From the Maitland Mercury report:
The National Trust-listed Aberglasslyn House will lose its surrounding buffer zone if the council’s local environment plan is given the go-ahead tonight.
Maitland City Council city strategy manager Monica Gibson recommended in a report that the buffer zone, which the report described as a “development restriction around Aberglasslyn House”, be changed to a rural/residential zoning.
National Trust advocacy officer Tony Brassil said he was concerned about losing the buffer zone to a property of such overwhelming heritage significance.
Full article by Kate Morris avaliable at Maitland Mercury, 19 Oct, 2010.
