Heritage listing sought for former TEN site
Nunawading site at the centre of talks for redevelopment into 800 homes.
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The former Nunawading home of Channel TEN, site of Neighbours and Prisoner, is at the centre of a push to be redeveloped into housing.
The site on the corner of Springvale and Hawthorn roads is still home to Neighbours exteriors including the Lassiters site, originally built for the Holiday Island set. FremantleMedia also built new residence exteriors two years ago.
Whitehorse Council has approved 13 townhouses to be built on the site’s southern border, but the developer Bazem Pty Ltd wants to build 800 homes on the site.
It’s not the first time the site has been mentioned in conjunction with housing redevelopment.
The council is seeking a heritage listing for the property, which could be at odds with development plans.
The council says nearby residents will be consulted when the developer formally submits a master plan.
Source / photo: Herald Sun
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Melbourne is being strangled by developers building homes on every spare patch of land (if you can call timber & plywood boxes ‘homes’). Lifestyle and culture are being compromised in their efforts to cram more & more people into smaller & smaller spaces. In future, for realism, Neighbours could probably be filmed inside a portacabin.
I watched an Perfect Match episode there many years ago being filmed. Also it was 101.9 Fox FM’s original studios back in very early 80’s
There’s nothing heritage about it (built in 1964), except for the nostalgia of old shows produced there. As a building, it was a huge, great cavernous area, on a very large piece of land, divvied up into offices and technical areas – probably none of which survives. Was Studio B ever built, or used? As a building, it was less than interesting. 9’s studios in Richmond held far more interest, architecture and everything else-wise.
If it’s not being used, then I can’t see any point in keeping it. Who does it actually belong to these days?
My understanding is Global Television leases it to FremantleMedia.
I think 50 years counts as “heritage”. It was a bold development for that part of Melbourne which was just paddocks at the time. It still acts as a tourist attraction now for fans of Prisoner and Neighbours.
The Iconic ATV 10 Studios gave us many Australian TV Memories, Including Young Talent Time, The Comedy Company, Rove Live, Good Morning Melbourne, Matlock Police, The Box and of Course The Biggest Aussie Soaps Produced there Prisoner and Neighbours.