A member of the Glebe Heritage Preservation Group has questioned the Newcastle Anglican Diocese’s right to develop a historic paddock for housing.
Maitland City Council considered the church’s application to change the land’s rural zoning to residential last night.
“The land was originally gifted to the Anglican Church, it could be assumed, in the spirit of benefiting the people of Maitland,” resident and member of the preservation group Nerryn Bennett said.
Full article available at Maitland Mercury, April 8, 2014.
