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estates. The street layout was laid out on "garden city" principals, and the later HCV houses accommodated large families from deprived circumstances. The HCV built the last public tenanted houses along Beacon and Barak Roads in 1981. In recent decades the former working class social housing, built to alleviate the worst impacts of the depression, have become sought-after inner city accommodation for the middle classes, and houses typically sell for nearly $ 2,000,000.
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Garden City Estate
Guidelines (Formerly known as, and referenced in the Port Phillip Planning Scheme as the Design & Development Guidelines for the Conservation of Garden City) – These Are Advisory Guidelines to Assist Residents Maintaining Their Houses – May 1997 (updated
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semi-detached double-storey "Bank Houses" in six variations which all looked very
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had a claim over the land for port use. The State
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later. The
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162:Garden city movement
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