Hamilton South Garden Suburb
We’re working on a project in Corona Street, Hamilton today – this site is within Hamilton South Garden Suburb Heritage Conservation Area!
This area of Hamilton was developed in the period between 1913 to 1935 and follows the principles of Garden City Design. This urban style developed in Britain from the urban design ideas of Ebenezer Howard in the late 19th century. It gained favour in Australia and was used to lay out suburbs within Australian cities such as Haberfield and Daceyville in Sydney. Burley Griffen had used these ideas to design the suburban areas of Canberra in 1913. Another prominent architect and planner, John Sulman had a hand in the amendment of Canberra’s design in the 1920s and 1930s and was also responsible for the design of Daceyville. This same architect is responsible for the garden city form of Hamilton South.
Hamilton East has many of the same elements of other garden suburbs in NSW including a curvilinear plan form and main axial streets. The latter include Stewart Avenue, Parkway Avenue, Gordon Avenue and Dumaresq Street. This area was developed for housing following the release of the land by the Australian Agricultural Company.
Image source: University of Newcastle Cultural Collections http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/210241385