North Australian Club;

• the racing club; and

• the Queensland Pastoral and Agricultural Society.

George Thorn died on 28 April 1876 at the age of 70. The death certificate states that the cause of death was a fracture of the thigh bone and an associated bed sore. He also suffered from severe bronchitis.

The Thorn family burial plot is in the Ipswich General Cemetery. It consists of a large stone obelisk surrounded by a metal fence. It is located near the main gate on Cemetery Road. George Snr was the first to be buried there in 1876.

George Thorn Snr (1806 - 1876)

Claremont

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PictureIpswich

With 2014 being the centenary year of the beginning of World War I in Europe, Picture Ipswich is looking for photographs of those who served overseas or at home and images of the Ipswich community during the war years.

Ipswich City Council Tourism and Libraries Committee Chairperson Councillor David Pahlke said Picture Ipswich was an online database website which provided a record of the city’s historical photographs and documents.

“Picture Ipswich now contains around 10,000 images, depicting everyday life and historic events of Ipswich during the past 150 years,” Cr Pahlke said.

“With more than 200 service personnel from Ipswich killed during World War I, our community has a strong connection to the conflict.“

“Picture Ipswich has many images of people who fought and returned, or paid the supreme sacrifice. “

“We would like to add more photographs that show the Ipswich community during World War 1, especially of service personnel. “

“To see what images the Picture Ipswich website already has on the conflict go to www.picture.ipswich.qld.gov.au

“For those who have photographs of their relatives’ time in the war or images of how the Ipswich community helped with packages for overseas or coped with rationing at home, placing the images on Picture Ipswich will ensure a lasting record of Ipswich’s place in this world conflict.”

Members of the community with photos or print memorabilia can contact the Ipswich Library’s Digital Archivist on 3810 7272 or email pictureipswich@library.ipswich.qld.gov.au

The items are scanned and returned.

Images from the Great War Sought

Boys in Blighty - this photograph is of a group of Australian soldiers from Ipswich in England in 1916 Source: Picture Ipswich

PregnancyClubUpdateThe Planning and Development Department is still adding to the population growth of Ipswich.

Congratulations to Melissa Green and Lara Minion on their pregnancies.

Congratulations go to:-

• Benjamin Williams on the arrival of his son Connor Samuel (7lb 13.5oz);

• Sally Holznagel on the safe delivery of her son Baylin David (8lb 7oz); and

• Kylie Reynolds on the arrival of her son Jackson James William (8lb 3oz).

For those following the tally, the number of pregnancies for the Department since June 2011 is now 39.

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Source: Ipswich in the 20th Century, Robyn Buchanan, 2004

Ipswich people were very proud when the first program which appeared on Queensland television in August 1959 featured their own Hugh Cornish. Hugh had grown up in Ipswich where his father was Rector of St Paul’s Anglican Church and his mother was a well known Art and Speech teacher. He gained performance skills at an early age when he competed in the Ipswich Junior Eisteddfod, once entering 40 different sections in singing, speech and piano. After spending time in radio, he joined Channel 9, the first Queensland television station to open. He was later program manager for Channel 7.

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Well before commencement day, many people had already installed a television set and earnestly watched the test patterns. Sets were quite expensive and prices were usually quoted in old fashioned guineas, probably to make them seem cheaper. A 169 guinea set, for example, actually cost almost £178. A “Festival of Television” was held in the Town Hall to encourage more buyers and twelve retailers took part, setting up displays of different brands. Once TV had started, sets were often placed in store windows and left turned on for people to watch.

The actual first night received surprisingly little newspaper coverage, eclipsed by accounts of the visit of Princess Alexandra.

tests. Demonstrations were given to parliamentarians and journalists and on 10 April 1934, the first test transmission in Australia was made on the 5 metre wavelength. This was said to have been received at “a cottage on the outskirts of Ipswich”, possibly the home of Thomas Biddle.

The transmissions were very simple, consisting of still images such as test patterns, photos and newspaper headlines, but Elliott had proved the possibilities of the new medium. The tests ceased at the beginning of World War II.

As more and more people bought their own TV set and stayed home, local organisations suffered, for example Ipswich Little Theatre audiences declined, as did its active membership, and the final production of 1965 had to be cancelled. Many other organisations experienced similar problems and commercial cinemas were often declared to be doomed. It would be several years before a cinema revival took place.

This was not the first time Ipswich had a special connection with television. In the mid 1930s, Thomas Elliott and several friends including radiologist Val McDowell had obtained permission to use the Windmill on Wickham Terrace in Brisbane for experimental television

An Ipswich Face on TV

The latest designs in television sets from the local Russ Dore showroom when TV started in 1959. The sets were all comparatively expensive.

Families congregated in the living room to watch television.

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Thomas Shapcott remembers the impact of television on suburban life:

I can recall when television first came to Ipswich. Before then, in the evenings if you walked down any of the streets in Ipswich, you’d see people sitting on the front steps of their houses in the dark, perhaps listening to the radio, which would be just inside. A lot of people would go to bed very early – in many houses the lights would be off by 9 o’clock.

People had to make their own entertainment. My parents would occasionally have people over and they had to endure us playing the piano or singing. My older brother Bob had a flute and we’d give impromptu concerts. People would play card games, dice games and

things like that. My parents would play the latest game, Canasta, then perhaps a little later on, in the 1950s, Scrabble came in.

Once television came, people moved inside at night time. That grey, luminous light would appear in their front windows and those so called ‘living rooms’, which had never

been used except for funerals and important visitors.

It was two years after television was introduced to Queensland before my father finally consented to buy one, so we, too, ended up sitting in the inside living room, where it was hot but hypnotic.

The Grey Flicker of TV

Television Window, R T Edwards ca1981 Source: Picture Ipswich

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WhenLifewasSimple

Source: Ipswich in the 20th Century, Robyn Buchanan, 2004

Ipswich was a simpler place in the late 1940s and the 1950s, and most households were basic compared with today’s relative affluence. Immediately after the war, many families still used an ice chest instead of a refrigerator. The ‘ice man’ arrived daily at the kitchen door with a block carried in large tongs or on a hessian sugar bag thrown over his shoulder. Washing was still done in some households using a copper boiler, and it was considered quite an advance to buy a hand wringer which clamped onto the concrete laundry tubs.

Milk was delivered early each morning to the front door and the baker still arrived in a horse drawn cart. Cribb & Foote sent a staff member around to sit in kitchens and take orders for groceries. These would be delivered the next day right to the kitchen table. There were two postal deliveries each day and urgent messages arrived as a telegram, delivered by a boy on a bicycle. Many households did not have a telephone.

Many families also did not own a car and adults commonly rode bicycles to work. This was particularly noticeable at the Railway Workshops where a stream of bicycles came through town at knock off time.

As post war shortages gradually eased and greater prosperity returned, families in the 1950s began to purchase appliances such as refrigerators, washing machines and the wonderful new electric Mixmaster.

The food they prepared, however, was fairly unadventurous and choice was limited. The humble zucchini,

for example, was almost unknown in Ipswich and it would be almost 20 years before the influence of the New Australians from Europe and Asia had an impact on our food and cooking.

In 1961, only 22% of Ipswich women were in the workforce – a figure similar to that in 1901. Women received a considerably lower rate of pay for the same work, and usually had to give up their jobs when they married. This was obligatory for government employees, although some were re-employed on a temporary basis.

Religion had a greater importance in everyday life and most people attended church regularly. For a long time, there had been a subtle divide between Catholics and Protestants, rarely acknowledged overtly but always present. In employment, for example, Catholics usually worked at Beirnes while Protestants worked at Cribb & Foote. Marriages between Catholics and Protestants often caused stress in the families concerned. Fortunately, these rigid attitudes were gradually fading.

One of the most positive aspects of this era was its relative safety.

Cribb & Foote ca 1940 Source: Picture Ipswich

Max Horn with Central Ice Works Truck, 1940s Source: Picture Ipswich

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Stockings were a rare commodity during the war and were still considered a special purchase for several years immediately afterwards. However, instead of being silk, they were now the new ‘nylons’, introduced in America in 1940 and they were quite expensive. On the counter at stores such as Beirnes was a large inverted leg made of clear

In 1962, a 10-pin bowling alley was built in Brisbane Street. There was some controversy because the Council was willing to change its by-laws to allow it to open seven days a week. A recent local poll had come out in

favour of allowing Sunday sport, but bowling was seen as ‘commercial recreation’ and there was still a lingering problem with the concept of Sunday entertainment. Aldermen, however, thought that it would be ‘a healthy sport which would do much to help keep young people off the streets’. The bowling alley was popular for several years, but later closed and the building was used as an underwear factory. It is now retail and office space.

Precious Nylons

Bowling Allowed on Sundays

Silktex Stocking Display, Cribb & Foote, 1920s Source: Picture Ipswich

plastic. When a pair of precious nylon stockings were purchased, the assistant took them out of the packet, stretched each one over the plastic leg to make sure there were no snags and then re-packaged them.

Children could wander around where they wished and it was normal for two or three teenage girls to walk home at night from an event.

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LocalHistorySeminars

Recently, Council hosted 2 seminars (Planning and Research and Writing and Referencing) aimed to develop or increase the skills of individuals, groups or organisations researching and writing local histories about Ipswich.

Further seminars are planned with each seminar focussing on practical and easy methods used in local history and family history writing and publishing.

These seminars are conducted by professional historians and provide valuable insight into the four primary stages of writing a local or family history.

Participants will receive a handout based on each workshop topic.

Bookings are essential as numbers are limited. For further information, please contact Council on 3810 6256.

Venue: Barry Jones Auditorium

Cost: Free

Researching, Writing and Publishing Local History Seminars

Seminar Program:

8.45am Registration

9.00am Seminar commences

10.15am Questions and Panel

Discussion

11.00am Close

Seminar 3 - Formatting

Date: 1 April 2014

Facilitator: Toni Risson

Seminar 4 - Publishing and Promoting your Publication

Date: 6 May 2014

Facilitator: Toni Risson

Robyn Buchanan

Robyn Buchanan is a professional historian who undertakes specialised work in historic research and writing, editing and publishing of multimedia content.

Toni Risson

Toni Risson is an author with a background in the visual arts. She wrote her PhD thesis about Australian confectionary and published “Aphrodite and the Mixed Grill: Greek Cafes in Twentieth-Century Australia”.

TriviaQuestionQuestion -

When were the first traffic lights installed in the Ipswich CBD?

Answer -

The first traffic lights were installed in the Ipswich CBD in August 1961. The intersections where the traffic lights were installed included: Brisbane and Nicholas Streets; Brisbane and East Streets; Limestone and Nicholas Streets and Limestone and East Streets.

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