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The Haberfield Association

The Haberfield Association fosters community spirit and engagement in Haberfield, promoting local culture, heritage, and sustainability through events, initiatives, and support for residents.

🎉 Want know more about Haberfield&#39;s history and heritage significance? 🎉If you would like to know more about Haberfield&#39;s history and heritage significance, join local historian Vince Crow for a heritage walk through part of Haberfield, Australia&#39;s first planned Garden Suburb from the Federation period. &nbsp; Mr Crow has conducted walks for the National Trust of Australia &amp; the Historic Houses Association and is the author of a series of three books &quot;Tours of Haberfield: Past and Present&quot; Parts One, Two &amp; Three.&nbsp;This walk is based on Part two, all three are available for purchase at the Haberfield Association Stall at Haberfield&#39;s 125th Anniversary Festival on the day of the walk, or at <a fr-original-style="" href="https://haberfield.asn.au/tours-of-haberfield-books/" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">https://haberfield.asn.au/tours-of-haberfield-books/</a> Haberfield, in the municipality of <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.developmentcontrols.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/api/blob/Part%204.11%20-%20Haberfield.pdf?path=part-4%2F4.11%20-%20Haberfield%2FPart%204.11%20-%20Haberfield.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-color: currentcolor; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: inherit;" target="_blank">Inner West Council,</a> was Australia&#39;s first successful planned &#39;model suburb&#39;, embodying the then-evolving international garden suburb principles. Begun at the time of Federation in 1901, it predates British examples such as Letchworth (1904) and Hampstead (1907). This visionary social experiment was so financially successful that it helped lock in the great Australian dream of the quarter-acre suburban block with dwelling, which has dominated how Australians seek to house themselves.There are many reasons why Haberfield is significant at both a state and national level. It is more than the picturesque aesthetics of its streets, shops and single-storey houses, which, while predominantly in the Arts and Crafts and California Bungalow styles, cover the whole range of twentieth century architecture. Haberfield is a research repository of Federation-era architectural details, house layouts, utility provision, garden design and plant material, and the early planning of public infrastructure.Haberfield also has national social significance as a place where, from the mid-1970s, residents opposed the destruction of these same picturesque houses, and is an early example of community statutory management. The Haberfield Development Control Plan is regarded as an exemplar, with many conservation area management documents emulating it.

The Haberfield Association

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Haberfield Festival Heritage Walk. Sunday, 22 Nov.

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