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Slum clearances

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Devonshire Street Remodelling and Housing Scheme
Report of the Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs 1909
Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority
Boyce, Francis Bertie
'Don't worry. He only wants to spend 400 million pounds. But watch out when he says he's going to spend 400,000 pounds.'
Backyards, Exeter Place, Surry Hills 1900
Demolition of Exeter Place, Surry Hills 1900

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Slum clearances

Devonshire Street Remodelling and Housing Scheme

Slum clearance plan for the area bounded by Devonshire, Marlborough, Lansdowne, Belvoir and Clisdell streets in Surry Hills. Demolition of over 240 homes and businesses along the narrow streets began in the 1950s.

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Report of the Royal Commission for the Improvement of the City of Sydney and its Suburbs 1909

Report of the commission of 1908 which emphasised the practical issues of traffic, beautification, slum areas and housing reform, and the future growth of the city.

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Sydney Cove Redevelopment Authority

Statutory authority set up to manage and redevelop The Rocks area, and given most of the state-owned property in the area. Its plans for redevelopment were successfully resisted by heritage enthusiasts and the Builders Labourers Federation Green Bans. Much of its work was taken over by the new Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority in 1999.

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Boyce, Francis Bertie

Campaigner for old age pensions, slum clearance, women's suffrage and temperance.

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'Don't worry. He only wants to spend 400 million pounds. But watch out when he says he's going to spend 400,000 pounds.'

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By
George Molnar
Contributed By
National Library of Australia
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Backyards, Exeter Place, Surry Hills 1900

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a147102 / PXE 91/102]

Demolition of Exeter Place, Surry Hills 1900

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From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[a147105 / PXE 91, 105]

Urban change and planning