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space, as an "urban square". The golf clubhouse option was the
Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage preferred option, when it released a feasibility study in May 2019. The City of Bayswater rejected the clubhouse concept, which would have included a high density residential development on the site, and decided to terminate the joint redevelopment project in favour of investigating alternative community usages for the site.
236:, inside a large building made from wood and corrugated iron. The mixture was then sent through an extruder to make bricks, which were cut and left to dry inside the immense drying sheds. Once dried out, the bricks – which were already hard – were arranged in the kilns, covered with powdered coal, and
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Maylands Brickworks were listed as a heritage site on the State Register on 9 February 1996, and on the City of Bayswater Municipal Inventory on 17 June 1997. What remains of the site is generally in good condition, and are the original structures. Restoration of arches of the kiln was completed
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Operations ceased in 1983, with plans to demolish the site. Community opposition led to the brickworks being preserved, and the clay pits turned into artificial lakes (Lake
Bungaree and Lake Bungana). The site was fenced, preventing public access, and the adjacent land redeveloped into a residential
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